This proposed report to Congress was prepared as a 22-volume compendium and was directed by Section 10 of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (Pub. L. 97-38). It was compiled under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks by the Coastal Barriers Study Group, a task force of professionals representing the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and other Departmental offices. Volume 1 of the report describes the CBRS and discusses all the conservation and management alternatives that might be appropriate for the CBRS. It is a revised version of the document released in 1985 (“Coastal Barrier Resources System Draft Report to Congress”) for public comment. 

Volumes 2-22 of this report contain background information about each State's or Territory's coastal barriers coastal barriers
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Learn more about coastal barriers , maps of those barriers, and proposed recommendations for specific additions to and deletions from the CBRS in those States or Territories. The proposed recommendations in these Volumes were prepared after Departmental study and review of the public comments on the draft 1985 National inventory of undeveloped coastal barriers (see above). The Executive Summary outlines the Department's proposed general recommendations for changes to the CBRS and presents the proposed conservation alternatives selected from Volume 1.

This report was followed by the Department’s 1988 Report to Congress: Coastal Barrier Resources System, which addressed public comments and contained recommendations to Congress.