{9236FF63-FFC3-4843-BFA7-56D2566E7C58} eng; USA utf8 dataset Office of Water US EPA Headquarters 202-566-0385 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T Washington DC 20460 kramer.bill@epa.gov pointOfContact 2026-01-06 ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata ISO 19115:2003/Cor.1:2006(E) EPA Office of Water (OW): Beaches PRAWN Attribute Data 2015-02-04 publication 20150204 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC publisher US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water originator tableDigital 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. This dataset contains selected beach attributes for beach records spatially indexed to EPA's Reach Address Database. underDevelopment Bill Kramer U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water 202-566-0385 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. Room 6210-TT Mail Code 4305T EPA East Washington DC 20460 kramer.bill@epa.gov pointOfContact continual Conservation Ecology Environment Health Human Recreation Water theme EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus NHD beach BEACH locational data Beach Act waterbody beach data water program Beaches theme User United States place None https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.htm otherRestrictions Use Constraints: Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated. otherRestrictions Access Constraints: None. NO CONFIDENTIALITY FIPS Pub 199 Standard Technical Controls eng; USA environment health oceans -180 180 -90 90 2015-01-01 This is an EPA-produced data set. Additional information regarding this data set is available at: http://www2.epa.gov/beaches true Tabular Data unknown Office of Water US EPA Headquarters 202-566-0385 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T Washington DC 20460 kramer.bill@epa.gov distributor None https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/waters-geospatial-data-downloads download Download The URL providing direct access to the downloadable dataset. download https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/waters-geospatial-data-downloads Tabular Data National Extracts information dataset Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report Unknown Vertical Positional Accuracy Report Unknown Feature attribute data has not been tested for completeness. Feature attribute data has not been tested for completeness. Not presently available This lineage was generated by the FGDC CSDGM to 19139 transformation Attribute data extracted from the PRAWN system. 2015-02-04T00:00:00 otherRestrictions Metadata Use Constraints: {9236FF63-FFC3-4843-BFA7-56D2566E7C58} unknown 2017-02-04 This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2024-02-09T11:11:00 version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19139 transform. Office of Water US EPA Headquarters 202-566-0385 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T Washington DC 20460 kramer.bill@epa.gov pointOfContact