PUBLIC LAW 102-567—OCT. 29, 1992 106 STAT. 4297

Administrator and the Under Secretary listing areas suitable
for intensive monitoring.

"(D) The Administrator and the Under Secretary, in Massachusetts.
conjunction with other Federal, State, and local authorities, Maine-
shall develop and implement multi-year programs of intensive
monitoring for Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays, the Gulf
of Maine, the Chesapeake Bay, the Hudson-Raritan Estuary,
and each area jointly designated by the Administrator and
the Under Secretary pursuant to paragraph (2).

"(4) INTENSIVE COASTAL WATER QUALITY MONITORING PRO-
GRAMS.—Each intensive coastal water quality monitoring pro-
gram developed pursuant to this subsection shall—

"(A) identify water quality conditions and problems
and provide information to assist in improving coastal
water quality;

"(B) clearly state the goals and objectives of the mon-
itoring program and their relationship to the water quality
objectives for coastal waters covered by the program;

"(C) identify the water quality and biological param-
eters of the monitoring program and their relationship
to these goals and objectives;

"(D) describe the types of monitoring networks, surveys
and other activities to be used to achieve these goals and
objectives, using where appropriate the guidelines issued
under subsection (c);

"(E) survey existing Federal, State, and local coastal
monitoring activities and private compliance monitoring
activities in or on the coastal waters covered by the pro-
gram, describe the relationship of the program to those
other monitoring activities, ana integrate them, as appro-
priate, into the intensive monitoring program;

"(F) describe the data management and quality control
components of the program;

"(G) specify the implementation requirements for the
program, including—

"(i) the lead Federal, State, or regional authority
that will administer the program;

"(ii) the public and private parties that will imple-
ment the program;

"(iii) a detailed schedule for program implementa-
tion;

"(iv) all Federal and State responsibilities for
implementing the program; and

"(v) the changes in Federal, State, and local mon-
itoring programs necessary to implement the program;
"(H) estimate the costs to Federal and State govern-
ments, and other participants, of implementing the mon-
itoring program; and

"(I) describe the methods to assess periodically the
success of the monitoring program in meeting its goals
and objectives, and the manner in which the program may
be modified from time-to-time.

"(5) CRITERIA FOR MONITORING MASSACHUSETTS AND CAPE
COD BAYS.—In addition to the criteria listed in paragraph (4),
the intensive monitoring program for Massachusetts and Cape
Cod Bays shall establish baseline data on environmental
phenomena (such as quantity of bacteria and quality of indige-