National Ocean Council, EPA Seek Input to Develop Federal Ocean .

information sessions and public forums throughout National Ocean Month are to aid the Obama administration in gaining public input as it develops the country`s first policies geared toward the nation`s fragile ocean areas.

The information sessions and public forums will be held in office by the EPA along with the National Ocean Council and other environmental partners and federal agencies. In total, 12 different sessions will have place across the area starting next week, with two of the sessions focusing specifically on the Great Lakes Region, in coaction with the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Gulf of Mexico, which was hit by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill last class and recently experienced the one-year anniversary this past April.

The EPA noted this proclamation was break of President Barack Obama`s action to make a national ocean policy. According to Environment News Service, President Obama established the ocean policy last July in rank to make a collective effort to do the country`s coasts, oceans, and the connecting Great Lakes. The policy, which focuses on the grandness of marine ecosystems, also officially created the National Ocean Council.

As celebrated by the ENS article, in the annunciation of Obama`s establishment of the national ocean policy, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said, "The new national policy provides a clear road map for all federal agencies to play together, with local partners, to protect our vital waters for succeeding generations."

The press release also emphasised that the information sessions and public forums are vital to developing a functional and successful national ocean policy and these public information sessions are partly of the a month-long comment period being held by the National Ocean Council.

According to the National Ocean Council website, the former information sessions will have position between June 9 and July 1; locations include Washington, D.C. Barrow and Anchorage, Alaska. Chicago; Honolulu; San Francisco; and Portland, Ore. However, the EPA and National Ocean Council are encouraging members of the world who can`t see a sitting to take their comments.

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