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Item Homeport Story: An Imaginary City Gets Ready for a Hurricane(United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1971) United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThe Homeport Story is a minor work of fiction about a major, real problem in Atlantic and Gulf coastal communities - hurricane preparedness. Homeport was invented a few years ago by the National Weather Service of the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the resemblance between our model coastal community and dozens of other American cities is strictly intentional. Homeport is a model community because it did something about hurricanes, even though the town had not been touched by one in three generations. The citizens and leaders of Homeport read the hard lesson the hurricane teaches year in and year out: understanding and preparation increase the chances of survival; lack of preparation diminishes them. How Homeport achieved preparedness is the fictional result of educated speculation by National Weather Service personnel, and by their opposites in the Office of Emergency Preparedness, Federal Communications Commission, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, American Red Cross, Office of Civil Defense, and other interested organizations. Many citizens will ask why tax dollars go to prepare for an event which has not materialized in two years, or ten, or fifty. The answer comes not from imaginary Homeport, but from real cities like Galveston, Corpus Christi, Gulfport, New Orleans, Miami, Charleston, Wilmington, and the tragedies played out there. Anywhere along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts is Hurricane Country. As you read how Homeport got ready for its hurricane, think of your city, and of yourself. Could you cope with a hurricane? Could your community? Would you survive? We hope this publication helps you answer, yes.Item Proceedings of the Marine Minerals Workshop, March 23-25, 1976, Silver Spring, Md.(United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1976-09) United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThe Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) established an Office of Marine Minerals (OMM) in September 1975 as a focal point for NOAA's expanding programs in marine minerals. One of the first tasks which OMM set out to achieve was to determine and summarize all of the major marine mineral activities sponsored by NOAA to date in a logical array of categories. Summaries of these activities and a brief description of the individual projects upon which these summaries are based are found in these proceedings. Another task was to elicit from those highly involved in marine mineral activities throughout the U.S. their concerns about obstacles to marine mineral development and recommendations for facilitating the development of a marine mining industry. A description of these concerns and recommendations is also contained in these proceedings.Item Report to the Congress on Coastal Zone Management: July 1974 through June 1975(United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1976-04) United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThis report to the President on coastal zone management is submitted in accordance with Section 313(a) and (b) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-583) signed on October 27 of that year. The first year of implementation of the program came during Fiscal Year 1974 and is covered in the annual report for that period. The preparatory work is outlined in the Fiscal Year 1973 report. During Fiscal Year 1975, all of the 30 states eligible to participate, and three of the four territories, began first- or second-year development of their coastal zone program. This report discusses the Federal and State actions for this period as states worked to meet the fall 1977 deadline suggested by the Act for submission of their programs for Federal approval and matching assistance to carry out the programs.