Forging a Coherent Oceans Policy

The White House on Monday announced that it was forming a new National Ocean Council to try to make sense of the dozens of laws and overlapping agencies governing policy on oceans, the coastline and the Great Lakes. The new body, which will include 24 officials from various federal agencies, will not have to power to propose new laws or regulations. Rather it will set broad policy goals and try to referee between conflicting commercial and recreational uses of the nation's aquatic resources.

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