1. Oregon
Marine Spatial Planning
Overview and Update
Paul Klarin, Marine Program Coordinator
Department of Land Conservation and Development
May 2012

2. Where We Started

3. WAKE UP CALL!!!

4. Oregon’s MSP Progress
How we got here:
Governor’s Executive Order - March 2008
Oregon FERC MOU - March 2008
TSP Part 5 Adopted - November 2009
President’s Executive Order – June 2009
Oregon BOEMRE Task Force – March 2011
Marine Reserves System – May 2012

5. Oregon’s Ocean Management Program
Statewide Land Use Ocean Resources
Planning Program Management Program
ORS 197 ORS 196
Ocean Policy
Goal 19 Advisory
Ocean Resources Council
State Agency Territorial
Authorities Sea Plan

7. FERC – Wave Energy
BOEMRE

8. Goal 19 Ocean Resources
 “conserve marine resources and ecological
functions for the purpose of providing long-
term ecological, economic, and social value and
benefits”
 “conserve marine resources and ecological
functions for the purpose of providing long-
term ecological, economic, and social values and
benefits and to give higher priority to the
protection of renewable marine resources--i.e.,
living marine organisms-than to the
development of non-renewable ocean
resources.”
http://www.lcd.state.or.us/LCD/goals.shtml#Statewide_Planning_Goals

9. Goal 19 Ocean Resources
Requires:
PROTECT: Renewable Marine Resources –
i.e. Living Marine Organisms
 Biological Diversity & Functional Integrity
of the Marine Ecosystem - Important
Marine Habitat
 Areas Important to Fisheries – commercial
and recreational – sector and port
 Beneficial Uses: Navigation, Recreation,
Food Production, Aesthetic, Seafloor Uses.

10. “Oregon places special emphasis on
conserving renewable ocean
resources because these are
expected to provide greater long-term
benefits to the state from food
production, recreation, aesthetic
enjoyment, navigation, and
ecosystem stability than non-
renewable marine resources.”
Part One of the Oregon Territorial Sea Plan
http://www.lcd.state.or.us/LCD/OCMP/Ocean_TSP.shtml

11. Oregon Territorial Sea Plan
Part One: Ocean Management Goals
The overall ocean management goal of the State of Oregon is to: Conserve
the long-term values, benefits, and natural resources of the nearshore
ocean and the continental shelf.
To achieve this goal, the State of Oregon will:
 1. give higher priority to the protection of renewable marine
resources than to the development of non-renewable ocean resources;
 2. support development of ocean resources that is environmentally
sound and economically beneficial to coastal communities and the
state;
 3. protect the diversity of marine life, the functions of the marine
ecosystem, the diversity of marine and estuarine habitats, and the overall
health of the marine environment; and
 4. seek the conservation of ocean resources within the larger marine
region that is of ecologic and economic interest to the State of Oregon.

15. Research Instrumentation

17. Recreation

18. Aesthetic Enjoyment

21. Biogeographic Assessment Approach
Biogeographic Assessment Approach
Biogeographic Example Integrated Products to Aid
Data Layers Biogeographic Analyses* Management
* Specific analyses targeted to management needs
Analytical Products to Meet Management Objectives
Combine Biogeographic Layers for Analysis
Defining and analyzing
existing conditions
Imagery
Patterns of
Human Use
Bottom Type Defining and analyzing
future conditions
Bathymetry
Oceanography Threatened
Evaluate alternative
Habitats
management strategies
(e.g. zoning)
Species
Distributions
(many layers)
NOAA Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment - Biogeography Branch

22. Overview: Geospatial Analysis to derive
Areas Protected by Goal 19
Data Layers
Goal 19 Criteria
Intersected
Areas of Biological Identify Areas of Existing Uses or Areas for
with the or Ecological Importance. Importance to Fisheries special management.
Planning Grid
+
+
+
B&E Exclusion Areas Fishery Exclusion Areas Current Use or Management
Exclusion Areas
Areas of Opportunity
(to be evaluated) + + +
=
????’s
Areas of Protection under Goal 19

23. MarineMap – Coming up Next!
Http://Oregon.MarineMap.org
Acknowledgements: Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon Dept. of Land
Conservation and Development, Ecotrust, Oregon Wave Energy Trust

24. Planning Grid Overlays
Started Here Summary
Map Layers
+
GIS
Public
Input
Data
LCDC
TSPAC TSP
OPAC Public Input
Work
Group
Resource Use
Public Input
Goal 19
Public Input
Draft Areas Areas
Plan

25. Outline:
 Draft Plan
 Framework – Area Definition
 Area composition (Draft)
 Marine Recreation Conservation Area
 Visual Assessment Analysis Framework
 Overlay OWET Feasibility Map

26. Draft Recommendation for TSP Amendment
Marine Renewable Marine Conservation Marine Resource Use Marine Resource
Energy Exclusion Area Management Area Development Area
Area
Objective: To Objective: Protect Objective: To identify
protect existing important, unique, or Objective: To maintain areas of least use
permitted uses vulnerable Goal 19 the long term use and conflict for the
and special ocean resources or health of the area by development of
management uses. managing for a broad Marine Renewable
areas under Goal range of Goal 19 ocean Energy Facilities.
19 Ocean resources and uses.
Resources.
Area identified for the
protection of Goal 19 Minimize the impacts of
Resources. Any Maintain the status quo for development to existing
development in this users of the environment. users and the natural
No development of area must demonstrate Demonstrate that the resources remains, This
marine renewable no reasonably proposed use of the area area has been identified
energy will be foreseeable adverse will not conflict with the for testing and
permitted in these effect to the identified existing users, or have developing marine
distinct areas. Goal 19 resources. significant adverse effect renewable energy.
to the Goal 19 resources
or uses within the area.
Screening
standards Visual Resource Overlay - Impact Assessment Analysis
applied across
all areas Marine Recreation Overlay Area
Will not be permitted.
Higher Permit Standards Lower

27. Marine Renewable Energy Exclusion
Zones
Objective: To protect already Resource Inventory
permitted uses and special Layers Included:
management areas under • Dredge Material Disposal Sites
• Commercial Shipping Lanes
Goal 19. (Deep & Shallow draft)
• Coastal Discharge Outfalls
• Coastal National Wildlife Refuges
 No MRE development will
• OR Islands National Wildlife
Refuges
• Research Cables and
be allowed Infrastructure
• Existing State Designated Marine
Managed Areas
• Undersea Telecommunication
Cables
• Existing Marine Renewable
Energy Permits
• Ocean Outfalls

28. Marine Conservation Area
Objective: To protect unique, Resource Inventory
important, or vulnerable Goal Layers Included:
19 resources or uses • Areas of Greatest
Importance to Fisheries
• Ocean Recreation
 Any MRE development must Hotspots
• Kelp Beds
demonstrate no adverse effects to • Subtidal Rocky Reef
identified Goal 19 resources or •
•
Rock Shores Habitat
Pinniped Haulout
uses. • Steller Sea Lion Critical
Habitat
• Nesting Seabird Colonies
• Snowy Plover Critical
Habitat
• Level I Marxan (core
hotspots)

29. Marine Resource Use Management Area
Objective: To maintain the long term
use and health of the area by a
broad range of Goal 19 uses and
Resource Inventory
resources. Layers Included:
 Maintain the status quo for Goal • Oceanographic Research
19 uses and resources. Any MRE • Crabber Tugboat Agreement
lanes
development must demonstrate •
•
Ocean Recreation
Gray Whale Foraging Area
no significant adverse effects, to •
•
Marbled Murrelet Foraging
Level II Marxan (core hotspots)
the extent possible, to those • Areas of Great Importance to
Fisheries
resources or uses.

30. Marine Resource Development Area
Objective: Indicates an area of least
use conflict for the development of
Marine Renewable Energy Facilities.
 While the goal of minimizing the Resource Inventory
impacts of development to Goal Layers Included:
19 uses and resources remains, • Navigational Aides
this is an area that has been • Inactive Dredge Material
Disposal Sites
identified for the testing and
development of marine renewable
energy.

31. Marine Recreation Conservation Area Overlay
Proposal: To include a shoreline to 300m offshore zone that would
serve as a plan overlay for the review of adverse effects to the
existing shoreline and ocean recreation community.
Designed to cover shore-land bound marine recreation activities.
 Proposed criteria to apply to this overlay:
 project has significant adverse impact IF:
○ access is denied or impeded,
○ there are safety/health issues or
○ if there would be reasonable foreseeable adverse impacts/effects on
the natural environment that the recreational community depends upon
(like beach users depend on the beach, could be impacted by
sediment transport issues...increased erosion etc.)
 within this area, need to use best available data (e.g., OPRD
data for beach, locations of state parks and other recreation
areas)

32. Visual Impact Assessment Analysis Overlay
The visual impact assessment framework by OPRD
will serve as a model framework for the evaluation of
impacts.
 In the planning phase of work, all view shed sites
included in the inventory will be given a class rating
 That rating will be used in the regulatory phase to
evaluate impacts to any viewpoint in the inventory.

33. The Planning Phase:
 Determine scenic quality
• Measure of visual appeal based on key
factors: Seascape, vegetation, color,
adjacent scenery, scarcity, and cultural
modification.
 Determine sensitivity
• Measure of public concern for scenic
quality: type of users, amount of use,
public interest, adjacent land use, special
areas, and other factors.
• Park users are considered to have high
user sensitivity.
 Determine distance zone
• Seascapes divided into distanced zones
based on relative visibility from
observation points.
 Determine visual resource classes
• Combination of scenic quality, sensitivity
and distance zone

34. Objectives for Visual Resource
Classes
 Class I:
 Preserve the existing character of the seascape
 Does not preclude very limited management activity.
 The level of change to the characteristic seascape should be very low and must not
attract attention.
 Class II:
 Retain the existing character of the seascape.
 The level of should be low.
 Management activities may be seen, but should not attract the attention of the
casual observer.
 Class III:
 Partially retain the existing character of the seascape.
 The level of change should be moderate.
 Management activities may attract attention but should not dominate the view of the
casual observer.
 Class IV:
 Provide for management activities which require major modifications
 The level of change to the characteristic seascape can be high.
 Management activities may dominate the view and be the major focus of viewer
attention.

35. The Project Review Phase:
 Visual simulations
 Contrast evaluation to
determine potential
impact of project on
scenic resources
 JART review of contrast
evaluation to determine
consistency with visual
resource class
objectives.

43. To Be Continued…