Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: NOAA, Special Projects Office Publication_Date: Unknown Title: USEEZ: Boundaries of the Exclusive Economic Zones of the United States and territories Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Online_Linkage: http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/EEZ.HTM Online_Linkage: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/boundaries/eez/NOAA/useez.sip Description: Abstract: Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and Maritime Boundaries; Notice of Limits By Presidential Proclamation No. 5030 made on March 10, 1983, the United States established an exclusive economic zone, the outer limit of which is a line drawn in such a manner that each point on it is 200 nautical miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. The U.S. EEZ is the largest in the world, containing 3.4 million square miles of ocean and 90,000 miles of coastline. The Government of the United States of America has been, is, and will be, engaged in consultations and negotiations with governments of neighboring countries concerning the delimitation of areas subject to the respective jurisdiction of the United States and of these countries. The limits of the exclusive economic zone of the United States as set forth below are intended to be without prejudice to any negotiations with these countries or to any positions which may have been or may be adopted respecting the limits of maritime jurisdiction in such areas. Further, the limits of the exclusive economic zone set forth below are without prejudice to the outer limit of the continental shelf of the United States where that shelf extends beyond 200 nautical miles from the baseline in accordance with international law. Purpose: The purpose of this data layer is to provides a general basemap showing the extent of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. The EEZ consists of those areas adjoining the territorial sea of the U.S., the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and U.S. overseas territories and pssessions. The EEZ extends up to 200 nautical miles (370 km) from the U.S. coastline. About 15 percent of this area lies on the geologic continental shelf and is shallower than 200 meters. Within its EEZ, the U.S. has sovereign rights over all living and non-living resources. Other nations may exercise freedom of vessel navigation and overflight within the U.S. EEZ (Source: Year of the Ocean Discussion Papers 1998; 2nd Ed. of Coastal and Ocean Law by Kalo et al. 1994). Supplemental_Information: The following is provided verbatum from the Federal Register: [Federal Register: August 23, 1995 (Volume 60, Number 163)][Notices][Page 43825-43829] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov][DOCID:fr23au95 113]DEPARTMENT OF STATE[Public Notice 2237] Exclusive Economic Zone and Maritime Boundaries; Notice of Limits By Presidential Proclamation No. 5030 made on March 10, 1983, the United States established an exclusive economic zone, the outer limit of which is a line drawn in such a manner that each point on it is 200 nautical miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. The Government of the United States of America has been, is, and will be, engaged in consultations and negotiations with governments of neighboring countries concerning the delimitation of areas subject to the respective jurisdiction of the United States and of these countries. The limits of the exclusive economic zone of the United States as set forth below are intended to be without prejudice to any negotiations with these countries or to any positions which may have been or may be adopted respecting the limits of maritime jurisdiction in such areas. Further, the limits of the exclusive economic zone set forth below are without prejudice to the outer limit of the continental shelf of the United States where that shelf extends beyond 200 nautical miles from the baseline in accordance with international law. The following notices have been published which have defined the United States maritime boundaries and fishery conservation zone established March 1, 1977: Public Notice 506, Federal Register, Vol.41, No. 214, November 4, 1976, 48619-20; Public Notice 526, Federal Register, Vol. 42, No. 44, March 7, 1977, 12937-40; Public Notice 544, Federal Register, Vol. 42, No. 92, May 12, 1977, 24134; Public Notice 4710-01, Federal Register, Vol. 43, No. 7, January 11, 1978, 1658; Public Notice 585, Federal Register, Vol. 43, No. 7, January 11, 1978,1659; Public Notice 910, Federal Register, Vol. 49, No. 155, August 9,1984, 31973. This Public Notice supersedes all limits defined in the above Public Notices. Therefore, the Department of State on behalf of the Government of the United States hereby announces the limits of the exclusive economic zone of the United States of America, within which the United States will exercise its sovereign rights and jurisdiction as permitted under international law, pending the establishment of permanent maritime boundaries by mutual agreement in those cases where a boundary is necessary and has not already been agreed. Publication of a notice on this subject which is effective immediately upon publication is necessary to effectively exercise the foreign affairs responsibility of the Department of State. (See Title 5U.S.C. 553 (a)(1)(B).) Dated: August 10, 1995. David A. Colson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans [FR Doc. 95-20794 Filed 8-22-95; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4710-09-M Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: unknown Currentness_Reference: publication date Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -218.804901 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -63.888889 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 74.709763 South_Bounding_Coordinate: -17.557777 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Theme_Keyword: Exclusive Economic Zone Theme_Keyword: EEZ Theme_Keyword: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Theme_Keyword: NOAA Theme_Keyword: Special Projects Office Theme_Keyword: jurisdictional boundary Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: boundaries Theme_Keyword: oceans and estuaries Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General Place_Keyword: conterminous US Place_Keyword: US territories Place_Keyword: United States Place_Keyword: East Coast Place_Keyword: Gulf of Mexico Place_Keyword: West Coast Place_Keyword: Alaska Place_Keyword: Hawaiian Islands Place_Keyword: Hawaii Place_Keyword: Caribbean Place_Keyword: American Samoa Place_Keyword: Howland and Baker Island Place_Keyword: Jarvis Island Place_Keyword: Johnston Island Place_Keyword: Northern Mariana Islands Place_Keyword: Palmyra Atoll-Kingman Reef Place_Keyword: Wake Island Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: THE DATA INCLUDED IN THIS APPLICATION ARE BASED ON INTERPRETATION OF AVAILABLE INFORMATION AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS LEGALLY BINDING. Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Special Projects Office as the source of this information. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Steve Rohmann Contact_Organization: NOAA, Special Projects Office Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: SSMC-4 9th Floor Address: 1305 East-West Highway City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (301) 713-3000 x137 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: steve.rohmann@noaa.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/images/EEZglobe.jpg Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Thumbnail image showing the extent and outline of the NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone shapefile Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/basemaps/boundaries/NOAA/useez_noaa.gif Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Image showing the extent and outline of the NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone shapefile Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF Data_Set_Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Special Projects Office for creating the data layer. Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535 Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: All attributes were supplied with NOAA 'e00' dataset are Arc/Info related. There are no polygon attributes in the Exclusive Economic Zone geography. Logical_Consistency_Report: No additional checks for topological consistency were performed on the data. Completeness_Report: This is the complete, unaltered EEZ file as downloaded from the NOAA ftp site. NOAA now distributes the EEZ boundary as separate files based on geographic region. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: NOAA, Special Projects Office Publication_Date: Unknown Publication_Time: Unknown Title: USEEZ: Boundaries of the Exclusive Economic Zones of the U.S. and territories from NOAA Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data Online_Linkage: ftp://seaserver.nos.noaa.gov/datasets/efh/ Online_Linkage: ftp://seaserver.nos.noaa.gov/datasets/efh/useez.e00.gz Type_of_Source_Media: disc Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: unknown Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: useez.e00 Source_Contribution: The Arc/Info export file contains the extent of the US Exclusive Economic Zone and was downloaded from NOAA's anonymous ftp site. Process_Step: Process_Description: The useez.e00 file was imported to create a ARC/INFO 7.x coverage. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: useez.e00 Process_Date: 20020521 Process_Time: 0643 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: useez Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Computer Specialist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The Arc/Info coverage was edited to close the gap in the Alaska boundary. The edited file was then converted to the shapefile. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: useez Process_Date: 20020521 Process_Time: 0655 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: useez.dbf Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: useez.shp Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: useez.shx Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: useez.sbn Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: useez.sbx Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Computer Specialist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-870 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The geographic reference of the shapefile was defined to create an associated 'prj' file. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: useez.shp Process_Date: 20020521 Process_Time: 0704 Source_Produced_Citation_Abbreviation: useez.prj Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Valerie Paskevich Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Contact_Position: Computer Specialist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 384 Woods Hole Road City: Woods Hole State_or_Province: MA Postal_Code: 02543-1598 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2281 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vpaskevich@usgs.gov Process_Step: Process_Description: The fields (USEEZ_SHP_) that were carried over from the ArcInfo export file were deleted. The fields were not necessary for use in the ArcView shapefile. The field names, which were identifical for the first 10 characters, were flagged as duplicate fields. 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It is an ArcInfo internal control parameter and has not applicable relevance to the use of the data Attribute_Definition_Source: Software Computed Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 11276 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: integer count Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1 Attribute: Attribute_Label: LPOLY_ Attribute_Definition: Internal number of polygon to left of arc carried over from Arc/Info processing and the Arc/Info attribute LPOLY_. It is an ArcInfo internal control parameter and has not applicable relevance to the use of the data Attribute_Definition_Source: Software Computed Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 0 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: integer count Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1 Attribute: Attribute_Label: RPOLY_ Attribute_Definition: Internal number of polygon to right of arc carried over from Arc/Info processing and the Arc/Info attribute RPOLY_. It is an ArcInfo internal control parameter and has not applicable relevance to the use of the data. Attribute_Definition_Source: Software Computed Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0 Range_Domain_Maximum: 0 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: integer count Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1 Attribute: Attribute_Label: LENGTH Attribute_Definition: Length of the line in native units Attribute_Definition_Source: User Defined Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.000 Range_Domain_Maximum: 31.704 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: .001 Attribute: Attribute_Label: ARCTYPE Attribute_Definition: Code identifying the arc data source. 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