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&lt;div style='font-family: inherit; padding-bottom: 0.375rem; max-width: 100%; display: inherit;'&gt;The National Estuary Program (NEP) is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency place-based program to protect and restore the water quality and ecological integrity of estuaries of national significance. Currently, 28 estuaries located along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts and in Puerto Rico are designated as estuaries of national significance. For more information about the National Estuary Program, visit&amp;nbsp;&lt;a style='color: #00619b; text-decoration-line: none; font-family: inherit;' href='https://epa.gov/nep' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'&gt;https://epa.gov/nep&lt;/a&gt;.
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&lt;span style='font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;'&gt;This feature layer contains callout labels for the&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;28 NEP study area boundaries.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style='font-family: inherit;'&gt;This layer is integrated into the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style='color: #00619b; text-decoration-line: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;' href='https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/21d284ac2563413d879d295668d38369' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'&gt;NEPmap Dashboard&lt;/a&gt;, which provides users with map visualization of NEP projects along with several other layers to provide geographic context.&lt;/div&gt;
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