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    • EPA Office of Water (OW): Beaches NHDPlus Indexed Dataset

    Metadata Updated: October 15, 2024

    The Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Program focuses on the following five areas to meet the goals of improving public health and environmental protection for beach goers and providing the public with information about the quality of their beach water: strengthening beach standards and testing, providing faster laboratory test methods-predicting pollution, investing in health and methods research, informing the public. Under the BEACH Act Grant Program states (including tribes and territories) are required to submit their beach monitoring (water quality), notification (advisory and closing), and beach location data to EPA.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date June 17, 2021
    Metadata Created Date October 14, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date October 15, 2024
    Reference Date(s) June 24, 2016 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update continual

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date June 17, 2021
    Metadata Created Date October 14, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date October 15, 2024
    Reference Date(s) June 24, 2016 (publication)
    Responsible Party U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid {4A2F897E-E1E4-453E-9A29-674A520E4B92}
    Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff ["Water"]
    Access Constraints Use Constraints: None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated., Access Constraints: None.
    Bbox East Long -64
    Bbox North Lat 50
    Bbox South Lat 17
    Bbox West Long -160
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update continual
    Harvest Object Id de1eab6e-2ffc-46eb-98d4-97f1fc95f912
    Harvest Source Id 9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
    Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
    Licence https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
    Licence Url https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
    Lineage This lineage was generated by the FGDC CSDGM to 19139 transformation
    Metadata Language eng; USA
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-160.0, 17.0], [-64.0, 17.0], [-64.0, 50.0], [-160.0, 50.0], [-160.0, 17.0]]]}
    Progress underDevelopment
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True

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