Coastal zone

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-005442",
  "term": "Coastal zone",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Coastal Zone",
  "definition": "1. Lands and waters adjacent to the coast that exert an influence on the uses of the sea and its ecology, or whose uses and ecology are affected by the sea.\n\n2. The area extending from the ocean inland across the region directly influenced by marine processes.\n\n3. Coastal Zone Management Act usage. The coastal waters (including the lands therein and thereunder) and the adjacent shorelands (including the waters therein and thereunder), stron ly influenced by each other and in proximity to the shorelines of the several coastal states, including transitional and intertidal areas, salt marshes, wetlands, and beaches. The zone extends, in Great Lakes waters, to the international boundary between the United States and Canada and, in other areas, seaward to the outer limit of the United States territorial sea. The zone extends inland from the shorelines only to the extent necessary to control shorelands, the uses of which have a direct and significant impact on the coastal waters. Excluded from the coastal zone are lands the use of which is by law subject solely to the discretion of or which is held in trust by the Federal government, its officers or agents.\n\n4. As defined for the purpose of the NCP, means all United States waters subject to the tide, United States waters of the Great Lakes, specified ports and harbors on inland rivers, waters of the contiguous zone, other waters of the high seas subject to the NCP, and the land surface or land substrata, ground waters, and ambient air proximal to those waters. The term coastal zone delineates an area of federal responsibility for response action. Precise boundaries are determined by EPA/USCG agreements and identified in federal regional contingency plans.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Glossary; Urban Watershed Management Research Terminology; Terms of Environment",
    "Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-level Rise Glossary and Acronyms",
    "Coastal Zone Manage. Act 1972; USDA Forest Service Wildland Planning Glossary",
    "40 CFR 300.5 (CFR 2013); 40 CFR Appendix E to Part 300 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/coastal-zone/"
}