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                <title>NCSS Contacts Map App</title>
                <onlink>https://nrcs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=74edca97f52f4b4e95cfd53d648967df</onlink>
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            <abstract>The National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) is a nationwide partnership of Federal, regional, State, and local agencies and private entities and institutions. This partnership works to cooperatively investigate, inventory, document, classify, interpret, disseminate, and publish information about soils. NCSS standards are common or shared procedures that enhance technology transfer, data sharing, and communications among soil survey participants.&amp;nbsp;NCSS cooperators collaborate on efforts to increase our understanding of soils through field studies, soil mapping projects, soil database development, and other technical soil services.&amp;nbsp;NCSS Region Boundaries 2024NCSS Contacts States 2024NCSS Regions MapThe National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) is a nationwide partnership dedicated to soils since 1899!&amp;nbsp;National Cooperative Soil Survey</abstract>
            <purpose>National Cooperative Soil Survey contacts info at the regional and state levels.</purpose>
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            <theme>
                <themekt>ISO 19115 Topic Categories</themekt>
                <themekey>biota</themekey>
            </theme>
            <theme>
                <themekt>None</themekt>
                <themekey>Soil survey</themekey>
                <themekey>NCSS</themekey>
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        <accconst>None</accconst>
        <useconst>This feature layer is provided by the USDA - NRCS Soil and Plant Science Division (SPSD) “as is” and might contain errors or omissions. The user assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data and bears all responsibility in determining whether this data is fit for the user’s intended use. The information contained in this layer is dynamic and may change over time. This layer is not better than the sources from which they were derived, and both scale and accuracy may vary across the data set. This layer might not have the accuracy, resolution, completeness, timeliness, or other characteristics appropriate for applications that potential users of the data may contemplate. The user is encouraged to carefully consider the content of the metadata file associated with these data. These data are neither legal documents nor land surveys, and must not be used as such. USDA-NRCS should be cited as the data source in any products derived from this layer. Any users wishing to modify the data should describe the types of modifications they have performed. The user should not misrepresent the data, nor imply that changes made were approved or endorsed by USDA-NRCS. This data may be updated by the USDA-NRCS without notification.</useconst>
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                    <cntorg>National Soil Survey Center</cntorg>
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                    <addrtype>mailing and physical</addrtype>
                    <address>1121 Lincoln Mall, Suite 230</address>
                    <city>Lincoln</city>
                    <state>NE</state>
                    <postal>68508-3866</postal>
                    <country>US</country>
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                <cntemail>soilshotline@usda.gov</cntemail>
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