The beta version of COAST has been used to employ adaptive management for water-quality decisions related to agriculture and urban lands and include:

• The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is using COAST to identify priority agriculture areas within the Chesapeake Bay watershed to enhance funding from the 2008 Farm Bill.
• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and states in the Bay watershed are using information from COAST to help select projects to reduce nutrients from urban areas utilizing funds from the 2009 Stimulus Bill.
• The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Maryland Bay Trust Fund are also using information fromCOAST to help identify areas in which to focus and assess efforts to reduce nutrients from agricultural and urban areas.

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• Maryland Baystat