The National Estuary Program Coastal Condition Report (NEP CCR), a comprehensive report on the condition of the nations National Estuary Program (NEP) waters, is a collaborative effort among the individual NEPs and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys (EPAs) National Coastal Assessment (NCA), Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW), and Office of Research and Development (ORD). The first National Coastal Condition Report (NCCR I) (U.S. EPA, 2001) assessed the condition of the nations coasts using data from 19901996 that were provided by several existing coastal programs, including EPAs Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (FWSs) National Wetland Inventory (NWI), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAAs) National Status and Trends (NS&T) Program. The second in this series of reports, the National Coastal Condition Report II (NCCR II) (U.S. EPA, 2004a), assessed coastal condition using data from 19972000 that were provided by the NCA and the NWI. The NEP CCR is similar to the NCCR series in structure, but instead of assessing national coastal condition, it focuses specifically on the condition of the 28 NEP estuaries using NCA data collected from 1997 through 2003. The NEP CCR also presents recent monitoring data collected and analyzed by the individual NEPs for a variety of estuarine indicators.

Cover title. Publisher information from cover. "EPA 842-B-06-001 "--Cover. "2006"--Cover. Http://www.epa.gov/nccr -Cover. "Prepared by ... Office of Water (OW) and Office of Research and Development (ORD)."--Page i. "The EPA Project Manager for this document was Barry Burgan, who provided overall project coordination"--Page i. "The principal authors for this document were Barry Burgan and Virginia Engle, Technical Director of ORD's National Coastal Assessment (NCA) program within the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)."--Page i. "EPA was supported in the development of this document by RTI International (RTI) and Johnson Control World Services."--Page i. "The content of this report was contributed by EPA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the 28 individual NEPs and many local, state, and federal agencies."--Page i. "Special appreciation is extended to the following staff, who provided written materials, technical information, reviews and recommendations throughout the preparation of this document."--Page i. Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-445).