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Item Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program - Program Development and Approval Guidance(United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1993-01) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of WaterThis document is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Program Development and Approval Guidance for state Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Programs (coastal nonpoint programs) developed under section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990 (CZARA). This document should be read in conjunction with EPA's Guidance Specifying Management Measures for Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters, which is discussed below. Section 6217 requires states to establish coastal nonpoint programs, which must be approved by both NOAA and EPA. Once approved, the coastal nonpoint programs will be implemented through changes to the state nonpoint source pollution program approved by EPA under section 319 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and through changes of the state coastal zone management program approved by NOAA under section 306 of the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA). Beginning in fiscal year 1996, states that fail to submit an approvable coastal nonpoint program to NOAA and EPA face statutory reductions in Federal funds awarded under both section 306 of the CZMA and section 319 of the CWA. The statute and legislative history indicate that the central purpose of section 6217 is to strengthen the links between Federal and state coastal zone management and water quality programs in order to enhance state and local efforts to manage land use activities that degrade coastal waters and coastal habitats. This is to be accomplished primarily through the implementation of: (1) management measures in conformity with guidance published by EPA under section 6217(g) of CZARA, and (2) additional state-developed management measures as necessary to achieve and maintain applicable water quality standards. This Program Development and Approval Guidance sets forth NOAA's and EPA's interpretation of the statutory requirements for the state coastal nonpoint programs, and is intended to assist states in developing approval programs. The document first provides an overview of the legislative goals and requirements of section 6217. It then provides a description of the criteria that NOAA and EPA will use when reviewing coastal nonpoint programs for approval based on NOAA's and EPA's interpretation of CZARA's requirements. Finally, it discusses the program approval process established by NOAA and EPA. A decision by NOAA and EPA to approve or disapprove a state's program will be made on the basis of the applicable laws and regulations as applied to the specific facts presented by the program.Item Estuaries: Where Rivers Meet the Sea - Ten Ways to Protect Estuaries(United States Environmental Protection Agency, 2003) United States Environmental Protection Agency; National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNo abstract available.Item EstuaryLIVE! 2003 - Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey - September 26, 2003(United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2003) National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNo abstract available.Item EstuaryLIVE! 2003 - Padilla Bay, Washington - September 25, 2003(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2003) National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNo abstract available.Item EstuaryLIVE! 2003 - South Carolina - September 26, 2003(United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2003) National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNo abstract available.Item EstuaryLIVE! 2003 South Slough, Oregon - September 26, 2003(United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2003) National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNo abstract available.Item National Ocean Conference: Oceans of Commerce, Oceans of Life(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1998) National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThe United Nations proclaimed 1998 the International Year of the Ocean. As part of the ongoing Year of the Ocean activities, the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Navy co-hosted the National Ocean Conference on June 11 and 12, 1998, in Monterey, California. The purpose of the conference was to highlight the important role the oceans play in our daily lives and to raise awareness of ocean issues among the public and all of the key stakeholders: government, business, academia, environmentalists, and other nongovernmental organizations. The National Ocean Conference set out to focus the critical dialogue that must develop for our own collective national and global interests in the oceans for the 21st century. Almost 1,000 individuals participated in the conference at Monterey with nearly 1,000 more active participants at 33 conference satellite downlink sites across the nation. Thousands more viewed the conference over the Internet, and several television stations provided live coverage. As the first truly national meeting on the ocean, the National Ocean Conference was a historic achievement and an important beginning. It successfully raised ocean issues to a higher priority on the national agenda and began a serious dialogue among those who will help shape the future of the world's oceans. It is our hope that the issues raised at the conference will become part of a national dialogue on sustaining our oceans not only among policymakers and the ocean community, but also among our nation's schoolchildren and the general public. It is there that dialogue and action will guarantee the important balance that we must maintain, globally, for the use and conservation of our world's greatest resource - the oceans.Item National Strategy to Restore Coastal and Estuarine Habitat: Executive Summary(Restore America's Estuaries, 2000) Restore America's Estuaries; National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNo abstract available.Item Report of the National Workshop on the Concept of Optimum Yield in Fisheries Management(United States National Marine Fisheries Service, 1977) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; United States National Marine Fisheries ServiceThis is Part I of a report and summary of the National Workshop on the Concept of Optimum Yield in Fisheries Management, held in Houston, Texas, June 6-10, 1977, and co-sponsored by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Regional Fishery Management Councils. The workshop is divided into two sessions: a technical session on June 6 and 7, and a Council session on June 9 and 10. This report deals with the major points and issues which arose in the presentations and discussions in both of these workshop sessions. Part I of this report is organized into several sections: A general introduction, the abstracts of the presentations made in the technical session, summaries of the panel discussion held by members of the Scientific and Statistical Committees of the Regional Councils, and a list of questions and issues involving the concept of optimum yield which were abstracted from the workshop discussions. Part II of the report will contain complete records of the presentations made by the discussion leaders during the Council session, Donald McKernan's summary, an edited test of certain of the questions which arose in that session and their responses, and more complete texts of the presentations of the technical sessions. These items are the more time consuming tasks in summarizing the workshop and will appear later under separate cover. Parts I and II together will present a complete record of the entire workshop.Item Rip Currents(2013) National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationItem State, Territory, and Commonwealth Beach Nourishment Programs- A National Overview. Technical Document No. 00-01, OCRM Program Policy Series, March 2000(2000) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; ;No abstract available