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companies working commercially for the gas and petroleum industry, cable laying operations, dredging, port operations, and geophysical surveys may, incidentally, come across cultural heritage information such as wreck sites.
G. NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
Essentially, this group will be amateur divers and possibly non-diving interest groups who have formed an association of some kind to promote or be involved in the sites. This is a very important and potentially power- ful group who can have immense effect on these types of programs. Such groups can assist with the fieldwork, monitor sites, help in management, work at the local level to promote preservation, and lobby at a political level. It would be an important part of a CRM program to identify this type of group and recruit their assistance or, if such a group does not exist, attempt to create one.
H. GOVERNMENT
The government management department will be the key organiza- tion with overall responsibility for underwater cultural heritage and this program. However, there are other government agencies that should be identified as having interests in this area. The greater the intergovernmen- tal cooperation in underwater CRM, the greater the public service profile the program will have. The State Museum of Western Australia has rela- tionships with the government departments of fisheries, conservation and land management, heritage, marine police, transport (marine), land admin- istration (survey), and the Navy. Such relationships need to be formalized and this could be achieved by creating an advisory committee (see Section VII.C).
I. ARCHAEOLOGICAL
The key members of this group are included in either the government management agency or at the national and international level in universi- ties and maritime archaeological institutions. The role of the archaeologist in such a program is to oversee the archaeological work. The CRM work can be administered by an archaeologist or by a person with administrative expertise. Whatever course of action is taken in the eventual program, there