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Groundwater Recharge and Pollution Susceptibility Areas: The Georgia Planning Act requires that land-use ordinances be made in an attempt to protect ground water, be passed and enforced by local governments having jurisdiction over significant groundwater recharge areas. Within significant recharge areas, the relative degree of protection required is further defined on the basis of whether the area has high pollution susceptibility. Southern Ecological Framework: The Southeastern Ecological Framework is landscape ecology based model that identifies primary ecological areas that are protected by some type of conservation or ecosystem management program; identifies a green infrastructure network that connects these primary ecological areas. Priority Ecological Areas provide excellent candidates for Regionally Important Resources and SEF corridors provide excellent connecting green infrastructure linkages between them. DCA has converted these from the original grid model to vectors and clipped them to the Georgia state boundary for easy use in regional planning applications. Complete documentation of SEF, with Georgia application examples, is available in the EPA Final Report (5-20-2010) Protected River Protected River River Corridor Protection Plans are required for designated streams by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Rules for Environmental Planning Criteria 391-3-16-.04 and are also a DCA-required natural resources planning element. This is a DCA-compiled map that differs substantially from the 'Corridor' coverage in the 'Digital Environmental Atlas of Georgia' (Georgia Geologic Survey Publication CD-1). The DNR map (compiled by the USGS) errantly contains river reservoir areas and does not include all of the stream segments downstream to the jurisdiction of the Coastal Marshland Protection Act area. (1-3-2003) Protected Mountain: As required by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources- Environmental Protection Division- Rules for Environmental Planning Criteria 391-3-16-.05. Mountain protection is also a DCA-required natural resources planning element. This is a DCA-compiled map, based on analysis of the 1:24,000-scale National Elevation Dataset. (3-15-2002) This layer is used in map(s): Environmental Planning