Managing Through Partnerships

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Managing Through Partnerships

• Ralph Cantral
• NOAAs Ocean Service
• September 5, 2003

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The Federal Role

• Identifying large scale themes
• Providing a central focus
• Developing guidance to create a consistent
  approach for partners to implement national, as
  well as state, priorities

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Coastal Zone Management Act

• NOAA has provided guidance for
• State coastal programs
• Program approval
• Coastal nonpoint programs
• Coastal zone enhancement
• National Estuarine Research Reserves
• Management plan approval
• Education, research, monitoring, stewardship

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Other NOAA management efforts

• National Marine Sanctuaries have developed links
  to coastal communities
• Marine Protected Area Center is undertaking an
  inventory and is identifying need for a national
  MPA system

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Recent NOAA initiatives

• CELP
• CSI
• CTP
• OPIS

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Coastal and Estuarine Lands Objectives

• Protect important coastal and estuarine areas
  that have significant conservation, recreation,
  ecological, historical, or aesthetic values, or
  that are threatened by conversion from their
  natural or recreational state to other uses
• Give priority to lands that can be effectively
  managed and protected and that have significant
  ecological value

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Coastal and Estuarine Lands Program

• Created in FY 2002 through the Commerce-Justice-St
  ate Appropriations Act
• NOAA directed to develop guidelines for the
  program
• Senate authorization bills introduced in 2002 and
  2003
• Appropriations language codified at 16 USC 1456d
  within CZMA section of US Code

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Appropriations

• 15.8M appropriated in FY 2002 directed to 22
  Congressional projects
• 37.6M appropriated in FY 2003, directed to 18
  Congressional projects
• Awards range from 400 K to 10 M most are
  approximately 1-2 M

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FY 2002 CELP Projects
States with CELP Projects
No CELP Projects
CELP Project Site
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Coastal Storms Initiative

• Purpose to lessen the impacts to coastal
  communities from coastal storms
• Cross NOAA Involvement
• Tied to CZM Programs
• Pilots in Florida, Pacific Northwest, and
  Southern California

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Types of CSI pilot projects

• Shallow water bathymetry
• St. Johns River circulation model
• Improved ocean and meteorological observations
• Ecological assessment of coastal storm impacts
• Improved prediction of coastal winds, waves and
  flooding

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Types of CSI projects (cont.)

• Risk and vulnerability assessment tool
• Outreach and extension
• Data access and standards
• Operational inland flood evacuation planning and
  response tool

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Expected Benefits

• More accurate storm warnings
• Increased evacuation time for populations
• Base for better planning and mitigation
  strategies
• Prevention of property loss or damage
• Lives saved

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Coastal Training Program

• An initiative of the National Estuarine Research
  Reserves
• Provides up-to-date information on coastal
  management topics to a variety of coastal
  decision-makers
• Partners
• State coastal programs
• State Sea Grant programs
• A variety of local partners

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Coastal Training Program (cont.)

• A host of topics
• Protecting cultural resources
• Using prescribed burns to manage coastal lands
• Assessing damages from oil spills
• On-site disposal system maintenance

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Ocean Planning Information System

• Built on state efforts (SORI)
• Provided a regional analysis tool for ocean
  resources and management authorities
• Established a framework for a national system and
  a base for developing new management tools

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Florida BlueWays

• Based on landscape ecology principles
• Identify hotspots and connectors
• Ocean and estuarine resources
• Management authorities and jurisdictions
• Human Use
• Adapt multi-agency efforts
• Partnership with NOAA to provide data and help
  develop program

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Performance measurement

• Coastal management programs need quantitative
  information to identify emerging issues as well
  as to determine whether management programs are
  being successful and to adapt management
  techniques.

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Performance measurement

• A variety of audiences
• Congress
• State legislators
• The public
• Coastal managers
• A wide range of indicators are needed to address
  the breadth of the CZMA

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Performance Measurement

• Purposes of reports
• To track the use of funding
• To identify progress toward meeting specific
  goals
• To illustrate the state of the coast from a
  variety of perspectives
• Environmental, cultural, economic

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Performance Measurement

• Federal role
• Develop a framework for a national system
• Provide assistance to states
• State role
• Set state-specific goals
• Identify information sources
• Report status of indicators

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The Future

• Focusing on Users
• Designing observing systems
• Analyzing data
• Translating for use
• Training decision-makers
• Governors need to tell Ocean Commission how
  federal agencies can be most helpful