Ocean Planning in the Northeast

Fall 2014 Public Meeting Discussion Materials

Sep. 30–Throughout its Fall Public Meeting Series, the RPB will be seeking feedback and discussion on options under the Effective Decision Making goal and the Healthy Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems goal of the Framework for Ocean Planning in the Northeastern United States. In addition to the meetings, comments will also be accepted online at the Public Comment Portal.

These meetings will include updates on the regional ocean planning effort and a discussion of two topics the RPB will focus on at its November meeting: options under the Effective Decision Making goal and the Healthy Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems goal. For a description of these discussion topics, please see the following documents:

• 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)