Office of Coast Survey

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Office of Coast Survey Update
CAPT Roger L. Parsons, NOAA Director, Office of
Coast Survey National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration Hydrographic Services Review
Panel August 18, 2005
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Mapping and Charting Budget (000)
2005 Conf Mark 2006 Request 2006 House Mark 2006
Senate Mark
Base 27,600 29,710 48,313 43,995 Coastal
Mapping 500 500 Marine Modeling
1,100 3,100 Hydro Surveys 1,300 2,300
NRTs 1,885 1,885 Nautical Charting
6,500 6,500 Total Base 38,885 43,995
48,313 43,995 ENCs 4,300 6,190
6,190 Shoreline Mapping 4,448 2,448
2,448 2,448 Shoreline Analysis
500 Joint Hydro Cntr 7,600 7,499
7,500 Survey Backlog 19,000 31,487 31,487
20,450 EEZ Surveys 2,200
2,200 Other Surveys 2,000 AK Surveys
2,500 3,500 Time Charter 2,000
11,850 Digital Coast 800
1,000 Coastal Map Consortium 1,000 River
Studies 750 NMAO Payment
3,058 Total Mapping/Charting 83,733
91,619 82,248 104,441
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Coast Survey Update

• ENCs 502 available and in continuous
  maintenance
• 98 of NOAA ENCs updated on a
  weekly basis
• Jan 2007 expect ENC coverage
  available in gt 90 of
• areas in which vessels expected to be
  impacted by new
• USCG electronic chart carriage rules operate
  

• RNCs - NOAA/Maptech RNC CRADA expired in June
  2005
• Contract to produce NOAA RNCs
  competitively awarded to
• MAPTECH in June 2005
• On/about 1 Oct 2005 NOAA RNCs and
  updates to be available
• free over the Internet
• Commercial providers will be able
  to distribute NOAA RNCs or
• value-added RNCs
• Distributors must adhere to
  specified practices

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Coast Survey Update

• Final ENC Distribution Rule
• - Published in Federal Register this week
• - 9 of 12 HSRP recommendations incorporated
• Hydrographic Products Quality Assurance Program
• - To date, no private sector products submitted
  for certification
• Hydrographic Survey Vessel Time Charter (TC)
• - Base performance year ended 7 July
• - Insufficient FY05 TC funds available to
  exercise option year
• - Contract extended until early Oct with
  available FY05 TC funds
• - Absent appropriations TC contract will expire
  at that time

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Coast Survey Update

• Hydrodynamic models under development and
  scheduled for
• completion in FY06
• - St. Johns River
• - Lake Erie
• - Lake Michigan
• Navigation Response Teams (NRT)
• - NRT 7 stood up in June (mid-Atlantic Region)
• - NRT 8 scheduled for FY06 (NE Region)
• - Hurricane Dennis response
• Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping Federal
  Mapping Inventory
• - NOAA, USGS, USACE and USN collaboration