Appendices & Supplemental Information

Water: Beach Grants

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1A Oversight: 1A1 Beach guidance review team (2002 Guidance)
1B Statute and Regulation: 1B1 BEACH Act (2002 Guidance)
1C Science Background: 1C1 Science Background: Indicator organisms; epidemiological studies & references (2002 Guidance)
1D Recreational Criteria & Science Plan. EPA is working to develop new recreational criteria. A number of documents are available as a result of EPA's recent efforts.: 1D1 Critical Path Science Plan and Criteria Development Plan (Supplemental Materials)

2A Beach Grants.: BEACH Act grants are awarded to eligible coastal and Great Lakes states, territories, and tribes to develop and implement beach monitoring and notification programs.; 2A1 EPA Grant Coordinators (Supplemental Materials); 2A2 Federal Register Notice (Supplemental Materials)

3A Beach Identification, Evaluation, and Classification: 3A1 Beach Evaluation and Classification List (2002 Guidance)
3A2 List of Beaches (Supplemental Materials)
3B Conducting a Sanitary Survey. Sanitary surveys are important to determine sources of beach contamination.: 3B1 Great Lakes Sanitary Survey (Supplemental Materials—2008)
3B2 Other Beach Sanitary Surveys (Supplemental Materials—2008)
3B3 Comparison of Other Sanitary Surveys (Supplemental Materials—2008)
3C Beach Definition and Examples
3D Source Tracking: 3D1 Source Tracking Information (Supplemental Materials—2008)

4A Beach Data. Collection of beach monitoring data is an important requirement of the BEACH Act and is addressed in the guidance document.: 4A1 Data
4B Beach "Monitoring": 4B1 Data quality & sampling design (2002 Guidance); 4B2 Sample Collection (2002 Guidance); 4B3 EMPACT Report (see The EMPACT Beaches Project under Recreational Water Publications) (Supplemental Materials—2005)
4C Beach Modeling: 4C1 Predictive Models (2002 Guidance)
4D Source Tracking: 4D1 Source Tracking Information (Supplemental Materials—2008)
4E Training: 4E1 Training (2002 Guidance)

5A Beach Notification: 5A1 Beach Notification—Effective Practices (Supplemental Materials)