Minerals Management Service, Mapping and Boundary Branch
201001
Atlantic NAD 83 Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Administrative Boundaries
vector digital data
Digital Offshore Cadastre
current
Herndon, Virginia
Minerals Management Service, Mapping and Boundary Branch
http://www.mms.gov/ld/AdminBoundaries.htm
Minerals Management Service, Mapping and Boundary Branch
2010
MMS Offshore Cadastral Data
map
Herndon, VA
Minerals Management Service, Mapping and Boundary
Branch
VA_STEWARD.MMC_AdminBdy
This data set contains the Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Administrative Boundaries Extending from the Submerged Lands Act Boundary seaward to the Limit of the United States Outer Continental Shelf (The U.S. 200 nautical mile limit, or other marine boundary), in ESRI shapefile format, for the MMS Atlantic Region. These shapefiles have been densified to approximately 1 nautical mile, so that when projected to something other than geographic, the lines will retain the proper shape.
These boundaries will provide the basis for more accurate delineation of OCS planning areas; assist in determining affected state status under the Coastal Zone Management Act and OCS Lands Act; and assist in the section 18 comparative analysis to determine an equitable sharing of developmental benefits and environmental risks among regions. For further information please see the Federal Register Notice from January 3, 2006. See http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/05-24659.pdf
The MMS is making its existing cadastre data available at http://www.mms.gov/offshore/mapping/. These data include Official Protraction Diagrams (OPDs), and Supplemental Official OCS Block Diagrams (SOBDs) in pdf format, and digital spatial data in ArcGIS shapefile format.
en
201001
publication date
As needed
-81.348261
-66.918856
42.957577
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-81.348261
-66.918856
30.195772
42.957577
None
Offshore
Marine Cadastre
Submerged Lands Act Boundary, SLA
Federal OCS Administrative Boundaries
Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
Outer Continental Shelf, OCS
Minerals Management Service, MMS
Oil and gas
States
Administrative Boundary
Renewable Energy
None
USA
Atlantic Ocean
Exclusive Economic Zone, EEZ
Maine, ME
New Hampshire, NH
Massachusetts, MA
Rhode Island, RI
Connecticut, CT
New York, NY
New Jersey, NJ
Delaware, DE
Maryland, MD
Virginia, VA
North Carolina, NC
South Carolina, SC
Georgia, GA
Florida, FL
None. The Block and Boundary data is in the public
domain.
The data was developed within the U.S. Government; no proprietary rights may be attached to them nor may they be sold to the U.S. Government as part of any procurement of ADP products or services.
Minerals Management Service, Mapping & Boundary Branch
Chief, Mapping and Boundary Branch
mailing address
381 Elden Street
Mail Stop 4011
Herndon
Virginia
20170-4817
USA
(703)787-1312
(703)787-1236
6:00am-3:30pm EST
mapping.boundary.branch@mms.gov
http://www.mms.gov/ld/XMLmetadata/atl_admn.gif
Administrative Boundaries shown in yellow
GIF
ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000
Feature Class
The file is believed to be free of topologic errors.
All Atlantic Region Federal OCS Administrative Boundaries are included. They have been clipped at the approximate SLA boundary and U.S. 200 NM Limits. They have not been intersected with the blocks, so block intersection points are not included.
Coordinates for points forming the Federal OCS Administrative Boundaries were calculated in CARIS to 0.001 meter resolution. Note however that these are geodetic lines. They have been densified as geodesics in CARIS to add a vertex every 1 nautical mile, in order to preserve the proper shape between turning points (when/if they are projected to some other projection).
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast Survey (OCS).
Unpublished Material
National Baseline
map
Silver Spring, MD
NOAA
Digital File
2005
Calendar date
NOAA NB
Baseline points from which the Federal OCS Administrative Boundaries were projected.
The National Baseline points were obtained from NOAA via MOU. Although the National Baseline is unpublished, the marine boundaries and information which describe NOAA's National Baseline processes are available from
www.ccjdc.org/events/workshops/shows/Tidal_Datum_Web/Monterey/westington.pps and http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/mbound.htm. The National Baseline file was reformatted as required for input into the CARIS Limits and Boundaries Program. In some areas, additional baseline points landward of selected Bay, Harbor, or River Closing Lines, were digitized as needed and added to the baseline in CARIS. Equidistant lines were then projected by CARIS using the EQUIDISTANT LINE tool, and densified with the LINE TO GEODESIC tool.
withheld
200512
Minerals Management Service, Mapping and Boundary Branch
Chief, Mapping and Boundary Branch
mailing address
381 Elden St.
Mail Stop 4011
Herndon
Virginia
20170-4817
USA
(703) 787-1312
(703) 787-1236
mapping.boundary.branch@mms.gov
6:00am-3:30pm EST
CARIS version 4, Service Pack 6
withheld
Text files (geographic coordinates) were output from CARIS for the geodesic lines, which contained both the densified points and the original turning points. Shape files were created from these text files. Those shapefiles were projected to UTM and intersected (on a UTM plane) with a shapefile for the Submerged Lands Act boundary (3 mile line) in Arc GIS. Those UTM intersection points were determined, and projected back to geographic. Those intersection points were then edited into the geographic text files, and any landward points were deleted. The text files were then generated into a coverage and converted to a shapefile.
ArcGIS 9.2
201001
Minerals Management Service, Mapping and Boundary Branch
Chief, Mapping and Boundary Branch
(703) 787-1312
(703) 787-1236
mapping.boundary.branch@mms.gov
6:00am-3:30pm EST
mailing address
381 Elden St
Herndon
VA
20170-4817
USA
withheld
withheld
Dataset copied.
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20100706
15474000
U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
Vector
Simple
FALSE
0
TRUE
FALSE
D_WGS_1984
WGS_1984
6378137.000000
298.257224
GCS_WGS_1984
WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere
coordinate pair
meters
0.000000
0.000000
Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
1.000000
Minerals Management Service
Equidistant Offshore Administrative Boundaries between States
Minimal attributes to define the administrative boundaries
Federal_OCS_Administrative_Boundaries
Feature Class
0
shapefile attribute table
none
OBJECTID
OBJECTID
OID
4
0
0
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Shape
Shape
Geometry
0
0
0
Feature geometry.
ESRI
Coordinates defining the features.
SHAPE_Length
Shape_Length
Double
8
0
0
Length of feature in internal units.
ESRI
Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.
Minerals Management Service, Mapping and Boundary Branch
mailing address
381 Elden St
Mail Stop 4011
Herndon
Virginia
20170-4817
USA
(703) 787-1312
(703) 787-1236
mapping.boundary.branch@mms.gov
6:00am-3:30pm EST
Chief, Mapping & Boundary Branch
Digital Offshore Cadastre
No responsibility is assumed for the correctness of this data.
ASHP
9.2
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http://www.mms.gov/ld/AdminBoundaries.htm
Download the zip file from the web site. The downloaded file will need to be unzipped. The result will be the necessary ArcView shapefiles and .dbf file.
None
201001
201001
Minerals Management Service, Mapping and Boundary Branch
REQUIRED: The person responsible for the metadata information.
Chief, Mapping & Boundary Branch
mailing address
381 Elden St
Mail Stop 4011
Herndon
Virginia
20170
USA
(703) 787-1312
mapping.boundary.branch@mms.gov
6:00am - 3:30pm EST
(703) 787-1236
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001-1998
local time
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Federal_OCS_Administrative_Boundaries
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Projected
GCS_WGS_1984
WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere
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Administrative boundaries extending from the Submerged Lands Act boundary seaward to the US Outer Continental Shelf. These boundaries were created for BOEM administrative purposes only, such as delineating BOEM planning areas or determining shared state revenue sharing within the 3 nautical mile zone seaward of the SLA boundary known as the Revenue Sharing Boundary. They were created using the equidistant principle used to divide offshore areas between countries as defined within the UNCLOS. They are not meant to depict areas offshore as pertaining to or controlled by any particular state.
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Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM); web service published by the MARCO Portal
OCS
administrative boundaries
ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
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dataset
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Feature Class
File Geodatabase Feature Class
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EPSG
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