9686F0DC-570F-4455-B6B0-D2F393BB6159 eng utf8 dataset dataset Teresa Tran U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 IT Specialist - GIS 214-665-6787 1201 Elm Street Ste 500 Dallas TX 75270 tran.teresa@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-central website information pointOfContact 2025-08-22 ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification 2007 4269 EPA Region 6 REAP Sustainability Geodatabase 2011-06-28 publication Teresa Tran U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 IT Specialist - GIS 214-665-6787 1201 Elm Street Ste 500 Dallas TX 75270 tran.teresa@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-central website information pointOfContact The Regional Ecological Assessment Protocol (REAP) is a screening level assessment tool created as a way to identify priority ecological resources within the five EPA Region 6 states (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas). The REAP divides eighteen individual measures into three main sub-layers: diversity, rarity, and sustainability. This geodatabase contains the 2 grids (sustain and sustainrank) representing the sustainability layer which describes the state of the environment in terms of stability (sustainble areas are those that can maintain themselves into the future without human management). There are eleven measures that make up the sustainability layer: contiguous land cover, regularity of ecosystem boundary, appropriateness of land cover, waterway obstruction, road density, airport noise, Superfund sites, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) sites, water quality, air quality, and urban/agriculture disturbance. Each cell in the final sustain grid has a score of between 1 and 100 based on the average of the eleven measures. Cells with higher scores represent areas that are more sustainable. Cells with lower scores represent areas that are the least sustainable. In the sustainrank grid, the cells are placed into the following 5 groups based on the score: 1 (top 1% of scores), 10 (top 10% of scores), 25 (top 25% of scores), 50 (top 50% of scores), and 100 (all the rest of the scores). See the metadata for each individual layer for more detailed information. completed Teresa Tran U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 IT Specialist - GIS 214-665-6787 1201 Elm Street Ste 500 Dallas TX 75270 tran.teresa@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-central website information publisher notPlanned Arkansas Louisiana New Mexico Oklahoma Texas place EPA Place Names 2015-01-31 publication Biology Conservation Ecology Ecosystem Environment Impact Indicator Land Management Modeling Natural Resources theme EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus 2007-11-02 publication 020:070 theme Federal Program Inventory 2013-09-16 publication 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. EPA Public Domain License licenseUnrestricted https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html unclassified FIPS Pub 199 Standard Technical Controls eng utf8 Publication date true -109 -89 25 37 2005-03-01T00:00:00 2011-06-28T00:00:00 Robert Kirkland US EPA, Region 6 EDG Steward (214) 665-6798 (214) 665-6689 1445 Ross Ave, Suite 1200 Dallas Texas 75089 US kirkland.robert@epa.gov https://edg.epa.gov/data/PUBLIC/R6/REAP/r6reap_sustainability.zip file offlineAccess 630 am to 300 pm, M-F Send email or leave message if not available. resourceProvider https://edg.epa.gov/data/PUBLIC/R6/REAP/r6reap_sustainability.zip download unknown 2015-06-28