Report Date: 03-Aug-2000
Metadata Data Set Name:
                    Other Environmentally Sensitive Areas Coverage, 
                    Western Lake Superior Mapping Area
  1 Identification Information
    1.1 Citation:
    8 Citation Information:
          8.1 Originator:
                    Great Lakes Commission
          8.2 Publication Date:
                    20000731
          8.3 Publication Time:
                    Unknown
          8.4 Title:
                    Western Lake Superior Inland
                    Sensitivity Atlas
          8.5 Edition:
                    Final, Version 1
          8.6 Geospatial Data Presentation Form:
                    Atlas
            8.7.1 Series Name:
                    Inland Sensitivity Atlas
            8.7.2 Issue Identification:
                    Western Lake Superior
            8.8.1 Publication Place:
                    Chicago, Illinois
            8.8.2 Publisher:
                    U.S. EPA, Region 5
    1.2 Description
      1.2.1 Abstract:
                    Other areas of natural resource significance 
                    may be documented, depending on the type and 
                    extent of resources in the mapped area.  
                    These additional areas are not publicly managed 
                    nor do they have any special designation, but 
                    they have been identified as special places 
                    meriting spill protection.  These resource 
                    areas are mapped because they are valued for 
                    natural qualities, such as habitats supporting 
                    large numbers of non-listed species.  Examples 
                    include migratory waterfowl resting areas, 
                    important fishery areas, and natural communities. 
                    These areas are uniquely vulnerable to oil spills. 
                    Therefore, this coverage helps to bring
                    such areas of the Minnesota counties of Cook,
                    Lake, St. Louis, and Carlton, and Wisconsin
                    counties of Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland, and Iron
                    to the attention of oil spill planners and
                    responders.  The boundaries of these areas were
                    obtained and quality/ assured controlled using
                    maps and individual feedback from various public
                    agencies and private sector groups regarding
                    specific sites.
      1.2.2 Purpose:
                    In order to better protect unique commercial,
                    environmental, and cultural resources from oil
                    spills, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 mandated a
                    coordinated effort by federal, state, and local
                    regulatory agencies and the regulated community to
                    enhance oil spill preparedness and response.  This
                    coverage provides the location and attached data
                    for the eight counties of the Western Lake Superior
                    Mapping Area.  The development of spatial
                    databases and geographic information systems is
                    done pursuant to implementing the preparedness and
                    response mandates of the Oil Pollution Act of
                    1990.
      1.2.3 Supplemental Information:
                    These data were prepared at map scales of 1:24,000
                    and are best used in applications of comparable
                    resolution.  In addition, these data were
                    developed to meet specific project objectives
                    related to contingency planning and spill response
                    and therefore may not represent complete feature
                    inventories.
    1.3 Time Period Of Content
      9 Time Period Information
          9.3 Range of Dates/Times
            9.3.1 Beginning Date:
                    20000417
            9.3.3 Ending Date:
                    20000908
      1.3.1 Currentness Reference:
                    Publication date
    1.4 Status
      1.4.1 Progress:
                    Complete
      1.4.2 Maintenance and Update Frequency:
                    As needed
    1.5 Spatial Domain
      99.1.5.1 Description of Geographic Extent:
                    The Western Lake Superior Mapping Area encompasses
                    the Minnesota counties of Cook, Lake, St. Louis, 
                    and Carlton, and the Wisconsin counties of Douglas,
                    Bayfield, Ashland, and Iron.
      1.5.1 Bounding Coordinates
        1.5.1.1 West Bounding Coordinate:
                    -93.2721
        1.5.1.2 East Bounding Coordinate:
                    -89.2449
        1.5.1.3 North Bounding Coordinate:
                    48.7547
        1.5.1.4 South Bounding Coordinate:
                    45.7888
    1.6 Keywords
      1.6.1 Theme
        1.6.1.1 Theme Keyword Thesaurus:
                    None
          1.6.1.2 Theme Keyword:
                    Other Environmentally Sensitive Areas
          1.6.1.2 Theme Keyword:
                    Spawning Areas
          1.6.1.2 Theme Keyword:
                    Breeding Grounds
          1.6.1.2 Theme Keyword:
                    Migratory Stop Overs
      1.6.2 Place
        1.6.2.1 Place Keyword Thesaurus:
                    None
          1.6.2.2 Place Keyword:
                    Western Lake Superior
          1.6.2.2 Place Keyword:
                    Minnesota
          1.6.2.2 Place Keyword:
                    Wisconsin
          1.6.2.2 Place Keyword:
                    Duluth
          1.6.2.2 Place Keyword:
                    Superior
      1.6.4 Temporal
        1.6.4.1 Temporal Keyword Thesaurus:
                    None
          1.6.4.2 Temporal Keyword:
                    20000701
    1.7 Access Constraints:
                    None
    1.8 Use Constraints:
                    None
    1.9 Point of Contact
           10.1 Contact Person Primary
             10.1.1 Contact Person:
                    Thomas Rayburn
             10.1.2 Contact Organization:
                    Great Lakes Commission
           10.3 Contact Position:
                    Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning
           10.4 Contact Address
             10.4.1 Address Type:
                    Mailing and Physical Address
             10.4.2 Address:
                    400 Fourth Street
             10.4.2 Address:
                    The Argus II Building
             10.4.3 City:
                    Ann Arbor
             10.4.4 State or Province:
                    Michigan
             10.4.5 Postal Code:
                    48103-4816
             10.4.6 Country:
                    USA
           10.5 Contact Voice Telephone:
                    734-665-9135
           10.7 Contact Facsimile Telephone:
                    734-665-4370
           10.8 Contact Electronic Mail Address:
                    glc@great-lakes.net
           10.9 Hours of Service:
                    8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
           10.10 Contact Instructions:
                    Unavailable
    1.11 Data Set Credit:
                    Great Lakes Commission
    1.12 Security Information
      1.12.1 Security Classification System:
                    None
      1.12.2 Security Classification:
                    Unclassified
      1.12.3 Security Handling Description:
                    None
    1.13 Native Data Set Environment:
                    PC ArcView 3.2
    1.14 Cross Reference
          8.1 Originator:
                    Great Lakes Commission
          8.2 Publication Date:
                    20000731
          8.3 Publication Time:
                    Unknown
          8.4 Title:
                    Western Lake Superior Mapping Area Inland
                    Sensitivity Atlas
          8.5 Edition:
                    Final, Version 1
          8.6 Geospatial Data Presentation Form:
                    Atlas
            8.7.1 Series Name:
                    Inland Sensitivity Atlas
            8.7.2 Issue Identification:
                    Western Lake Superior
            8.8.1 Publication Place:
                    Chicago, Illinois
            8.8.2 Publisher:
                    U.S. EPA, Region 5
  2 Data Quality Information
    2.1 Attribute Accuracy
      2.1.1 Attribute Accuracy Report:
                    Great Lakes Commission staff working on the Area
                    Contingency Planning project verified all
                    descriptive and spatial attributes and collected
                    confirmation from landowners of attributes and
                    boundaries via surveys or direct external review. 
                    Spatial data were cross-checked with multiple
                    sources.  Quality assurance and quality control
                    for the data were developed utilizing in-house
                    standard operating procedures.
    2.2 Logical Consistency Report:
                    Data were developed for this layer utilizing
                    multiple primary sources, including USGS 7.5
                    minute quadrangle maps; federal electronic sources.
                    Location and attribute information is only as
                    accurate and complete as the information
                    specifically applies to each individual record at
                    the time of data development.  Data for these
                    other environmentally sensitive areas are primarily 
                    attributed polygons, plotted in ArcView 3.2 GIS.
                    These polygons were generated in 2000 based on 
                    current information from primary sources but do 
                    not necessarily always exactly overlay the base 
                    map 7.5 minute quadrangle maps with previous
                    publication dates.
    2.3 Completeness Report:
                    This coverage does not necessarily include all
                    "other environmentally sensitive areas" within 
                    the given Western Lake Superior Mapping Area.  
                    Specifically, these areas are subject to a
                    qualitative review by interested parties that
                    may or moy not be consistent throughout the
                    mapping area.  This is due in part to the 
                    difficulty of identifying features and 
                    identifying correct ownership of areas.  This 
                    layer represents available data as of 2000.
                    Exhaustive efforts were made to compile as
                    thorough an atlas as possible, with particular in
                    depth detail paid to those areas in proximity to
                    surface waters.
    2.4 Positional Accuracy
      2.4.1 Horizontal Positional Accuracy
        2.4.1.1 Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report:
                    Horizontal positional accuracy is tested by visual
                    comparison of hard copy check plots to the source
                    materials and verifying the location of the data
                    on screen relative to other data layers in the
                    same geographic area.
      2.5.2 Process Step
        2.5.2.1 Process Description:
                    Data for the "other environmentally sensitive 
                    areas" layer were developed from information 
                    provided by the Minnesota Department
                    of Natural Resources.  Either hard copy
                    or electronic information was utilized,
                    including Internet sources citing the area
                    boundaries and attribute information, and the
                    applicable data were extracted.  The 7.5
                    minute quadrangle maps, as digital raster
                    graphics, were also used as a base layer
                    for locational and boundary information. 
                    The Delorme Atlas and Gazetteer series for 
                    Minnesota and also provided additional supporting 
                    information for location and in some instances 
                    basic contact information.  Phone and mail 
                    correspondence was also used to fill in 
                    applicable data gaps in preparation of the 
                    draft atlas.  The data was plotted in a GIS 
                    using ESRI's ArcView 3.2 and displayed against 
                    the digital raster imagery  at a scale of 
                    1:24,000.  Data links were incorporated into 
                    these GIS files to match the mapped sites 
                    to the appropriate data record as outlined 
                    in Section 5.2.1, Entity and Attribute Overview.  
                    Hard copy atlases were prepared from this data, 
                    supplied by the Great Lakes Commission, and the 
                    USGS's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences 
                    Center (UMESC) in Onalaska, Wisconsin. The 
                    UMESC produced maps in portable document files 
                    (.pdf) format at scales of 1:25,000 and 
                    1:100,000.  These maps were then reproduced as 
                    hard copy paper maps, and electronic maps on 
                    compact discs (CDs).  These maps were then
                    reproduced and distributed by the Great Lakes
                    Commission for external review by primary source
                    data holders.  All updated, corrected and 
                    amended information was then added to the project
                    files and returned to the UMESC for distribution
                    in .pdf hardcopy format; and electronic distribution
                    via CD-ROM and the Internet.  Final electronic
                    formats include ArcView 3.2 shapefiles, .e00
                    ArcExport files, .pdfs, and converted  
                    CAMEO/Landview files.
        2.5.2.3 Process Date:
                    20000731
        2.5.2.6 Process Contact
          10 Contact Information
           10.1 Contact Person Primary
             10.1.1 Contact Person:
                    Thomas Rayburn
             10.1.2 Contact Organization:
                    Great Lakes Commission
           10.3 Contact Position:
                    Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning
           10.4 Contact Address
             10.4.1 Address Type:
                    Mailing and Physical Address
             10.4.2 Address:
                    400 Fourth Street
             10.4.2 Address:
                    The Argus II Building
             10.4.3 City:
                    Ann Arbor
             10.4.4 State or Province:
                    Michigan
             10.4.5 Postal Code:
                    48103-4816
             10.4.6 Country:
                    USA
           10.5 Contact Voice Telephone:
                    734-665-9135
           10.7 Contact Facsimile Telephone:
                    734-665-4370
           10.8 Contact Electronic Mail Address:
                    glc@great-lakes.net
           10.9 Hours of Service:
                    8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
           10.10 Contact Instructions:
                    Unavailable
  3 Spatial Data Organization Information
    3.2 Direct Spatial Reference Method:
                    Vector
    3.3 Point and Vector Object Information
        3.3.1.1 SDTS Point and Vector Object Type:
                    Polygon
  4 Spatial Reference Information
    4.1 Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
      4.1.2 Planar
           4.1.2.2 Grid Coordinate System
              4.1.2.2.1 Grid Coordinate System Name:
                    Universal Transverse Mercator
              4.1.2.2.2 Universal Transverse Mercator
               4.1.2.2.2.1 UTM Zone Number:
                    15
            4.1.2.1.2.2 Longitude Of Central Meridian:
                    -93
            4.1.2.1.2.3 Latitude Of Projection Origin:
                    0
            4.1.2.1.2.4 False Easting:
                    500000
            4.1.2.1.2.5 False Northing:
                    0
            4.1.2.1.2.17 Scale Factor at Central Meridian:
                    .9996
      4.1.4 Geodetic Model
        4.1.4.1 Horizontal Datum Name:
                    North American Datum of 1927
        4.1.4.2 Ellipsoid Name:
                    Clarke 1866
        4.1.4.3 Semi-Major Axis:
                    6378206.4
        4.1.4.4 Denominator of Flattening Ratio:
                    294.98
  5 Entity and Attribute Information
   5.2 Overview Description
     5.2.1 Entity and Attribute Overview:
                    Data items provided for, include: SITE_NAME -
                    Proper name of the environmentally sensitive area;
                    CNCT_AGEN - Contact agency with interest and resource
                    expertise for the area; EMERG_PHON - 24-hour
                    emergency telephone number for the designating
                    agency with resource expertise for the area.  May
                    be a state emergency phone number; WATERBODY -
                    Waterbody(s) in or adjacent to the environmentally
                    sensitive area, where known; CATEGORY -
                    Designation category or program under which the
                    area was designated.  The sensitive areas in this
                    database have the same category names used by the
                    designating agencies, such as state wild and
                    scenic river, outstanding resource waters, nature
                    preserves, etc.; COUNTY - County in which the
                    environmentally sensitive area is located;  STREET -
                    Street address of the actual location of the
                    environmentally sensitive area;  CITY - City, or nearest,
                    nearest, where the special designated area is located; 
                    STATE - State in which the environmentally sensitive 
                    area is located;  ZIP_CODE - Zip code for the 
                    environmentally sensitive area;  CNCT_PHON -  A 
                    non-emergency telephone number for the agency with 
                    resource expertise for the area;  TWSP_RANGE - Location 
                    of the area by township and range locators (e.g.,
                    T00N_R00W), or township proper name;  SECTION -
                    Location by section, where available and located
                    within one section;  LOC_DESC (1-4) - Location
                    description of the environmentally sensitive area; 
                    COMMENT (1-4) - Additional information about the
                    environmentally sensitive area;  REF_NUMBER - Reference
                    number serving as a unique identifier for each
                    database record;  ACCURACY - An upgradeable
                    accuracy code for each database record: 
                    1=Excellent - verified at a scale of 1:1 to
                    1:20,000,  2=Very Good - verified at a scale of
                    1:20,001 to 1:60, 000,  3=Good - verified at a
                    scale of 1:60,001 to 1:200,000,  4=Fair - verified
                    at a scale of 1:200,001 to 1:1,000,000,  5=Coarse
                    - verified at a scale of greater than 1:1,000,000
                    or unverified;  VERIFIER - Name of the group that
                    verified the data (Great Lakes Commission [GLC]); 
                    VERIF_DATE - date on which the record accuracy was
                    verified;  ADM_ADDR [1-3] - Administrative mailing
                    address for the designating agency with resource
                    expertise.  Please note that the administrative
                    mailing address may be different than the contact
                    mailing address.
     5.2.2 Entity and Attribute Detail Citation:
                    Database items and definitions are from:  Inland
                    Sensitivity Mapping Project Reference Manual 
                    Database Field Structures, published August 11, 
                    2000, By the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                    -Region 5, the U.S. Geological Survey-Upper Midwest
                    Environmental Sciences Center, the Great Lakes 
                    Commission and the Upper Mississippi River Basin 
                    Association.
  6 Distribution Information
    6.1 Distributor
           10.1 Contact Person Primary
             10.1.1 Contact Person:
                    Thomas Rayburn
             10.1.2 Contact Organization:
                    Great Lakes Commission
           10.3 Contact Position:
                    Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning
           10.4 Contact Address
             10.4.1 Address Type:
                    Mailing and Physical Address
             10.4.2 Address:
                    400 Fourth Street
             10.4.2 Address:
                    The Argus II Building
             10.4.3 City:
                    Ann Arbor
             10.4.4 State or Province:
                    Michigan
             10.4.5 Postal Code:
                    48103-4816
             10.4.6 Country:
                    USA
           10.5 Contact Voice Telephone:
                    734-665-9135
           10.7 Contact Facsimile Telephone:
                    734-665-4370
           10.8 Contact Electronic Mail Address:
                    glc@great-lakes.net
           10.9 Hours of Service:
                    8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
           10.10 Contact Instructions:
                    Unavailable
    6.3 Distribution Liability:
                    Although these data have been processed
                    successfully on a computer system at the U.S.
                    Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or
                    implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility
                    of the data on any other system or for general or
                    scientific purposes, nor shall the act of
                    distribution constitute any such warranty. This
                    disclaimer applies both to individual use of the
                    data and aggregate use with other data.  It is
                    strongly recommended that these data are directly
                    acquired from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and
                    not indirectly through other sources which may
                    have changed the data in some way.  It is also
                    strongly recommended that careful attention be
                    paid to the contents of the metadata file
                    associated with these data.  The U.S. Geological
                    Survey shall not be held liable for improper or
                    incorrect use of the data described and/or
                    contained herein.
  7 Metadata Reference Information
   7.1 Metadata Date:
                    20000731
   7.2 Metadata Review Date:
                    20000927
   7.4 Metadata Contact:
           10.1 Contact Person Primary
             10.1.1 Contact Person:
                    Thomas Rayburn
             10.1.2 Contact Organization:
                    Great Lakes Commission
           10.3 Contact Position:
                    Project Manager, Area Contingency Planning
           10.4 Contact Address
             10.4.1 Address Type:
                    Mailing and Physical Address
             10.4.2 Address:
                    400 Fourth Street
             10.4.2 Address:
                    The Argus II Building
             10.4.3 City:
                    Ann Arbor
             10.4.4 State or Province:
                    Michigan
             10.4.5 Postal Code:
                    48103-4816
             10.4.6 Country:
                    USA
           10.5 Contact Voice Telephone:
                    734-665-9135
           10.7 Contact Facsimile Telephone:
                    734-665-4370
           10.8 Contact Electronic Mail Address:
                    glc@great-lakes.net
           10.9 Hours of Service:
                    8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
           10.10 Contact Instructions:
                    Unavailable
    7.5 Metadata Standard Name:
                    NBII Content Standard for National Biological
                    Information Infrastructure Metadata
    7.6 Metadata Standard Version:
                    NBII draft of December 1995, based on FGDC June 8,
                    1994.
    7.8 Metadata Access Constraints:
                    None
    7.9 Metadata Use Constraints:
                    None
    7.10 Metadata Security Information
     7.10.1 Metadata Security Classification System:
                    None
     7.10.2 Metadata Security Classification:
                    Unclassified
     7.10.3 Metadata Security Handling Description:
                    None