gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:51544 eng UTF8 dataset Office for Coastal Management resourceProvider 2025-05-15T19:16:15 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) geometryOnly Federal Consistency Geographic Location Descriptions 2024-02-26 publication NOAA/NMFS/EDM 51544 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/51544 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Full Metadata Record View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. information mapDigital These data represent state geographic location descriptions (GLDs). Section 307 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, called the "federal consistency" provision, provides states with review authority of federal actions in areas outside of the state coastal zone, which they otherwise would not have, for activities that may affect a state's coastal uses or resources. Federal license or permit, and federal financial assistance activities that are listed in state coastal management programs for an accompanying GLD are subject to state review. All listings and GLDs must be approved by NOAA. To support coastal and ocean planning and other activities pursuant to the Energy Policy Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Rivers and Harbors Act and the Submerged Lands Act. NOAA Office for Coastal Management completed NOAA Office for Coastal Management (843) 740-1202 2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston SC 29405-2413 coastal.info@noaa.gov https://coast.noaa.gov WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Office for Coastal Management Website NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page information pointOfContact asNeeded EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords 17.0 CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA place Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords 20.8 coastal management federal consistency jurisdictional boundaries maritime boundaries ocean planning theme Connecticut Delaware Exclusive Economic Zone New Jersey New York Oregon Outer Continental Shelf Pennsylvania Rhode Island Territorial Sea Texas United States of America place DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office of Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce dataCentre Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords 2017-04-24 publication 8.5 Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords GCMD Keyword Forum Page Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords information custodian MarineCadastre project InPort otherRestrictions Cite As: Office for Coastal Management, [Date of Access]: Federal Consistency Geographic Location Descriptions [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/51544. NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose. otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None otherRestrictions Use Constraints: For coastal and ocean planning otherRestrictions Distribution Liability: https://www.marinecadastre.gov/about/disclaimer.html unclassified NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA/NMFS/EDM 51544 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/51544.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. information crossReference vector textTable eng; US boundaries oceans planningCadastre -125.074299 -66.666667 25.58232 46.25 | Currentness: Publication Date 2024 Bureau Code: 006:48, Program Code: 006:055 false eng false Federal Consistency Geographic Location Descriptions 2018-02-23 publication https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/FederalConsistencyGeographicLocationDescription.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/FederalConsistencyGeographicLocationDescription.zip download https://marinecadastre.gov/data/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://marinecadastre.gov/data/ Marine Cadastre Data Registry download dataset Accuracy Compiled to meet 10 meters horizontal accuracy at 95% confidence level Completeness Report Under NOAAs regulations for federal license or permit activities at 15 CFR Sec. 930.53(a)(1), Federal lands located within the boundaries of a States coastal zone are automatically included within the geographic location description; State agencies do not have to describe these areas. State agencies do have to describe the geographic location of listed activities occurring on federal lands located beyond the boundaries of a States coastal zone. No known attempt was made to either include or exclude federal lands from this national GLD boundary. Conceptual Consistency These data are logically consistent 1. Data sets for Oregon, Rhode Island, and New York provided by the respective state. These data sets were used as provided, except as noted below for Rhode Island. 2. For Connecticut: NMFS Statistical Areas: extracted the six respective areas from the "Statistical_Areas_2010_withNames" shapefile. Long Island Sound: Extracted the 12m bathy contour (40ft. equivalent) and manually closed the line (between 10m and 14m contours). Extracted the 6m bathy contour (20ft. equivalent) and manually closed the line (between 4m and 8m contours). Used RNCs to create these contours in far eastern Long Island Sound, where the LIS contours in the source data were not included. Off of Montauk Point (eastern point of Long Island), the 12m contour was extended to the New York-Rhode Island border by a line extending from the furthest point east of the 12m contour, to the New York-Connecticut boundary, following a bearing generally parallel to the New York state boundary that exists to the south of Long Island. Fishers Island Sound: the geometry (in New York waters) was extracted from the "NAMED_WATERBODY_POLY" shapefile. Byram River: the geometry (in New York waters) was extracted from the "pwl" shapefile, excluding Kirby Pond. Little Narraganset Bay: the geometry (in Rhode Island Waters) was extracted from the Connecticut state boundary and the Rhode Island shoreline. Connecticut River: used Massachusettss "CENSUS2010HYDRO_SHP" feature class and manually extracted the river (below the dam in Holyoke, MA). 3. For Delaware, acquired supporting maps illustrating the GLD, via email from Delaware CMP. Using these maps and textual descriptions, extracted the necessary offshore lease blocks for the federal waters portion of the GLD. Clipped the seaward extent of these lease blocks with the 24NM line. The remainder of the offshore alternative energy portions of the GLD (in state waters) were extracted using a combination of the Submerged Lands Act's seaward boundary, a national shoreline, the OCS Administrative Boundaries, and COLREGS demarcation lines. The segments of the Delaware River/Bay were constructed using a combination of official state boundaries, maintained channels in Delaware Bay, a boundary of the Delaware Bay (excluding tributaries) from the New Jersey Department of GIS, and the RNCs (i.e. Commodore Barry Bridge). The non-native shellfish segment in the Chesapeake Bay was extracted from a combination of official state boundaries, a national shoreline, and COLREGS demarcation lines. Used centerline of the navigation channel in Delaware Bay to establish the Delaware-New Jersey boundary necessary for the creation of the GLDs for both states. This was suggested by Delaware, since no official boundary between these states in Delaware Bay had ever been agreed upon. 4. For New Jersey, the segments of the Delaware River/Bay were constructed using a combination of official state boundaries, a national shoreline, and COLREGS demarcation lines. Used centerline of the navigation channel in Delaware Bay to establish the Delaware-New Jersey boundary necessary for the creation of the GLDs for both states. This was suggested by Delaware, since no official boundary between these states in Delaware Bay had ever been agreed upon. 5. For Pennsylvania, the boundary was constructed using a combination of official state boundaries, a state of Ohio shoreline, and Office for Coast Survey's US-Canada border. The western portion of the boundary was constructed using a line that was parallel to the Pennsylvania-Ohio border at the origin of the GLD's southeast boundary. 6. For Rhode Island, erased the Ocean SAMP boundary with the Submerged Lands Act (SLA) seaward boundary, as directed by the state CRMC office. 7. For Texas, the Western GOM and Central GOM "BOEM Oil and Gas Planning Areas" features were extracted. These constitute the limit of the Texas GLD, as confirmed by the Texas General Land Office. 8. Added fields and populated according to data dictionary 2017-01-01T00:00:00 1. Download amended Rhode Island shapefile from NROC and the national GLD layer from Marine Cadastre. 2. Merge amended GLD to the national data set and populate attributes based on information for the Rhode Island CRMC. 3. Update metadata. 2019-06-13T00:00:00 1. Modified field names to better reflect the content per field. 2. Modified the symbology to illustrate state jurisdiction per feature. 2022-04-01T00:00:00 1. Acquire the new textual description from New York Department of State and update geometry using sources mentioned in the description. Sources included coordinates, the 70-meter bathymetric contour, the Submerged Lands Act boundary, OCS lease blocks, NMFS statistical areas, and vessel routing measures (Barnegat to Ambrose Traffic Lane). 2. Amend new feature to national data set and populate attributes accordingly. 3. Change the length of the "geographicLocationDescription" field from 1,664 characters to 4,096 characters. 4. Check geometry and repair as needed. 2024-02-01T00:00:00 Connecticut DEEP (Connecticut_State_shp) Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection ftp://ftp.state.ct.us/pub/dep/gis/shapefile_format_zip/Connecticut_State_shp.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-27 Connecticut DEEP (LIS_Bathymetry_shp) Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection ftp://ftp.state.ct.us/pub/dep/gis/shapefile_format_zip/LIS_Bathymetry_shp.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-26 Connecticut DEEP (Named_Waterbody_shp) Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection ftp://ftp.state.ct.us/pub/dep/gis/shapefile_format_zip/Named_Waterbody_shp.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-21 GIS.NY.GOV (NYS_Civil_Boundaries) New York State GIS http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/fileserver/?DSID=927&file=NYS_Civil_Boundaries.gdb.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-08-03 GIS.NY.GOV (pwl) New York State GIS http://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/fileserver/?DSID=1117&file=pwl.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-27 Source Contribution: Provided boundary for the 2018 Rhode Island GLD amendment, used for July 2019 update. GLD_2018_polygon 2019-06-12 publication Northeast Regional Ocean Council http://www.crmc.ri.gov/windenergy/overview/GLD_2018_polygon.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Online Linkage URL where the source data were originally accessed. information originator 2018 MarineCadastre.gov (ATL_BLKCLIP) MarineCadastre.gov http://www.boem.gov/Oil-and-Gas-Energy-Program/Mapping-and-Data/ATL_BLKCLIP(3).aspx WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-14 MarineCadastre.gov (ATL_SLA) MarineCadastre.gov http://www.boem.gov/Oil-and-Gas-Energy-Program/Mapping-and-Data/ATL_SLA(3).aspx WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-14 MarineCadastre.gov (Atl_admn) MarineCadastre.gov http://www.boem.gov/uploadedFiles/BOEM/Oil_and_Gas_Energy_Program/Mapping_and_Data/Administrative_Boundaries/Atl_admn.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-14 MarineCadastre.gov (COLREGSDemarcationLines) MarineCadastre.gov ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/MSP/COLREGSDemarcationLines.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-28 MarineCadastre.gov (USMaritimeLimitsAndBoundariesSHP) MarineCadastre.gov https://maritimeboundaries.noaa.gov/downloads/USMaritimeLimitsAndBoundariesSHP.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-14 Source Contribution: Provided data for the Barnegat to Ambrose Traffic Lane MarineCadastre.gov (VesselRoutingMeasure.zip) MarineCadastre.gov https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/VesselRoutingMeasure.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information publisher 2023-09-30 MarineCadastre.gov (maintainedchannels) MarineCadastre.gov https://encdirect.noaa.gov/theme_layers/data/coastal_maintained_channels/maintainedchannels.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2018-01-16 MarineCadastre.gov (planarea) MarineCadastre.gov https://www.data.boem.gov/Mapping/Files/planarea.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-10-04 MassGIS (CENSUS2010HYDRO_SHP) Massachusetts GIS http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/datalayers/census2010.html WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-11-14 NJ Geographic Information Network (bounds_nj_shp) New Jersey Geographic Information Network https://njgin.state.nj.us/oit/gis/download/bounds_nj_shp.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-28 NMFS Statistical Areas (NEFSC_GIS.zip) National Marine Fisheries Service https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/map/greater-atlantic-region-statistical-areas WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information originator 2023-09-30 NarragansettBay.org (mbounds_samp) NarragansettBay.org http://www.narrbay.org/d_projects/OceanSAMP/Downloads/mbounds_samp.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-12 New York GIG (NewYork_GLD) New York Geographic Information Gateway http://opdgig.dos.ny.gov/#/search/browse WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-07-26 Northeast Fisheries Science Center (Statistical_Areas_2010_withNames) Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NEFSC ftp://ftp.nefsc.noaa.gov/pub/gis/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-27 Ohio TIMS (REFER_COUNTY) State of Ohio Department of Transportation https://gis.dot.state.oh.us/tims/Data/Download WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-07-17 Oregon Coastal Atlas (AdminBounds_DLCD_GLD_OregonWaters) Oregon Coastal Atlas http://www.coastalatlas.net/downloads/shapes/AdminBounds_DLCD_GLD_OregonWaters.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-15 Source Contribution: Superseded by the geospatial data provided by NROC ("GLD_2018_polygon") to make the Rhode Island update published in July 2019. Rhode Island RIGIS (shorelines89) Rhode Island GIS http://data.rigis.org/bnd/shoreline89.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information originator 2017-11-27 State of Delaware (StateOutline_area) State of Delaware http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/Pages/Portal.aspx WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-12-12 U.S. Maritime Limits & Boundaries (USMaritimeLimitsAndBoundariesSHP) MarineCadastre.gov https://maritimeboundaries.noaa.gov/downloads/USMaritimeLimitsAndBoundariesSHP.zip WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information 2017-06-14 Source Contribution: Provided data for the 70-meter bathymetric contour USGS Bathymetric Contours for East Coast (BathymetricContours.zip) United States Geological Survey https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/54d27174e4b04bf8a8a4dcc1 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Source Citation URL Source Citation URL information publisher 2013