The governors of the 13 prefectures concerned have drawn up the each prefectural plan including the measures for the conservation of the environment of the Seto Inland Sea in July 1981. These are on the basis of the Basic Plan based on the Article 4 in the Law Concerning Special Measures For Conservation Of The Environment Of The Seto Inland Sea.
After that, a part of the prefectural plan has been revised in December in 1987 and June in 1992 to correspond to the alterations of several plans included in the prefectural plan. Moreover, because of the necessity of the amendments of a part of the Basic Plan, new prefectural plans of the 13 prefectures concerned through the recognition by the Prime Minister in August, 1997 has been drawn up on September 16,1997.
The number of municipalities concerned to the Law in each prefectures concerned is shown in Table 7-2.
|
Number of Total
(A) |
Number of Municipalitie Municipalities of Municipalities
Concered
|
Ratio to the Total (B/A)
|
||||
|
City
|
Town
|
Village
|
Total (B)
|
|||
| Kyoto Pref. |
44
|
8
|
14
|
1
|
23
|
52%
|
| Osaka Pref. |
44
|
33
|
10
|
1
|
44
|
100%
|
| Hyogo Pref. |
91
|
20
|
51
|
0
|
71
|
78%
|
| Nara Pref. |
47
|
10
|
19
|
10
|
39
|
83%
|
| Wakayama Pref. |
50
|
4
|
20
|
1
|
25
|
50%
|
| Okayama Pref. |
78
|
10
|
56
|
12
|
78
|
100%
|
| Hiroshima Pref. |
86
|
11
|
52
|
3
|
66
|
77%
|
| Yamaguchi Pref. |
56
|
13
|
30
|
1
|
44
|
79%
|
| Tokushima Pref. |
45
|
4
|
33
|
8
|
45
|
100%
|
| Kagawa Pref. |
43
|
5
|
38
|
0
|
43
|
100%
|
| Ehime Pref. |
70
|
12
|
40
|
10
|
62
|
89
|
| Fukuoka Pref. |
97
|
3
|
8
|
3
|
14
|
14%
|
| Oita Pref. |
58
|
11
|
32
|
7
|
50
|
86%
|
|
Total
|
809
|
144
|
404
|
56
|
604
|
75%
|
Note: made by the Association for the Environmental Conservstion of the Seto Inland Sea on the basis of the data supplied from the each prefecture (February, 1998)