{"thcode":23,"term":{"code":80,"name":"Governance","parent":6,"scope":"The boundaries of geographic areas that are defined for governmental, administrative, or management purposes. Governance data for marine planning are those that identify governance entities that have effects on environmental processes or human activities that impact the coast, Great Lakes, or ocean. Distributions are maps representing authoritative boundaries (for examples, see http:\/\/marinecadastre.gov). Assessments are maps showing theoretical boundaries resulting from models, evaluations, or scenario-testing; or they are modeled values of bounded regions. Predictions are maps showing predicted boundaries based on expected outcomes or driven by variable parameters; or they are models predicting impacts of moving boundaries. All Governance data share these definitions for Distributions, Assessments, and Predictions."},"uf":[],"bt":[{"code":6,"name":"Data Content Subjects","parent":1,"scope":"Environmental characteristics and processes as well as human activities that use, rely on, or impact those features."},{"code":1,"name":"Data Categories for Marine Planning","parent":null,"scope":"Categories indicating the breadth of information types required for ocean planning from a national, multidisciplinary perspective. Published in USGS Open-File Report 2015-1046, doi:10.3133\/ofr20151046"}],"nt":[{"code":83,"name":"Commercial Leases","parent":80,"scope":"Commercial Leases data delineate areas where special-use allocations are established by contracts that define who has permission to carry out particular activities in an area or zone defined by the contract."},{"code":82,"name":"De Facto MPAs","parent":80,"scope":"De Facto MPAs data delineate areas where human access and activities are restricted for reasons other than conservation. Examples include military operating areas, safety zones around offshore energy production facilities, industrial exclusion zones, and shellfish closures for water-quality reasons (http:\/\/marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov)."},{"code":84,"name":"Jurisdictional Boundaries","parent":80,"scope":"Jurisdictional Boundaries data delineate domestic, tribal, and international areas established by a law or treaty that determines who has the authority to interpret, apply, and enforce the laws within those areas."},{"code":81,"name":"Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)","parent":80,"scope":"Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) data delineate areas where some or all of the natural and cultural resources are given a heightened level of protection through regulation or other effective means in order to achieve conservation or societal goals (http:\/\/marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov)."},{"code":86,"name":"Regulatory Use Restrictions","parent":80,"scope":"Regulatory Use Restrictions data delineate specific locations for which some uses are restricted in order to meet regulatory goals (for example, regions in which Total Maximum Daily Loads have been defined for particular pollutants)."},{"code":85,"name":"Tribally Governed Areas","parent":80,"scope":"Tribally Governed Areas data delineate specific regions under the sovereignty of American Indian tribes who determine policy, actions, and other affairs."}],"rt":[]}