Stakeholder surveys

Survey of Coastal Management Program Partners and Stakeholders

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management (OCM) conducts periodic evaluations of state coastal management programs as required by the Coastal Zone Management Act.

As part of the evaluation of the [name of state] coastal management program, the Office for Coastal Management would like to obtain your perspective and opinion on the program's implementation and activities.The evaluation will cover the time period of [Month 20XX to Month 20XX]. Please note that the word “you” in the following questions refers to an organization or a person, as appropriate.

Regarding privacy, your responses will not be linked to your name. A summary report that includes combined survey responses will be made available to the program and will be made available to the public upon a Freedom of Information Act request.

If there are questions that do not apply to you, or questions you do not wish to answer, you may skip them.

Thank you for your participation in this survey.

1. How would you characterize the coastal management program's management of the state's coastal

zone?
[Choice of radial buttons for Excellent, Good, Adequate, Poor, Very Poor, and No Opinion. Also, Comment Box]

2. What are the coastal management program's top one to three accomplishments?

[Three comment boxes]

3. What are the top one to three coastal management challenges? (external obstacles and/or issues)?

[Three comment boxes]

4. What are the coastal management program's top one to three strengths in implementing the state coastal management program?

[Three comment boxes]

5. What are the coastal management program's top one to three weaknesses in implementing the state coastal management program? (internal obstacles and/or issues)

[Three comment boxes]

6. How effective is the permit process in balancing development and environmental protection?

[Choice of radial buttons for Excellent, Good, Adequate, Poor, Very Poor, and No Opinion. Also, Comment Box]

7. If you have applied for a permit, how would you rate the permit assistance provided by the program?

[Choice of radial buttons for Excellent, Good, Adequate, Poor, Very Poor, and No Opinion. Also, Comment Box]

8. How well does the federal consistency process work?

[Choice of radial buttons for Excellent, Good, Adequate, Poor, Very Poor, and No Opinion.]

9. Discuss your rating of the federal consistency process in terms of what is working well and what is not working well.

[Comment box]

10. What are the coastal management program’s top one to three opportunities to make a bigger impact in the future? (Locally, regionally, and/or nationally)

[Three comment boxes]

11. Is there anything else you would like to share?

[Comment box]

12. Choose the category which best describes who you represent.

[Choice of radial buttons for Local Government, State Government, Federal Government, Business/Industry, Nonprofit/Nongovernmental Organization/Academia, and other.]

OMB Control # 0648-0661, expires 8/31/2019. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 15 minutes per completed survey. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Carrie Hall, NOAA NOS/OCM/PPC, 1305 East-West Hwy., N/OCM1, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. A summary report of the survey results will be provided to the coastal management program and will be available to the public upon request. Responses to this survey are voluntary. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act unless that collection displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Number.