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National List of Beaches

Metadata Updated: February 24, 2024

EPA has published a list of coastal recreation waters adjacent to beaches (or similar points of access) used by the public in the U.S. The list, required by the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act (BEACH Act), identifies waters that are subject to a state beach water quality monitoring and public notification program consistent with the National Beach Guidance and Required Performance Criteria for BEACH Act Grants.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

Downloads & Resources

No file downloads have been provided. The publisher may provide downloads in the future or they may be available from their other links.

References

https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7BF1EA07EA-7243-49F1-A50E-682B90DF4741%7D
https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/rest/document?id=%7BF1EA07EA-7243-49F1-A50E-682B90DF4741%7D

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 29, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 24, 2024
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from OW Non-Geo Records

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 29, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 24, 2024
Publisher U.S. EPA Office of Water (OW) - Office of Science and Technology (OST)
Maintainer
Identifier {F1EA07EA-7243-49F1-A50E-682B90DF4741}
Data First Published 2014-01-01
Data Last Modified 2013-02-13
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 020:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://edg.epa.gov/data/public/OW/metadata/OW.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 6d68bdf3-f5a1-46f5-abab-b59e88fd3410
Harvest Source Id 8ed177f0-2564-4659-9197-8b64a5f0db3d
Harvest Source Title OW Non-Geo Records
License https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Old Spatial -180.0,18.0,-66.0,72.0
Program Code 020:072
Related Documents https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7BF1EA07EA-7243-49F1-A50E-682B90DF4741%7D, https://edg.epa.gov/metadata/rest/document?id=%7BF1EA07EA-7243-49F1-A50E-682B90DF4741%7D
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 0d61128306d2197a1c91c6f0d464315ba206a9ea84ecec8024db86018f3dd050
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -180.0, 18.0, -180.0, 72.0, -66.0, 72.0, -66.0, 18.0, -180.0, 18.0}

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