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    • OCS Marine Minerals Lease Areas

    Metadata Updated: April 5, 2025

    The Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Marine Mineral (e.g. sand and gravel) Lease Areas layer is maintained by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), part of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Each lease area polygon defines an area where entities that have entered into or have formally requested a Negotiated Non-Competitive Lease or Memorandum of Agreement with BOEM can dredge sand, gravel, or shell resources from the OCS. Section 8 (k) of the OCS Lands Act (OCSLA), as amended by Public Law 103-426 (enacted in 1994), gives BOEM the authority to negotiate an agreement for the use of OCS sand, gravel, and shell resources for use in: (1) a project for shore protection, beach restoration, or coastal restoration undertaken by a Federal, State, or local government agency; or (2) for use in a construction project funded in whole or in part by, or authorized by, the Federal government. This dataset is a collection of active, completed, expired, and proposed lease areas under BOEM's purview. Attribution consists of OCS lease number, state, project ID, volume of material allocated, borrow area ID, leases status, and administrative chronology of the lease term (e.g. execution and expiration dates). Revisions to this dataset are made on a regular basis by BOEM staff to reflect the current status of OCS marine mineral leasing activity.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date June 16, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 5, 2025

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    Harvested from DOI EDI

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date June 16, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 5, 2025
    Publisher Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
    Maintainer
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    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=31849f4f0c9148a480fca5d1dffb092a&sublayer=0
    Data First Published 2024-06-10T06:45:13Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-28T17:14:17.230Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:06
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://datainventory.doi.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Source Id 52bfcc16-6e15-478f-809a-b1bc76f1aeda
    Harvest Source Title DOI EDI
    Homepage URL https://boem-metaport-boem.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BOEM::ocs-marine-minerals-lease-areas
    License https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -93.6099,25.6805,-74.0459,39.6882
    Program Code 010:000
    Publisher Hierarchy White House > U.S. Department of the Interior > Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 87f4f4bfa4e75310d7e6029261453973986d9ab97731c266f1ecde7303c1e9a8
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