Ocean Planning in the Northeast

In advance of its meeting on November 13-14, the Northeast Regional Planning Body (RPB) held a series of public events, as well as a day-long regional stakeholder forum. These meetings included updates on the regional ocean planning effort and a discussion of two topics the RPB focused on at its November meeting: options under the Effective Decision Making goal and the Healthy Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems goal.

In the addition to the series of public meetings (full schedule below), a day-long regional stakeholder forum was held on October 21, 2014 at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), in Durham, NH. Comments were accepted on these options at all public meetings, as well as online at the Public Comment Portal.

Important meeting materials include:

• • Summary of public comment (PDF) (69pp, 6.9M)
  • Stakeholder forum agenda (PDF) (2pp, 155k)
  • Summary of options for discussion under each goal (PDF) (6pp, 339k)

This summary is from the following two reports.

• Background report for Effective Decision Making goal (PDF) (29pp, 793k)
• Background report for Healthy Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems goal (PDF) (5pp, 315k)

Schedule of Public Meetings

• • October 6, 2014 – Portsmouth, New Hampshire; 5:00PM – 7:30PM
    NH Department of Environmental Services
    222 International Dr., Suite 175, Room A
    Portsmouth, NH

• • October 8, 2014 – Belfast, Maine; 1:00PM – 4:00PM
    Meeting of the Maine Ocean Advisors Group (open to the public)
    Hutchinson Center
    80 Belmont Avenue
    Belfast, ME

• • October 15, 2014 – Narragansett, Rhode Island; 5:00PM – 7:30PM
    Coastal Institute
    215 South Ferry Road, Hazards Room A and B
    Narragansett, RI

• • October 20, 2014 – New Haven, Connecticut; 6:00PM – 9:00PM
    Regional Water Authority
    90 Sargent Drive, Welch Room M
    New Haven, CT

• October 27, 2014 – Boston, Massachusetts; 3:00PM – 5:00PM
  100 Cambridge Street
  100 Cambridge Street, Second Floor Conference Room C + D
  Boston, MA