Scope

The SCA region of interest aligns with the RESTORE Act-identified Gulf Coast Region (GCR), an area of approximately 700,000 km2 (Figure 1). The GCR encompasses coastal parts of Alabama (AL), Louisiana (LA), Mississippi (MS), Texas (TX), and all of Florida (FL). This geographic extent was created using the coastal management zone area in the five Gulf states, plus a 40.2 km inland buffer. Some of the plans within the catalog extended outside these limits but were included if benefits directly occurred within the SCA region.

Figure 1. Overview of the Gulf Coast Region (GCR). The GCR includes all of the coastal counties, plus 40.2 km inland of the coast including the barrier islands as shown in red outline.