The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. The Coastal Zone Information Center (CZIC) collection provides access to nearly 5,000 coastal related documents that the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) received from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library. The collection provides almost 30 years of data and information crucial to the understanding of U.S. coastal management and NOAA's mission to sustain healthy coasts. This is one of their documents.

The Hawaii Coastal Zone Management (CZM) program, through the Office fo State Planning (OSP), requested Oceanit Laboratories, Inc. to support the development of an erosion management program (EMP) by analyzing relevant information and recommending program guidelines and objectives. Additionally, we were requested to recommend a suitable method for the collection of coastal information (e.g., erosion rates), which would later become an integral part of the EMP ...