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Endangered Species Act Critical Habitat

Dataset Summary

Agency	NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources
Sub-Agency/Organization
Category	Administrative and Political Boundaries, Locations and Geodetic Networks, Oceans and Estuaries
Date Released	2011
Date Updated
Time Period	1996 - 2011
Frequency	As needed
Description	Critical habitat (CH) is designated for the survival and recovery of species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Critical habitat includes those areas occupied by the species, on which are found physical and biological features that are essential to the conservation of an ESA listed species and which may require special management considerations or protection. Critical habitat may also include unoccupied habitat if the Secretary determines that the unoccupied habitat is essential for the conservation of the species. Critical habitat is designated by regulation at the time a species is listed under the ESA unless it is not prudent to do so or it is not determinable at the time. If it is not determinable, then NMFS must designate CH no later than one year after publication of a final listing. After identifying areas that meet the definition of CH, NMFS conducts an analysis to determine whether the economic, national security, or other relevant impacts of designating some areas as CH outweigh the benefits to the species. If so, NMFS may exclude such areas from the final CH designation. Each proposed and final regulation is published in the Federal Register. The final CH designation is also published in the Code of Federal Regulations (50 CFR 226).

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Geodata
Specialized Data Category Designation	Geospatial
Keywords	ISO 19115 Topic Category, boundaries, location, oceans, CIESIN Indexing Vocabulary, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico
Unique ID	49608B2D-51FB-4000-8F58-13BC56DB7668

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources
Agency Program Page
Agency Data Series Page	http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/gis/data/critical.htm

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis
Granularity
Geographic Coverage	-180.000000, 180.000000, 65.830103, 14.930000

Data Description

Collection Mode
Data Collection Instrument
Data Dictionary/Variable List	In ArcGIS, a collection of geographic features with the same geometry type (such as point, line, or polygon), the same attributes, and the same spatial reference.

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Additional Metadata	XML Format

OMB Control No. 3090-0284