Welcome to NOAA's Estuary Restoration Act (ERA) Web site.  NOAA is one of the members of the interagency Council implementing the Estuary Restoration Act, and is the lead agency for the restoration project database and monitoring protocols required by the ERA.

The Estuary Restoration Act was passed into law in November of 2000, and makes restoring our estuaries a national priority. The interagency Council implementing the Act published a Strategy in December of 2002, with the goal of restoring one million acres of estuarine habitat by the year 2010.  Progress toward the goal is being tracked via NOAA's National Estuaries Restoration Inventory.

This site provides information on activities mandated by the Act, as well as related projects and resources that serve to support the goal of restoring one million acres of estuarine habitat.  These include a restoration plan database, and A National Strategy to Restore Coastal and Estuarine Habitat, published by Restore America's Estuaries as a companion document to the ERA Council Strategy.

•  Restore America's Estuaries National Strategy Document •  Principles of Estuarine Habitat Restoration • Restoration Plan Database