48903 Data Set Published / External 37232 MarineCadastre Project Completed 2016-05-11 The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was the first major environmental law in the United States and established national environmental policies for the country. NEPA mandates federal agencies to consider the impacts of their activities-including the issuance of federal permits, Federal funding, and other federal agency actions-on the environment, and to ensure that information about these environmental impacts is available to the public before final decisions are made. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) promulgates regulations that require agencies to create their own NEPA implementing procedures. These procedures must meet the CEQ standard while reflecting each agency's unique mandate and mission. Consequently, NEPA procedures vary from agency to agency. Source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-10352/pdf/COMPS-10352.pdf Date enacted: January 1, 1970 Codification: 42 U.S.C. Sec. 4321 et seq. Authority: U.S. Council on Environmental Quality To support ocean planning activities pursuant to the Executive Order Regarding the Ocean Policy to Advance the Economic, Security, and Environmental Interests of the United States, the Energy Policy Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Coastal Zone Management Act. Bureau Code: 006:48, Program Code: 006:055 Theme Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category boundaries Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category oceans Theme ISO 19115 Topic Category planningCadastre Spatial Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Theme maritime boundaries Theme ocean planning Spatial Alaska Spatial American Samoa Spatial Exclusive Economic Zone Spatial Guam Spatial Hawaii Spatial Northern Mariana Islands Spatial Outer Continental Shelf Spatial Puerto Rico Spatial Territorial Sea Spatial United States of America Office for Coastal Management Charleston SC Data Set None Planned citation, codification https://www.marinecadastre.gov/about/disclaimer.html U.S. Council on Environmental Quality, NOAA Office for Coastal Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Point of Contact 2016-05-11 Organization NOAA Office for Coastal Management NOAA/OCM coastal.info@noaa.gov 2234 South Hobson Ave Charleston SC 29405-2413 (843) 740-1202 https://coast.noaa.gov NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page Online Resource Publication Date -180 180 74.708840004 -17.555000002 Discrete 2016 No Yes No No No Geometry Only Yes Geographic 2D EPSG:4269 NAD83 North American Datum 1983 GRS 1980 6378137 298.257222101 1 Geodetic Latitude Lat degree north 1 Geodetic Latitude Lat degree north 2 Geodetic Longitude Lon degree east 2 Geodetic Longitude Lon degree east Unclassified None For coastal and ocean planning https://marinecadastre.gov/data/ Marine Cadastre Data Registry https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct.zip 2016-05-11 Date that the source FGDC record was last modified. 2017-11-14 Converted from FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using 'fgdc_to_inport_xml.pl' script. Contact Tyler Christensen (NOS) for details. 2018-02-08 Partial upload of Positional Accuracy fields only. Untested Compiled to meet 10 meters horizontal accuracy at 95% confidence level Untested These data are logically consistent Binational Features for the United States and Mexico Border Region Department of the Interior (DOI), United States Geological Survey (USGS) 2006-01-01 Discrete 2006 http://txpub.usgs.gov/BEHI/Data_download/Boundaries_Layers/International_Boundary.zip US/Mexico international boundary | Type of Source Media: online U.S. Maritime Limits and Boundaries Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office for Coast Survey (OCS) 2013-09-13 Discrete 2013-09-13 https://maritimeboundaries.noaa.gov/downloads/USMaritimeLimitsAndBoundariesSHP.zip National boundary of the Exclusive Economic Zone and equivalent boundaries | Source Geospatial Form: vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online 1 1. The National Environmental Policy Act's geographic coverage was developed from two existing data sets: (A) OCS's U.S. Maritime Limits and Boundaries shapefile (EEZ and equivalent boundary), and (B) USGS's US/Mexico international boundary. 2. Where boundaries from the two data sources intersected in Texas and California, boundaries were cut accordingly so that no ArcGIS "dangles" remained. 3. Where boundaries in the Pacific Ocean crossed the International Date Line, the single part polylines were manually closed within an edit session. 4. Topology errors were addressed, which included two errors in southern Alaska and two errors in the Gulf of Mexico (within the OCS data). 5. The national polyline (including Alaska, Hawaii, and all U.S. territories) was converted to a polygon. 6. Added fields and populated accordingly. 2016-01-01T00:00:00 gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:48903 Anne Ball 2017-11-14T15:56:09 Jesse Brass 2026-01-30T15:51:17 2026-01-30 Office for Coastal Management OCM 1002 Public No No 2026-01-30 1 Year 2027-01-30