The Outer Continental Shelf Description contains attributes for the primary division of the Outer Continental Shelf into describable areas.

BUSINESS RULES:

1. Outer Continental Shelf Descriptions are divided into either Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagrams or Leasing Maps.

ATTRIBUTES:

Outer Continental Shelf Description ID

The Outer Continental Shelf Description ID is the primary key, which identifies each record in the Outer Continental Shelf Description ID entity.

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Leasing Map Designator

Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Maps are cadastres based on a coastal State's NAD 27 State Plane Coordinate System. The seaward projection of a State Plane Coordinate System onto the Outer Continental Shelf is based on the Lambert Conformal Conic Projection. These diagrams depict approved subdivisions of the Outer Continental Shelf in survey feet offshore of portions of California, Louisiana, and Texas.

The Leasing Maps are designated by alpha-numeric codes. The first two character positions are alpha characters that correspond to the two letter abbreviation for the State, LA for Louisiana, TX for Texas, and CA for California. Subsequent characters are alpha-numeric characters for the Map.

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Leasing Map Name

The Leasing Map Name is the name of the map as it appears on the actual Lease Map. Area names for Leasing Maps were originally assigned by the Bureau of Land Management.

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Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagram

Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagrams are constructed on the Universal Transverse Mercator grid system. They are diagrams showing approved subdivisions of the Outer Continental Shelf. For more information see Explanatory Note 1 at the end of this section.

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Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagram Name

The Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagram Name is the official geographic or proper name assigned by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to the specific portion of the Outer Continental Shelf depicted on the Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagram. Outer Continental Shelf Official Protraction Diagrams without names certified by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names remain unnamed."

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Legal Area Description ID

The Legal Area Description ID is a foreign key which points to a record in the Record Boundary entity, where information about the Legal Area Description can be found.

Domain: numeric

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