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PART 2BLUEPRINT FOR CHANGE:A NEW NATIONAL OCEANPOLICY FRAMEWORKCHAPTER 4ENHANCING OCEAN LEADERSHIP AND COORDINATION.............................76CHAPTER 5ADVANCING A REGIONAL APPROACH.....................................................................86CHAPTER 6COORDINATING MANAGEMENT IN FEDERAL WATERS .................................98CHAPTER 7STRENGTHENING THE FEDERAL AGENCY STRUCTURE..............................108
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FINAL REPORTAN OCEAN BLUEPRINTFOR T
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THE UNITED STATES IS AN OCEAN NATIO
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1120 20TH STREET, NW • SUITE 200
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U.S. COMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICYChai
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Shirley A. Pomponi, Ph.D.President
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSAn effort of this m
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CHAPTER 3SETTING THE NATION’S SIG
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PART IVLIVING ON THE EDGE: ECONOMIC
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Periodic Review and Modification...
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Expanding Research and Education ..
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CHAPTER 26ACHIEVING A SUSTAINED, IN
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Index to the Recommendations ......
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LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLESFigure 1.
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LIST OF BOXESBox 1.1 Defining Coast
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PHOTOGRAPH IDENTIFICATIONAND CREDIT
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The Value of the Oceans and CoastsA
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The message from both experts and t
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Guiding PrinciplesThe Commi
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appropriate national policies, and
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Based on an improved understanding
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Figure ES.5 Many Different Platform
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Figure ES.6 U.S. Students Fall Behi
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ciated with coastal population and
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To ensure good coordination, the In
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liferation of federal and state pro
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Preserving Coral Reefs and Other Co
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Page 68 and 69: CHAPTER 1RECOGNIZING OCEAN ASSETSAN
Page 70 and 71: Figure 1.2 The Value of the CoastsJ
Page 72 and 73: Box 1.1 Defining Coastal AreasThe c
Page 74 and 75: Figure 1.4 The Shift from Goods to
Page 76 and 77: Box 1.2 The “Fourth Seacoast”
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Page 82 and 83: One of the most immediate phenomena
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Page 86 and 87: CHAPTER 2UNDERSTANDING THE PASTTO S
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Page 90 and 91: The legislation was prompted by the
Page 92 and 93: The architects of ocean-related pro
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Page 100 and 101: USCOP File PhotoThe Commiss
Page 102 and 103: Figure 3.1 Large Marine Ecosystems
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Page 106 and 107: Figure 3.2 The Foundations of a New
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Page 120 and 121: Recommendation 4-6Congress should e
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Page 126 and 127: Box 5.1 Regional Approaches at Work
Page 128 and 129: Nature and Functions of Regional Oc
Page 130 and 131: Enhancing Federal Support for a Reg
Page 132 and 133: Figure 5.1 Alignment of Federal Reg
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Page 139 and 140: Box 6.1 Swimming through Hoops: Est
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Page 143 and 144: NOAA Photo LibraryThis giant kelp f
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Page 148 and 149: The complexity of the current polic
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Page 154 and 155: Table 7.1 Thirty Years of Proposals
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Page 160 and 161: CHAPTER 8PROMOTING LIFELONGOCEAN ED
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Crosscutting ThemesWhile this chapt
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The coordination activities describ
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Education and Sustainable Developme
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each specialists to study marine an
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Nonetheless, while the NSES do not
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Box 8.2 COOL Professional Developme
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Engaging Underrepresented and Under
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Recommendation 8-10The National Oce
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ences beyond the research arena. St
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Box 8.6 NOAA’s National Marine Sa
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References1 Belden, Russonello, & S
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CHAPTER 9MANAGING COASTS ANDTHEIR W
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The pattern of coastal growth—oft
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Box 9.3 What Is a Coastal Watershed
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nated, representing a variety of oc
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Box 9.4 Balancing Federal Ocean Act
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consolidated into a central reposit
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CHAPTER 10GUARDING PEOPLE AND PROPE
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Box 10.1 Hurricanes Wreak Havoc Alo
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spurred Congress to provide substan
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The federal governmentshould elimin
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CHAPTER 11CONSERVING AND RESTORINGC
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acquisition and easements are often
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Box 11.1 Examples of Large-scale Co
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step. There remains, however, a nee
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Protecting the Nation’s Wetlands:
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CHAPTER 12MANAGING SEDIMENTAND SHOR
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Figure 12.1 Dams Impede SedimentDes
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Developing Regional Strategies for
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of sediment (300 by USACE and anoth
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Long-term planning efforts for mana
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health of coastal areas. To be succ
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Table 13.1 The Leading Role of the
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Figure 13.2 Goods Traveling through
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coasts. One issue that may have spe
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Box 13.1 Federal Members of the Int
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tions. Similarly, in September 2003
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CHAPTER 14ADDRESSING COASTALWATER P
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Figure 14.2 Land-based NutrientsCan
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Figure 14.3 Changes in Funding for
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when total water volumes exceed the
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almost $1 billion per year required
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National Nonpoint Source Pollution
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Box 14.2 The Impact of Farm Nutrien
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impacts; and state and local govern
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Clean Air Act. In other words, the
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Collaboration at the Watershed Scal
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The federal government is taking so
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CHAPTER 15CREATING A NATIONALMONITO
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pling design and intensity, paramet
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Figure 15.1 Watershed Monitoring Ha
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that affect watershed, estuarine, a
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Box 15.2 Keeping Up With New Contam
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CHAPTER 16LIMITING VESSEL POLLUTION
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ment plans, the evidence of continu
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Port State ControlNations have the
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Figure 16.1 Most Cruise Ship Travel
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Recommendation 16-7The U.S. Environ
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Prior to recent international actio
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state, and port levels; resolving f
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coastal activities. Close coordinat
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CHAPTER 17PREVENTING THE SPREADOF I
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Figure 17.1 Great Lakes States Take
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Aquatic Plant Control Program, the
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Investments in new treatment techno
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• conduct a comprehensive nationa
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Recommendation 17-7The United State
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CHAPTER 18REDUCING MARINE DEBRISThe
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Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter
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tional materials on marine debris t
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Box 18.1 Abandoned Fishing Nets Cat
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PART VIOCEAN VALUE AND VITALITY:E N
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the expansion of U.S. fishing capab
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The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires e
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Recommendation 19-4The National Mar
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The lists of RFMC information needs
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Although the background and recomme
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confusion for fishermen and the pub
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Environmental Policy Act, the Admin
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Box 19.1 Dedicated Access Privilege
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Recommendation 19-16Congress should
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levels, the degree of cooperation i
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legal action. Enforcement difficult
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nomic costs to the fishermen and co
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a significant impact on survival of
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In addition to global and multilate
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Recommendation 19-27The National Oc
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CHAPTER 20PROTECTING MARINEMAMMALS
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NOAA Photo LibraryOverall, the larg
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successfully prevented species from
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The MMPA prohibits the taking or im
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Foundation, U.S. Army Corps of Engi
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and behavioral problems will arise
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ment data, make it difficult to eva
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CHAPTER 21PRESERVING CORAL REEFS AN
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coral reefs in the Florida Keys alo
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NOAA, Damage Assessment and Restora
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Recommendation 21-2As part of the n
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Recommendation 21-5The U.S. Coral R
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Figure 22.1 The United States Impor
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Administration, the U.S. Army Corps
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• include the development of a si
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CHAPTER 23CONNECTING THE OCEANSAND
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The oceans are thelast great fronti
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Table 23.1 The Bounty of the SeaThi
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Harmful Algal BloomsThe term harmfu
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Marine Bacteria and VirusesBacteria
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• developing in situ and space-ba
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indicator species does not provide
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CHAPTER 24MANAGING OFFSHORE ENERGYA
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Congress responded to this debate b
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Figure 24.2 A “Process Rich” bu
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Box 24.1 Offshore Liquefied Natural
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For decades, Congress has debated p
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Box 24.2 The Federal Consistency Pr
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Recommendation 24-2The U.S. Departm
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Conversely, there is no comprehensi
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1970s to the early 1990s that produ
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5 Richardson, G.E., et al. Deepwate
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CHAPTER 25CREATING A NATIONALSTRATE
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Figure 25.1 Proposed Structure for
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It is time for the United States to
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Box 25.1 Examples of Ocean and Coas
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ing enactment of the 1976 Magnuson-
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Coastal communitiesdepend on health
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typical. This type of funding is us
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acceptable progress. In response, t
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task of repeating surveys of the sa
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OTA occupied a unique role among th
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and technological capacity to devel
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Steps of a U.S. Plan (2000). The se
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nies, nongovernmental organizations
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Table 26.1 Proposed Core Variables
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Another gap is in the development o
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IOOS. The differences in missions a
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Strengthening Earth Observations th
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CHAPTER 27ENHANCING OCEANINFRASTRUC
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Maximizing Resources through Collab
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improve the prospects for resource
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Dramatic advances insubmergence veh
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The Ocean Observatories InitiativeI
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(MMS), and EPA, and indirect help w
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• The USGS Coastal and Marine Geo
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Creating Virtual Marine Technology
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CHAPTER 28MODERNIZING OCEAN DATAAND
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Table 28.1 National Civilian and Mi
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Coping with the Flood of Incoming D
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type of education was wholly inadeq
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Interactions between private compan
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Recommendation 28-5The U.S. Navy sh
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CHAPTER 29ADVANCING INTERNATIONALOC
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Guiding PrinciplesThe guiding princ
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Table 29.1 U.S. Participation in In
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Table 29.1 (continued) U.S. Partici
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Commission, Intern
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• Seamounts. Worldwide concerns h
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U.S. Scientific Activities AbroadIn
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PART IXMOVING AHEAD:IMPLEMENTING A
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coastal management: “NOAA should
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Table 30.1 (continued) Summary of C
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dination among federal agencies (Re
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ally over the next five years. Chap
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Under the new ocean policy framewor
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coastal resource treaty rights. A l
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CHAPTER 31SUMMARY OFRECOMMENDATIONS
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• creation of regional ocean coun
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Office on Ocean Observing (Ocean.US
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Environmental Protection AgencyReco
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Complete List of Recommendations in
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Recommendation 4-6Congress should e
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Recommendation 5-6The Council on En
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Chapter 8: Promoting Lifelong Ocean
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• performance measures—State co
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Recommendation 11-2The regional oce
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• an overall system design that d
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Recommendation 16-14In developing a
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Chapter 18: Reducing Marine DebrisR
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Recommendation 19-7The Regional Fis
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Chapter 21: Preserving Coral Reefs
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Chapter 23: Connecting the Oceans a
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• establish and maintain a single
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• coordinate federal agency effor
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Recommendation 29-8The United State
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APPENDIX AO CEANS A CT OF 2000
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Section 3. Commission</stro
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(H) Recommendations for any modific
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APPENDIX BA CRONYMS A PPEARINGIN TH
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MARPOLMEDEAMERHABMERPMLAMMCMMPAMMSM
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYMore than thirty y
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1. INTRODUCTIONAconstant theme in d
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3. TRENDS IN POPULATION AND HOUSING
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ties. From 1970-2000, the number of
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Major conclusions from Table C.5 in
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Figure C.6 Composition of the Priva
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growth in wages and output, while g
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The value of beach recreation Beach
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of freight. Expansions and improvem
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of a network among these and other
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Table C.3 Population in Coastal Tie
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Table C.6 Private Ocean EconomyOcea
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR ANDACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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APPENDIX DG LOSSARY OF F EDERALO CE
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Oceans Act of 2000 ................
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SECTION 2OCEAN AND COASTAL-RELATEDF
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National Invasive Species CouncilNa
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Clean Water ActCongress enacted the
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Farm Bill 1985—Food Security ActT
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National Oceanographic Partnership
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SECTION 4OCEAN AND COASTAL-RELATEDF
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Clean Water Act—Total Maximum Dai
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National Park SystemThe National Pa
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Proposed Structure for Coordination
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CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES ANDSUBCOMM
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• Subcommittee on Forestry, Conse
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APPENDIX GD ETAILED C OSTS A SSOCIA
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Detailed Costs Associated with Reco
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I NDEX
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ecosystem-based management,62, 66-6
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Convention on the Conservationand M
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value of oceans, 30-36ecosystem ass
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erosion, 40, 182beaches, 42, 44, 16
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coral ecosystem effects, 44,320, 32
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oil, 236, 246, 362-363science and t
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Magnuson-Stevens FisheryConservatio
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National Ice Center, 402, 424, 430N
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dredging, 181, 183, 185-186,187, 19
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in marine transportation,192-193, 2
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evenues from resources, 33,102-103,
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treaty/treaties (see also agreement
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oceanographic research,49-50, 375,
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