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In 1990, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) initiated
the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), a nationwide
research, monitoring, and assessment program to analyze the status
and trends of various environmental resources of the United States
(Summers et al. 1995). Estuaries are one ecological resource component
of EMAP (EMAP-Estuaries). The U.S. National Biological Service (USNBS)
concurs with USEPA on the importance of establishing research and
monitoring programs to verify the status of the environmental resources
in the United States and to track changes over the long term. In 1994,
USNBS and USEPA created an interagency agreement to ...