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Stakeholder Review Period Open for Digital Conversion Maps for CBRS Units in Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announces a 30-day comment period for Federal, State, and local officials to provide input on draft revised maps for 14 of the CBRS units in Louisiana, and for all of the units in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The CBRS boundaries for these areas have been transferred to updated base maps and the boundaries have been modified to reflect natural changes in the size or location of the CBRS units. The comment period will close on November 10, 2016. Learn more.

Public Comment Period Closed for CBRS Maps in Gulf and Bay Counties, Florida and Monmouth and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) held a 45-day comment period for six John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS) draft revised maps. The draft maps, dated May 16, 2016, are for four CBRS units located in Gulf and Bay Counties, Florida, and for six CBRS units located in Monmouth and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey. We invited the public to review the draft maps and provide input to the Service. The Service will make any appropriate changes based on the comments received and will prepare final recommended maps for Congressional consideration. The final recommended maps will become effective only if they are adopted by Congress through legislation. Learn more.

Final Digital Conversion Maps Available for CBRS Units in 10 States
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has conducted a digital conversion and 5-year review and prepared final revised maps for all of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System units in Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Wisconsin, the Great Lakes region of New York, 125 units in Florida, and 7 units in Louisiana. We held a 30-day comment period on the draft maps for Federal, State, and local stakeholders, from November 17, 2015 through December 17, 2015. Several comments were received from stakeholders during the comment period. The Service assessed the comments received during the comment period and officially adopted the final revised maps upon publication of a second notice in the Federal Register (81 FR 13407) on March 14, 2016. Click here to access the final revised maps and for more information.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Congress recognized that certain actions and programs of the Federal Government have historically subsidized and encouraged development on coastal barriers, resulting in the loss of natural resources; threats to human life, health, and property; and the expenditure of millions of tax dollars each year. To remove the federal incentive to develop these areas, the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA) of 1982 designated relatively undeveloped coastal barriers along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts as part of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS), and made these areas ineligible for most new federal expenditures and financial assistance. CBRA encourages the conservation of hurricane prone, biologically rich coastal barriers by restricting federal expenditures that encourage development, such as federal flood insurance. Areas within the CBRS can be developed provided that private developers or other non-federal parties bear the full cost.

CBRS Mapping Projects by State

Click on a state in the table below to see the CBRS mapping project(s) affecting each state.

Alabama	Connecticut	Delaware
Florida	Georgia	Louisiana
Maine	Maryland	Massachusetts
Michigan	Minnesota	Mississippi
New Jersey	New York G.L.	New York L.I.
North Carolina	Ohio	Puerto Rico
Rhode Island	South Carolina	Texas
Virgin Islands	Virginia	Wisconsin