Description: This data represents the extent of Georgia's coastal zone, as defined by Georgia under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA). The Georgia Coastal Management Program was authorized by the Georgia General Assembly with the passage of the Georgia Coastal Management Act (O.C.G.A. 12-5-320 et. Seq.) In January of 1998 the Program was approved by NOAA and became the 32nd state to participate in the national Coastal Zone Management Program. The CZMA was established to preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or enhance the resources of the nation's coastal zone. The zone generally extends seaward to the boundary of the Submerged Lands Act. The zone extends inland from the shorelines only to the extent necessary to control shorelands that have a direct and significant impact on coastal waters. Lands held in trust by the Federal Government have been included in this boundary unless otherwise noted, as accurately representing these could be erroneous.
Description: The location, description, and status of the ODMDS areas along the Georgia coastline were obtained from the US Army Corps of Engineers. An ODMDS site is a precise geographical area within which placement of dredged material occurs.
"Disposal Areass in U.S. waters" provides raster maps of the Disposal Areas designated by the Corps of Engineers for depositing dredged material where existing depths indicate that the intent is not to cause sufficient shoaling to create a danger to surface navigation. These areas are derived from NOAA's Electronic Navigational Charts. This service is a cartographic representation of marine source data based on S-57 data format and content specification. For complete metadata, please visit http://geospatial.gatech.edu/GCAMP/metadata/Ocean Dredging Material Disposal Sites.xml
Description: This data set represents the most recent changes for the Wind Development Planning Areas in the Atlantic. Wind Planning Areas in this dataset represent up to six different types of announcements within the US Federal Register that can be used to show the current status of an area that is being considered for Wind Power Development. Individual projects are listed by state below. Previous Wind Planning Areas that are now designated as leases can be found on the BOEM Leases Shapefile. Metadata for the leases can be found here. MassachusettsThe Wind Energy Area is located off the coast of Massachusetts beginning approximately 12 nmi south of Martha's Vineyard and 13 nautical miles southwest of Nantucket. It covers an area of approximately 300,672 hectares (742,974 acres).Federal Register notices12/29/2010 – Request for Interest(RFI)02/06/2012 – Call for Information02/06/2012 - Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement05/30/2012 – Wind Energy Area(WEA)11/02/2012 – Environmental Assessment(EA)06/17/2014 - Proposed Sale Notice (PSN) For more information: Massachusetts State Activities Home PageNew YorkThe New York Power Authority (NYPA), Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), and Consolidated Edison (ConEd) worked together to propose an offshore wind power project south of Long Island, approximately 13 nmi off Rockaway Peninsula. On September 8, 2011, BOEM received an unsolicited request for a commercial lease from NYPA. The area is approximately 32,832 hectares (81,129 acres)Federal Register notices01/04/2013 Request for Interest(RFI)For more information: New York State Activities Home PageNew JerseyThe New Jersey WEA is located offshore New Jersey beginning approximately 7 nautical miles (nmi) from shore and extends 23 nmi seaward. The area is approximately 139,104 hectares (343,732) acres.Federal Register notices04/20/2011 – Call for Information07/17/2014 Proposed Sale NoticeFor more information: New Jersey State Activities Home PageMarylandIn November 2010, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) initiated the leasing process offshore Maryland by issuing a Request for Interest (RFI) to gauge industry’s interest in obtaining commercial wind leases in an area offshore of Maryland. The western edge of the Call Area is approximately 10 nautical miles from the Ocean City, Md., coast, and the eastern edge is approximately 23 nautical miles from the same location. The longest part of the north/south portion is approximately 13 nautical miles and the longest part of the east/west portion is approximately 13 nautical miles. The entire area is approximately 32,256 hectares (79,706 acres).MD Federal Register notices11/09/2010 – Request for Interest(RFI)02/03/2012 – Call for Information02/03/2012 - Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement12/18/2013 - Proposed Sale Notice07/03/2014 - Final Sale NoticeFor more information: Maryland State Activities Home PageNorth CarolinaThe NC Call Areas are located in 3 sections along the NC coast. Call Area Kitty Hawk offshore North Carolina contains approximately 138 whole OCS blocks and 36 partial blocks. The boundary begins 6 miles from the shore and extends roughly 34 nautical miles seaward at its longest point. It extends from north to south approximately 45 nautical miles. The entire area is approximately 355,248 hectares. Call Area Wilmington-West offshore North Carolina contains approximately 6 whole OCS blocks and 9 partial blocks. The boundary begins 7 miles from the shore and extends roughly 11 nautical miles seaward. It extends from east to west approximately 15 nautical miles. The entire area is approximately 26,784 hectares. Call Area Wilmington-East offshore North Carolina contains approximately 51 whole OCS blocks and 15 partial blocks. The boundary begins 13 miles from the shore andextends roughly 28 nautical miles seaward. It extends from east to west approximately 21 nautical miles. The entire area is approximately 111,984 hectares.NC Federal Register notices12/13/2012 – Call for Information02/05/2013 – Call for Information (reopening of comment period)For more information: North Carolina State Activities Home PageGeorgiaBOEM has received and is processing an application from Southern Company for an Interim Policy lease approximately 3 to 11 nautical miles off the coast of Tybee Island, Georgia that would authorize the installation and operation of a meteorological tower and/or buoy.Georgia Federal Register noticesEnvironmental Assessment– April 1, 2014For more information: Georgia State Activities Home PageFloridaUnder the 2007 BOEM Interim Policy for authorization of the installation of offshore data collection and technology testing facilities on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), BOEM identified four proposed lease areas (PLAs) offshore Florida. One applicant, Florida Atlantic University Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center, has submitted an Interim Policy lease application for technology testing and resource assessment within three OCS blocks in PLA 1. Georgia Federal Register noticesRevised Environmental Assessment– August, 2013For more information: Florida State Activities Page
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Copyright Text: Stephen Creed and Christine Taylor Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
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Description: The MPA Inventory is a comprehensive catalog that provides detailed information for existing marine protected areas in the United States. The inventory provides geospatial boundary information (in polygon format) and classification attributes that seek to define the conservation objectives, protection level, governance and related management criteria for all sites in the database. The comprehensive inventory of federal, state and territorial MPA sites provides governments and stakeholders with access to information to make better decisions about the current and future use of place-based conservation. The information also will be used to inform the development of the national system of marine protected areas as required by Executive Order 13158.
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Copyright Text: NOAA Marine Protected Areas Center in joint effort with the US Department of the Interior
Description: The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The primary legal divisions of most States are termed counties. In Louisiana, these divisions are known as parishes. In Alaska, which has no counties, the equivalent entities are the organized boroughs, city and boroughs, and municipalities, and for the unorganized area, census areas. The latter are delineated cooperatively for statistical purposes by the State of Alaska and the Census Bureau. In four States (Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia), there are one or more incorporated places that are independent of any county organization and thus constitute primary divisions of their States. These incorporated places are known as independent cities and are treated as equivalent entities for purposes of data presentation. The District of Columbia and Guam have no primary divisions, and each area is considered an equivalent entity for purposes of data presentation. The Census Bureau treats the following entities as equivalents of counties for purposes of data presentation: Municipios in Puerto Rico, Districts and Islands in American Samoa, Municipalities in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The entire area of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas is covered by counties or equivalent entities. The 2010 Census boundaries for counties and equivalent entities are as of January 1, 2010, primarily as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS).
Description: This data set contains Continental Shelf Boundary (CSB) lines for the MMS Atlantic Region. The CSB defines the seaward limit of federally managed OCS lands.
Description: Coastal bathymetric depth, measured in meters at depth values of: -30, -60, -900
Shallow Zone (0-30m): Technology has been demonstrated on a commercial scale at these depths. Foundation types include monopile, gravity base and suction buckets designs.
Transition Zone (30-60m): Technology has not been demonstrated on a commercial scale at these depths but several small scale projects have been successfully installed and commissioned at these depths Foundation types include tripod, jacket and tripile designs.
Deepwater Zone (60 - 900m): Technology has not been demonstrated on a commercial scale at these depths but several pilot projects have been successfully demonstrated. Foundation types include spar, semi-submersible and tension leg platform designs.
Complete metadata
http://coast.noaa.gov/dataservices/Metadata/TransformMetadata?u=http://coast.noaa.gov/data/Documents/Metadata/harvest/MarineCadastre/OffshoreWindTechnologyDepthZones.xml&f=html
Description: Aliquots are generated from full OCS blocks by sub-dividing each block into 16ths and allow for more detailed boundary delineation in offshore energy leasing. The aliquots use a letter designation in addition to their parent protraction number and OCS block number (ie. NK-1802, 6822F). A full OCS block is 4800 x 4800 meters, while an aliquot measures 1200 x 1200 meters. Smaller, clipped aliquots are found along the Fed/State OCS boundary and along UTM zone borders. This dataset includes columns indicating the presence or absence of a GCAMP layer. All GCAMP vector layers were intersected with the aliquots to produce a feature count per aliquot. If the feature contained a quantifiable measure (length, area, quanity, etc), either the sum or average was aggregated to the aliquout. GCAMP raster data was aggregated to the aliqouts using zonal statistics. Cell averages, sums, and mins and maximums were aggregated.
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Copyright Text: Georgia Tech Center for Geographic Information Systems
Description: The National Waterway Network is a comprehensive network database of the nation's navigable waterways. The data set covers the 48 contiguous states plus the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and water links between. The nominal scale of the dataset varies with the source material. The majority of the information is at 1:100,000 with larger scales used in harbor/bay/port areas and smaller scales used in open waters.
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Copyright Text: The National Waterway Network was created on behalf of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Bureau of Census, and the U.S. Coast Guard by Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Additional agencies with input into network development include Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Maritime Administration, Military Traffic Management Command, Tennessee Valley Authority, U.S.Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Railroad Administration.