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    • EPA Office of Water (OW): Beaches PRAWN Attribute Data

    Metadata Updated: February 25, 2025

    The Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health (BEACH) Program focuses on the following five areas to meet the goals of improving public health and environmental protection for beach goers and providing the public with information about the quality of their beach water: strengthening beach standards and testing, providing faster laboratory test methods-predicting pollution, investing in health and methods research, informing the public. Under the BEACH Act Grant Program states (including tribes and territories) are required to submit their beach monitoring (water quality), notification (advisory and closing), and beach location data to EPA.

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    Metadata Date October 28, 2021
    Metadata Created Date February 25, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 25, 2025
    Reference Date(s) February 4, 2015 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update continual

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date October 28, 2021
    Metadata Created Date February 25, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 25, 2025
    Reference Date(s) February 4, 2015 (publication)
    Responsible Party U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
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    Access Constraints Use Constraints: Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated., Access Constraints: None.
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    Bbox North Lat 90
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    Coupled Resource
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    Licence https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.htm
    Licence Url https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.htm
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    Metadata Language eng; USA
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    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-180.0, -90.0], [180.0, -90.0], [180.0, 90.0], [-180.0, 90.0], [-180.0, -90.0]]]}
    Progress underDevelopment
    Spatial Data Service Type
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