Resources: Beaches

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Helpful Beaches Web pages

• Beaches Home page
• Beach Monitoring and Notification
• Legislation and Policy
• Beaches Grants page
• Data User Corner (off of the grants page)
• Beaches Meetings and Events
• Beach Sanitary Surveys
• Contacts for Beaches
• Clean Water Act Tribal Training

Helpful Beaches Documents/Guidance

• Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000
  (Public Law 106–284 106th Congress, October 2000)
• National Beach Guidance and Required Performance Criteria for Grants
  (EPA-823-B-02-004, July 2002)
• Great Lakes Beach Sanitary Survey User Manual (PDF) (81 pp, 491K)
  (EPA-823-B-06-001, May 2008)
• Action Plan for Beaches and Recreational Waters (PDF) (27 pp, 1.2MB)
  (EPA/600/R-98/079, March 1999)