Galveston Bay: a ceremony to designate Galveston Bay under the Environmental Protection Agency's national estuary program.

The Water Quality Act identifies seven major purposes of a Management Conference convened under the National Estuary Program: (1) assess trends in water quality, natural resource and uses; (2) identify the cause of environmental problems through data collection and analyses; (3) develop point and nonpoint loadings and relate them to observed changes; (4) develop a CCMP that includes recommendations for priority actions; (5) design plans to coordinate these activities with Federal, State, and local agencies; (6) provide monitoring to assess the effectiveness of the implementation actions; and (7) review Federal financial assistance programs for consistency.