Eastern Lake Michigan Inland Sensitivity Atlas
Other Environmentally Sensitive Areas Coverage, Eastern Lake Michigan Mapping Area

Metadata:
Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Great Lakes Commission
Publication_Date: 20000930
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: Eastern Lake Michigan Inland Sensitivity Atlas
Edition: Final, Version 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Atlas
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Inland Sensitivity Atlas
Issue_Identification: Eastern Lake Michigan
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Chicago, Illinois
Publisher: U.S. EPA, Region 5
Description:
Abstract:
Other areas of natural resource significance may be documented, depending on the type and extent of resources in the mapped area. These additional areas are not publicly managed nor do they have any special designation, but they have been identified as special places meriting spill protection. These resource areas are mapped because they are valued for natural qualities, such as habitats supporting large numbers of non-listed species. Examples include migratory waterfowl resting areas, important fishery areas, and natural communities. These areas are uniquely vulnerable to oil spills. Therefore, this coverage helps to bring such areas of the Michigan counties of Osceola, Lake, Mecosta, Newaygo, Montcalm, Kent, Clinton, Ionia, Ingham, Eaton, Barry, Jackson, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Branch, St. Joseph, Cass, Mason, Oceana, Muskegon, Ottawa, Allegan, Van Buren, and Berrien to the attention of spill planners and responders. The specific marina locations were obtained and quality assured/quality controlled using maps and individual feedback from various public agencies and private sector groups regarding specific sites.
Purpose:
In order to better protect unique commercial, environmental, and cultural resources from oil spills, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 mandated a coordinated effort by federal, state, and local regulatory agencies and the regulated community to enhance oil spill preparedness and response. This coverage provides the location and attached data for the 24 counties of the Eastern Lake Michigan Mapping Area. The development of spatial databases and geographic information systems is done pursuant to implementing the preparedness and response mandates of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
Supplemental_Information:
These data were prepared at map scales of 1:24,000 and are best used in applications of comparable resolution. In addition, these data were developed to meet specific project objectives related to contingency planning and spill response and therefore may not represent complete feature inventories.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20000417
Ending_Date: 20000908
Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
Spatial_Domain:
Description of Geographic Extent:
The Eastern Lake Michigan Mapping Area encompasses the Michigan counties of Osceola, Lake, Mecosta, Newaygo, Montcalm, Kent, Clinton, Ionia, Ingham, Eaton, Barry, Jackson, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Branch, St. Joseph, Cass, Mason, Oceana, Muskegon, Ottawa, Allegan, Van Buren, and Berrien.
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -87.00000
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -84.06203
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 44.25491
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.53333
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: Other Environmentally Sensitive Areas
Theme_Keyword: Spawning Areas
Theme_Keyword: Breeding Grounds
Theme_Keyword: Migratory Stop Overs
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Eastern Lake Michigan
Place_Keyword: Michigan
Place_Keyword: Western Michigan
Place_Keyword: Lake Michigan
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: None
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Thomas Rayburn
Contact_Organization: Great Lakes Commission
Contact_Position: Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: 400 Fourth Street
Address: The Argus II Building
City: Ann Arbor
State_or_Province: Michigan
Postal_Code: 48103-4816
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 734-665-9135
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 734-665-4370
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: glc@great-lakes.net
Hours_of_Service: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
Contact_Instructions: Unavailable
Data_Set_Credit: Great Lakes Commission
Security_Information:
Security_Classification_System: None
Security_Classification: Unclassified
Security_Handling_Description: None
Native_Data_Set_Environment: PC ArcView 3.2
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Great Lakes Commission
Publication_Date: 20000731
Publication_Time: Unknown
Title: Eastern Lake Michigan Inland Sensitivity Atlas
Edition: Final, Version 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Atlas
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Inland Sensitivity Atlas
Issue_Identification: Eastern Lake Michigan
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Chicago, Illinois
Publisher: U.S. EPA, Region 5
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Great Lakes Commission staff working on the Area Contingency Planning project verified all descriptive and spatial attributes and collected confirmation from landowners of attributes and boundaries via surveys or direct external review. Spatial data were cross-checked with multiple sources. Quality assurance and quality control for the data were developed utilizing in-house standard operating procedures.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Data were developed for this layer utilizing multiple primary sources, including USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle maps; federal electronic sources. Location and attribute information is only as accurate and complete as the information specifically applies to each individual record at the time of data development. Data for these other environmentally sensitive areas are primarily attributed polygons, plotted in ArcView 3.2 GIS. These polygons were generated in 1999 and updated in 2000 based on current information from primary sources but do not necessarily always exactly overlay the base map 7.5 minute quadrangle maps with previous publication dates.
Completeness_Report:
This coverage does not necessarily include all "other environmentally sensitive areas" within the given Eastern Lake Michigan Mapping Area. Specifically, these areas are subject to a qualitative review by interested parties that may or may not be consistent throughout the mapping area. This is due in part to the difficulty of identifying features and identifying correct ownership of areas. This layer represents available data as of 2000. Exhaustive efforts were made to compile as thorough an atlas as possible, with particular in depth detail paid to those areas in proximity to surface waters.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Horizontal positional accuracy is tested by visual comparison of hard copy check plots to the source materials and verifying the location of the data on screen relative to other data layers in the same geographic area.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publication_Date: Unknown
Title: Piping Plover Sensitive Area
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: ArcView GIS Shapefile
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Unknown
Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Type_of_Source_Media: Digital Map
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20000417
Ending_Date: 20000428
Source_Currentness_Reference: Publication Date
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: None
Source_Contribution: Locational information
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Data for the "other environmentally sensitive areas" layer were developed from information provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Either hard copy or electronic information was utilized, including Internet sources citing the area boundaries and attribute information, and the applicable data were extracted. Federal agencies with holdings in the Eastern Lake Michigan mapping area were also contacted for site-specific information. The 7.5 minute quadrangle maps, as digital raster graphics, were also used as a base layer for locational and boundary information. The Delorme Atlas and Gazetteer series for Michigan also provided additional supporting information for location and in some instances basic contact information. Phone and mail correspondence was also used to fill in applicable data gaps in preparation of the draft atlas. The data was plotted in a GIS using ESRI's ArcView 3.2 and displayed against the digital raster imagery at a scale of 1:24,000. Data links were incorporated into these GIS files to match the mapped sites to the appropriate data record as outlined in Section 5.2.1, Entity and Attribute Overview. Draft hard copy atlases were prepared from this data, supplied by the Great Lakes Commission, and the USGS's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) in Onalaska, Wisconsin. The UMESC produced hard copy maps in portable document files (.pdf) format at scales of 1:25,000 and 1:100,000. These maps were then reproduced and distributed by the Great Lakes Commission for external review by primary source data holders. All updated, corrected and amended information was then added to the project files and returned to the UMESC for distribution in .pdf hardcopy format; and electronic distribution via CD-ROM and the Internet. Final electronic formats include ArcView 3.2 shapefiles, .e00 ArcExport files, .pdfs, and converted CAMEO/Landview files.
Process_Date: 20000731
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Thomas Rayburn
Contact_Organization: Great Lakes Commission
Contact_Position: Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: 400 Fourth Street
Address: The Argus II Building
City: Ann Arbor
State_or_Province: Michigan
Postal_Code: 48103-4816
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 734-665-9135
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 734-665-4370
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: glc@great-lakes.net
Hours_of_Service: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
Contact_Instructions: Unavailable
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Polygon
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Grid_Coordinate_System:
Grid_Coordinate_System_Name:
Universal_Transverse_Mercator:
UTM_Zone_Number: 16
Transverse_Mercator:
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -87
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0
False_Easting: 500000
False_Northing: 0
Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: .9996
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927
Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866
Semi-major_Axis: 6378206.4
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.98
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
Data items provided for, include: SITE_NAME - Proper name of the other environmentally sensitive area; DESIG_AGEN - Designating agency with resource expertise for the area; EMERG_PHON - 24-hour emergency telephone number for the designating agency with resource expertise for the area. May be a state emergency phone number; WATERBODY - Waterbody(s) in or adjacent to the other environmentally sensitive area, where known; CATEGORY - Designation category or program under which the area was designated. The sensitive areas in this database have the same category names used by the designating agencies, such as state wild and scenic river, outstanding resource waters, nature preserves, etc.; COUNTY - County in which the other environmentally sensitive area is located; STREET - Street address of the actual location of the other environmentally sensitive area; CITY - City, or nearest, where the other environmentally sensitive area is located; STATE - State in which the other environmentally sensitive areais located; ZIP_CODE - ZIP_CODE - Zip code for the other environmentally sensitive area; CNCT_PHON - A non-emergency telephone number for the agency with resource expertise for the area; TWSP_RANGE - Location of the area by township and range locators (e.g., T00N_R00W), or township proper name; SECTION - Location by section, where available and located within one section; LOC_DESC (1-4) - Location description of the other environmentally sensitive area; COMMENT (1-4) - Additional information about the other environmentally sensitive area; REF_NUMBER - Reference number serving as a unique identifier for each database record; ACCURACY - An upgradeable accuracy code for each database record: 1=Excellent - verified at a scale of 1:1 to 1:20,000, 2=Very Good - verified at a scale of 1:20,001 to 1:60, 000, 3=Good - verified at a scale of 1:60,001 to 1:200,000, 4=Fair - verified at a scale of 1:200,001 to 1:1,000,000, 5=Coarse - verified at a scale of greater than 1:1,000,000 or unverified; VERIFIER - Name of the group that verified the data (Great Lakes Commission [GLC]); VERIF_DATE - date on which the record accuracy was verified; ADM_ADDR [1-3] - Administrative mailing address for the designating agency with resource expertise. Please note that the administrative mailing address may be different than the contact mailing address.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
Database items and definitions are from: Inland Sensitivity Mapping Project Reference Manual Database Field Structures, published August 11, 2000, By the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -Region 5, the U.S. Geological Survey-Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, the Great Lakes Commission and the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association.
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Thomas Rayburn
Contact_Organization: Great Lakes Commission
Contact_Position: Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: 400 Fourth Street
Address: The Argus II Building
City: Ann Arbor
State_or_Province: Michigan
Postal_Code: 48103-4816
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 734-665-9135
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 734-665-4370
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: glc@great-lakes.net
Hours_of_Service: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
Contact_Instructions: Unavailable
Distribution_Liability:
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20000925
Metadata_Review_Date: 20000930
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Thomas Rayburn
Contact_Organization: Great Lakes Commission
Contact_Position: Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
Address: 400 Fourth Street
Address: The Argus II Building
City: Ann Arbor
State_or_Province: Michigan
Postal_Code: 48103-4816
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 734-665-9135
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 734-665-4370
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: glc@great-lakes.net
Hours_of_Service: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
Contact_Instructions: Unavailable
Metadata_Standard_Name:
NBII Content Standard for National Biological Information Infrastructure Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Access_Constraints: None
Metadata_Use_Constraints: None
Metadata_Security_Information:
Metadata_Security_Classification_System: None
Metadata_Security_Classification: Unclassified
Metadata_Security_Handling_Description: None
Generated by mp version 2.7.2 on Thu Nov 30 10:35:28 2000