Identification Information
Content Information
Distribution Information
Data Quality Information
Metadata:
File identifier:
gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:48928
Language:
Language Code:
eng
Character set:
Character set code:
UTF8
Hierarchy level:
Scope code:
dataset
Metadata author:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Office for Coastal Management
Contact info:
Contact:
Phone:
Telephone:
Voice:
missing
Address:
Address:
Role:
Role code:
resourceProvider
Date stamp:
2023-01-25T18:54:44
Metadata standard name:
ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data
Metadata standard version:
ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
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Identification info:
Data identification:
Citation:
Citation:
Title:
U.S. State Submerged Lands
Date:
Date:
Date:
2016-09-14
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
Identifier:
Identifier:
Authority:
Citation:
Title:
NOAA/NMFS/EDM
Date:
inapplicable
Code:
Anchor: xlink: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48928 title: InPort Catalog ID
48928
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
inapplicable
Contact info:
Contact:
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48928
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
Full Metadata Record
Description:
View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset.
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
inapplicable
Abstract:
The Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. Section 1301 et seq.) grants coastal states title to natural resources
located within their coastal submerged lands and navigable waters out to three nautical miles from their
coastlines (three marine leagues for Texas and Florida's Gulf of Mexico coastlines). The Submerged Lands Act
defines "natural resources" to include oil, gas, and all other minerals, and fish, shrimp, oysters, clams,
crabs, lobsters, sponges, kelp, and other marine animal and plant life," yet expressly excludes "water
power, or the use of water for the production of power" 43 U.S.C. Section 1301(e). The term "coast line" is
"the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea
and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters" (43 U.S.C. Section 1301(c)). Some boundary
delineations are approximated, including areas in Hawaii, Alaska, and Washington State. The official
delineation of the Submerged Lands Act in these locations has not yet been established by BOEM. Please
reference BOEM's official Submerged Lands Act Boundary in these locations to determine where this boundary
is approximated and where it is official.
Source: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title43/pdf/USCODE-2011-title43-chap29.pdf
Date enacted: May 22, 1953
Codification: 43 U.S.C. Sec. 1301 et seq.
Authority: agencies of several U.S. coastal states
Purpose:
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.
Credit:
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Status:
Progress code:
completed
Point of contact:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Contact info:
Contact:
Phone:
Telephone:
Voice:
(843) 740-1202
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
2234 South Hobson Ave
City:
Charleston
Administrative area:
SC
Postal code:
29405-2413
Country:
missing
Electronic mail address:
coastal.info@noaa.gov
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
https://coast.noaa.gov
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Website
Description:
NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
Role code:
pointOfContact
Resource maintenance:
Maintenance information:
Maintenance and update frequency:
Maintenance frequency code:
notPlanned
Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:
Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT
Type:
Keyword type code:
theme
Thesaurus name:
Citation:
Title:
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
Date:
missing
Edition:
12.3
Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:
Keyword:
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Type:
Keyword type code:
place
Thesaurus name:
Citation:
Title:
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords
Date:
missing
Edition:
12.3
Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:
Keyword:
coastal
Keyword:
marine boundaries
Keyword:
planning
Type:
Keyword type code:
theme
Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:
Keyword:
Exclusive Economic Zone
Keyword:
Outer Continental Shelf
Keyword:
Territorial Sea
Keyword:
United States of America
Type:
Keyword type code:
place
Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:
Keyword:
DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office of Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Type:
Keyword type code:
dataCentre
Thesaurus name:
Citation: uuid: 9f0de6e6-428b-11df-9879-0800200c9a66
Title:
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
Date:
Date:
Date:
2017-04-24
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
Edition:
8.5
Cited responsible party: xlink: https://data.noaa.gov/docucomp/1edb41d0-428a-11df-9879-0800200c9a66 title: GCMD Landing Page
Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:
Keyword:
MarineCadastre
Type:
Keyword type code:
project
Thesaurus name:
Citation:
Title:
InPort
Date:
inapplicable
Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Use constraints:
Restriction code:
otherRestrictions
Other constraints:
Cite As: Office for Coastal Management, [Date of Access]: U.S. State Submerged Lands [Data Date Range],
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48928.
Resource constraints:
Constraints:
Use limitation:
NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or
misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the
responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Access constraints:
Restriction code:
otherRestrictions
Use constraints:
Restriction code:
otherRestrictions
Other constraints:
Access Constraints: None | Use Constraints: For coastal and ocean planning | Distribution Liability:
https://www.marinecadastre.gov/about/disclaimer.html
Resource constraints:
Security constraints:
Classification:
Classification code:
unclassified
Classification system:
missing
Handling description:
missing
Aggregation Info:
AggregateInformation:
Aggregate Data Set Name:
Citation:
Title:
NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP)
Date:
unknown
Identifier:
Identifier:
Authority:
Citation:
Title:
NOAA/NMFS/EDM
Date:
inapplicable
Code:
48928
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
inapplicable
Contact info:
Contact:
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/48928.pdf
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP)
Description:
NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort.
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
inapplicable
Association Type:
Association type code:
crossReference
Spatial representation type:
Spatial representation type code:
vector
Language:
eng; US
Topic category:
Topic category code:
boundaries
Topic category:
Topic category code:
oceans
Topic category:
Topic category code:
planningCadastre
Extent:
Extent:
Geographic element:
Geographic bounding box:
West bound longitude:
-179.229655
East bound longitude:
179.856675
South bound latitude:
18.85975
North bound latitude:
71.439231
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
Extent:
Time instant:
Description:
| Currentness: Publication Date
Time position:
2016
Supplemental Information:
Bureau Code: 006:48, Program Code: 006:055
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Content info:
Feature catalogue description:
Compliance code:
false
Language:
Language Code:
eng
Included with dataset:
false
Feature catalogue citation: xlink: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/49232
Citation:
Title:
USStateSubmergedLands
Date:
Date:
Date:
2017-11-16
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
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Distribution info:
Distribution:
Transfer options:
Digital transfer options:
Online:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
https://marinecadastre.gov/data/
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
https://marinecadastre.gov/data/
Description:
MarineCadastre.gov Data Registry
Function:
Online function code:
download
Transfer options:
Digital transfer options:
Online:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/USStateSubmergedLands.zip
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
https://marinecadastre.gov/downloads/data/mc/USStateSubmergedLands.zip
Description:
missing
Function:
Online function code:
download
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Data quality info:
Data quality:
Scope:
Scope:
Hierarchy level:
Scope code:
dataset
Report:
Quantitative attribute accuracy:
Name of measure:
Accuracy
Evaluation method description:
Untested
Result:
missing
Report:
Absolute external positional accuracy:
Name of measure:
Horizontal Positional Accuracy
Evaluation method description:
Compiled to meet 10 meters horizontal accuracy at 95% confidence level
Result:
missing
Report:
Completeness commission:
Name of measure:
Completeness Report
Evaluation method description:
Untested
Result:
missing
Report:
Conceptual consistency:
Name of measure:
Conceptual Consistency
Evaluation method description:
These data are logically consistent
Result:
missing
Lineage:
Lineage:
Statement:
missing
Process step:
Process step:
Description:
1. Acquired national shoreline/s from authoritative sources (NOAA, BOEM, and NGA) to use as the inland
extent of the Submerged Lands Act (SLA) boundary.
2. Acquired international borders (Canada and Mexico) from authoritative sources (OCS and USGS,
respectively).
3. Acquired the seaward Submerged Lands Act line work from BOEM (Lower 48 and Alaska only). Acquired
NOAA 3nm line work from OCS (via email) for Hawaii and those areas of Alaska that do not have a
BOEM-defined SLA boundary. (NOTE: some western Hawaiian islands have a 3nm line based on reefs,
rather than the source shoreline (via NGA) extents.) The Exclusive Economic Zone (derived from the
Energy Policy Act boundary) was used in places like Maine, Texas, and Washington state, where
unclosed polylines in the BOEM SLA occurred over open water.
4. Created a national polygon shoreline, using the various shoreline sources and international
borders. This was used as the landward extent of the SLA boundary. (NOTE: in northeast Alaska, the
BOEM shoreline and OCS international boundary did not intersect. Used the NGA shoreline to close the
small gap between these two sources.)
5. The seaward extent of the SLA boundary was generated in various ways, depending on the region and
the respective data available. The methods are detailed as follows:
6. For the Lower 48, manually combined the BOEM SLA boundary, the OCS US/Canada boundary, and the USGS
US/Mexico boundary. The Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) boundary was used where the BOEM SLA
boundary was discontinuous (Florida) or did not connect with other boundaries (Washington State).
7. For Alaska, manually combined the BOEM SLA boundary and the OCS 3nm line. Where different component
boundaries (polylines) did not meet/coincide, a line was drawn between the two at a perpendicular
angle, based on the bearing of the line segment formed by the last two vertices of the "more
official" boundary. For example, this was done in Alaska where the BOEM SLA and OCS 3nm lines did
not line up. In such a case, the connecting line(s) was derived by adding a line perpendicular from
the final line segment of the BOEM SLA boundary, per location.
8. For Hawaii, the respective features within the OCS 3nm boundary were extracted, as no published SLA
boundary previously existed.
9. Combined all seaward extents of the varying regions into one national feature class.
10. Combined the seaward and landward (i.e. shoreline) segment boundaries into one feature class, then
converted to a polygon. Before converting to a polygon, had to address 13 topology errors within the
BOEM SLA data, where very small gaps within the polyline existed. (Five errors were in Alaska and
eight were in the Gulf of Mexico.) These gaps were closed by creating a straight line between the
two end nodes.
11. Generated a Great Lakes polygon, using the NOAA medium resolution shoreline and the US/Canada
international boundary.
12. Visually inspected boundary extents to make sure they were coincident to respective data source
boundaries.
13. Added fields and populated according to data dictionary.
2022-10-25
14. Executed REPAIR GEOMETRY function to remove non simple features and duplicate vertex features.
15. Executed the INTERSECT function with a one degree reference grid.
16. Adjusted the field sizes to better reflect the actual size of each field
Date and time:
2016-01-01T00:00:00
Source:
Source:
Description:
Source Contribution: The official, published seaward boundary for the Coastal Zone Management Act. |
Source Geospatial Form: vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online
Source citation:
Citation:
Title:
Coastal Zone Management Act
Date:
Date:
Date:
2013-12-12
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National
Ocean Service (NOS), Office for Coastal Management (OCM)
Contact info:
Contact:
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
ftp://ftp.coast.noaa.gov/pub/MSP/CoastalZoneManagementActBoundary.zip
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
Source Citation URL
Description:
Source Citation URL
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
inapplicable
Source extent:
Extent:
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
Extent:
Time instant:
Time position:
2013-12-12
Source:
Source:
Description:
Source Contribution: The official, published boundary for the Energy Policy Act. This boundary was
used as an equivalent delineation for the Exclusive Economic Zone boundary. | Source Geospatial
Form: vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online
Source citation:
Citation:
Title:
Energy Policy Act
Date:
Date:
Date:
2016-05-11
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National
Ocean Service (NOS), Office for Coastal Management (OCM)
Contact info:
Contact:
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
ftp://coast.noaa.gov/pub/Legis-Atlas/FederalGeoregulations/EnergyPolicyAct.zip
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
Source Citation URL
Description:
Source Citation URL
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
inapplicable
Source extent:
Extent:
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
Extent:
Time instant:
Time position:
2016-05-11
Source:
Source:
Description:
Source Contribution: Delineation of the U.S./Mexico international boundary. | Source Geospatial Form:
vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online
Source citation:
Citation:
Title:
International_Boundary.zip
Date:
Date:
Date:
2010-01-01
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Contact info:
Contact:
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
http://txpub.usgs.gov/BEHI/Data_download/Boundaries_Layers/International_Boundary.zip
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
Source Citation URL
Description:
Source Citation URL
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
inapplicable
Source extent:
Extent:
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
Extent:
Time instant:
Time position:
2010
Source:
Source:
Description:
Source Contribution: The official OCS 3nm line, for Alaska and Hawaii. Received data via email. |
Source Geospatial Form: vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online
Source citation:
Citation:
Title:
OCS 3nm line
Date:
missing
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National
Ocean Service (NOS), Office for Coast Survey (OCS)
Role:
inapplicable
Source:
Source:
Description:
Source Contribution: The official, published seaward boundary for the Submerged Lands Act in the Lower
48 and Alaska. | Source Geospatial Form: vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online
Source citation:
Citation:
Title:
Submerged Lands Act
Date:
Date:
Date:
2006-01-01
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Department of the Interior (DOI), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
Contact info:
Contact:
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
http://www.boem.gov/Oil-and-Gas-Energy-Program/Mapping-and-Data/Alaska/fedstate.aspx
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
Source Citation URL
Description:
Source Citation URL
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
inapplicable
Source extent:
Extent:
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
Extent:
Time period:
Begin date:
2006-02-10
End date:
2012
Source:
Source:
Description:
Source Contribution: Delineation of the U.S./Canada international boundary. | Source Geospatial Form:
vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online
Source citation:
Citation:
Title:
USMaritimeLimitsAndBoundariesSHP.zip
Date:
Date:
Date:
2013-09-13
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National
Ocean Service (NOS), Office for Coast Survey (OCS)
Contact info:
Contact:
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
http://maritimeboundaries.noaa.gov/downloads/USMaritimeLimitsAndBoundariesSHP.zip
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
Source Citation URL
Description:
Source Citation URL
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
inapplicable
Source extent:
Extent:
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
Extent:
Time instant:
Time position:
2013-09-13
Source:
Source:
Description:
Source Contribution: Shoreline for the state of Alaska. Received data via email. | Source Geospatial
Form: vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online
Source citation:
Citation:
Title:
coastline.zip
Date:
missing
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Department of the Interior (DOI), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
Role:
inapplicable
Source:
Source:
Description:
Source Contribution: Shoreline for the state of Hawaii, and a small portion of northeast Alaska at the
border with Canada. | Source Geospatial Form: vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online
Source citation:
Citation:
Title:
shapefile13w.zip
Date:
Date:
Date:
2009-01-01
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Contact info:
Contact:
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
http://msi.nga.mil/DNCSiteContent/StaticFiles/shapefiles/shapefile13w.zip
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
Source Citation URL
Description:
Source Citation URL
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
inapplicable
Source extent:
Extent:
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
Extent:
Time instant:
Time position:
2009
Source:
Source:
Description:
Source Contribution: Medium resolution shoreline for the Lower 48 states. | Source Geospatial Form:
vector digital data | Type of Source Media: online
Source citation:
Citation:
Title:
us_medium_shoreline.zip
Date:
Date:
Date:
2008-01-01
Date type:
Date type code:
publication
Cited responsible party:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Contact info:
Contact:
Online Resource:
Online Resource:
Linkage:
URL:
https://coast.noaa.gov/htdata/Shoreline/us_medium_shoreline.zip
Protocol:
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name:
Source Citation URL
Description:
Source Citation URL
Function:
Online function code:
information
Role:
inapplicable
Source extent:
Extent:
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
Extent:
Time instant:
Time position:
2008
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