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		<citation>
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				<origin>US Environmental Protection Agency</origin>
				<title>NEPmap (National Estuary Program Mapper)</title>
				<pubinfo>
					<publish>U.S. EPA Office of Water (OW) - Office of Wetlands Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW)</publish>
					<pubplace>Washington, DC</pubplace>
				</pubinfo>
				<pubdate>20120928</pubdate>
				<onlink>https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/OW/Office_of_Wetlands_Oceans_and_Watersheds/NEP_Boundaries/NEP_Boundaries.zip</onlink>
				<onlink>https://geopub.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NEPmap</onlink>
				<onlink>https://gispub.epa.gov/NEPmap/</onlink>
			</citeinfo>
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		<descript>
			<abstract>The NEPmap is designed to provide information in context with National Estuary Program Study Areas. There are 28 National Estuary Programs (NEPs) in the U.S.that implement habitat protection and restoration projects with their partners and submit their project data to the EPA annually. NEPmap contains that project data from 2009 to the present.</abstract>
			<purpose>This application is not intended to provide National scale data layers. As such, data layers have been cut specifically to NEP study areas and should be used accordingly. </purpose>
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			<current>Publication date</current>
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					<begdate>2009</begdate>
					<enddate>2012</enddate>
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			<progress>Complete</progress>
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				<themekey>boundaries</themekey>
				<themekey>environment</themekey>
				<themekey>geoscientificInformation</themekey>
			</theme>
			<theme>
				<themekt>EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus</themekt>
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			<place>
				<placekt>None</placekt>
			</place>
			<theme>
				<themekt>User</themekt>
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		<accconst>None.</accconst>
		<useconst>None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata.  Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated.</useconst>
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			<sechandl>Standard Technical Controls</sechandl>
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					<cntorg>U.S. EPA Office of Water (OW) - Office of Wetlands Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW)</cntorg>
					<cntper>Nancy Laurson</cntper>
				</cntorgp>
				<cntaddr>
					<addrtype>mailing address</addrtype>
					<address>1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T</address>
					<city>Washington</city>
					<state>DC</state>
					<postal>20460</postal>
				</cntaddr>
				<cntvoice>202-566-1146</cntvoice>
				<cntemail>Laurson.Nancy@epa.gov</cntemail>
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		<complete>Features represented have not been tested for completeness</complete>
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			<horizpa>
				<horizpar>Data were collected using methods that have unknown accuracy (EPA National Geospatial Data Policy [NGDP] Accuracy Tier 10). For more information, please see EPA's NGDP at https://www.epa.gov/geospatial/epa-national-geospatial-data-policy</horizpar>
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			<procstep>
				<procdate>20111128</procdate>
				<procdesc>Projected each boundary polygon from WGS84 to NAD83</procdesc>
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			<procstep>
				<procdate>20111128</procdate>
				<procdesc>Merged each boundary polygon into a single Shapefile.</procdesc>
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		<resdesc>Live Data and Maps</resdesc>
		<distliab>https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.htm</distliab>
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				<cntorgp>
					<cntorg>U.S. EPA Office of Water (OW) - Office of Wetlands Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW)</cntorg>
					<cntper>Nancy Laurson</cntper>
				</cntorgp>
				<cntaddr>
					<addrtype>mailing address</addrtype>
					<address>1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T</address>
					<city>Washington</city>
					<state>DC</state>
					<postal>20460</postal>
				</cntaddr>
				<cntvoice>202-566-1146</cntvoice>
				<cntemail>Laurson.Nancy@epa.gov</cntemail>
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			<cntinfo>
				<cntorgp>
					<cntorg>U.S. EPA Office of Water (OW) - Office of Wetlands Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW)</cntorg>
					<cntper>Nancy Laurson</cntper>
				</cntorgp>
				<cntaddr>
					<addrtype>mailing address</addrtype>
					<address>1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW MC 4503T</address>
					<city>Washington</city>
					<state>DC</state>
					<postal>20460</postal>
				</cntaddr>
				<cntvoice>202-566-1146</cntvoice>
				<cntemail>Laurson.Nancy@epa.gov</cntemail>
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