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great and lingering potency - have been washed from farm anf field into the Bay waters. Some authorities attribute the loss of (vegetation), both on the shoreline and submerged to the use of these toxic agents. The Mathias Program has charged the Environmental Protection Agency with the tasks of defining the problems of the Bay in useful scientific terms and of developing recommendations for action to reduce the sources of trouble. In addition, the program assigned to EPA requires them to investigate the overlapping, conflicting, and, at times, bewildering array of agencies which are working on various aspects of Chesapeake Bay
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