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Coastal Management in the Great Lakes Region Overview | General Resources | Publications | Related Resources Coastal News | Coastal Calendar | Funding Coastal Issues: Erosion and Coastal Hazards | Maritime and Cultural Heritage Coastal Dependent Uses | Public Access | Coastal Community Development | Habitat/Wetlands State Coastal Programs: Illinois | Indiana | Michigan | Minnesota | New York | Ohio Pennsylvania | Wisconsin
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Overview Coastal management means achieving a balance between natural resources preservation and economic development along our Great Lakes coasts. The Great Lakes shoreline is equal to almost 44 percent of the circumference of the earth. Coastal management in the Great Lakes is part of a nationwide federal-state partnership that was established under the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) of 1972, which established the national Coastal Zone Management Program. Administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the program provides financial and technical assistance to states to develop and implement their own coastal zone management programs. The CZMA gives states broad flexibility in establishing their coastal programs, but all state programs must reduce erosion and coastal hazards, preserve maritime and cultural heritage, support coastal dependent uses, create and enhance public access, balance coastal community development, and protect and restore coastal habitat, including wetlands. Each state defines its coastal zone differently. While some use specific "distance from the high water mark" to define the upland boundary of their coastal zone, other states include the entire coastal watershed. In the Great Lakes basin, the seaward boundary of each state, pursuant to the Submerged Lands Act , extends "to the international boundary between the United States and Canada" (43 USC 1312 (2005)). The only exception to this rule is in Lake Michigan, which lies entirely within the United States; there the state jurisdictional boundaries have been defined by the states that border that lake (MCL 2.201 (1947)). All considered, the "coastal zone" of the 8 Great Lakes states is more than 14,000 square miles, larger than the surface area of Lake Erie. (see map) A unique aspect of the CZMA is the "federal consistency" provision, which ensures that federal actions that are reasonably likely to affect any land or water use or natural resource of the coastal zone will be consistent with the enforceable policies of a coastal state's coastal zone management program. Seven of the Great Lakes states have Coastal Management programs in place, and Illinois is anticipated to have a program adopted in 2008. All of the Great Lakes state coastal management programs are "networked" programs, which means that the programs integrate the array of array of state laws and policies that have some bearing on coastal resources into an overarching policy an regulatory framework, rather than establishing its own set of rules and regulations. More specifically, state coastal programs bring together policies and programs to:
In sum, the coastal management is about sustainable development in our coastal zones.
General Resources Coastal States Organization The Coastal States Organization represents the interests of the Governors from the thirty-five coastal States, Commonwealths and Territories bordering the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes on federal, legislative, administrative and policy issues relating to sound coastal, Great Lakes, and ocean management. NOAA Coastal Services Center The NOAA Coastal Services Center is an office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration devoted to serving the nation's state and local coastal resource management programs. Ocean and Coastal Resource Management National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management provides national leadership, strategic direction, and guidance to state and territory coastal programs and estuarine research reserves.
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Coastal Zone Management in the Great Lakes
Related Resources GLIN: Agencies and Organizations, Coastal Zones GLIN: Dredging in the Great Lakes Region GLIN: Land Use in the Great Lakes Region Great Lakes BeachCast (leave GLIN)
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