2009 NOAA Coastal Services Center Coastal Resource Management Customer Survey

2009 NOAA Coastal Services Center Coastal Resource Management Customer Survey

Dear Colleague,

This letter is to inform you of the 2009 NOAA Coastal Services Center Custom Service and
invite your participation. The mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) Coastal Services Center is to support the environmental, social, and economic well
being of the coast by linking people, information, and technology. To better serve the nation’s
coastal resource managers, we must learn about their issues, information needs, and
technological capabilities. At the NOAA Coastal Services Center, we gather this information in
a variety of ways, one of the most important being the triennial Coastal Resource Management
Customer Survey.
The Coastal Resource Management Customer Survey is sent to offices of state coastal
management programs and state departments of natural resources (or equivalent agencies)
responsible for coastal resource management, National Estuarine Research Reserves, Sea Grant
College Programs, National Estuary Programs, allied programs and non-profit and nongovernmental organizations. You may be one of several people in your organization that
receives the survey. Each survey has an identification number for the sole purpose of tracking
which surveys have been returned. No names of individuals will be placed on any documents or
used in any reports generated from this project.
The public burden for this collection of information (i.e., time required to complete this survey)
is estimated to average 15 minutes, including time for reviewing instructions, searching existing
data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the
collection information. If you have questions or comments regarding this burden estimate or any
other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden,
please contact our survey coordinator Chris Ellis: by mail, at NOAA Coastal Services Center,
2234 South Hobson Avenue, Charleston, SC 29405; by telephone, at (843) 740-1195; or via
email, at Chris.Ellis@noaa.gov. We hope you will be able to offer us a moment of your time to
complete the survey.
The survey will be administered online, though printed copies for mail submission will be
available on request. You will be receiving the survey link within the next month. We kindly
ask that you respond by DATE.
Thank you in advance for your participation. Your input is extremely valuable and will help us
do a better job of planning for and serving your needs. You will be notified when the final
survey report is posted on the Web.
Sincerely,

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NOAA Coastal Services Center