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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">For the past several months t</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">he
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Soils
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">workgroup of the
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Geoscience</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"> FIT has been working on an amended
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">(and accompanying statewide dataset) describing the Oregon Soils</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"> Data Standard. A draft of
this standard is now available for wider review by the Oregon framework community at
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/CIO/GEO/fit/geoscience/docs/Soils_Layer_Distribution_Draft-20150305a.docx">http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/CIO/GEO/fit/geoscience/docs/Soils_Layer_Distribution_Draft-20150305a.docx</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">The dataset will be made available on the Oregon Spatial Data Library soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">The draft soils data standard references the Oregon site specific soil mapping standard document, which is referenced below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/CIO/GEO/fit/geoscience/docs/Soils_Site_Specific_Mapping_Distribution_Draft-20090306.pdf">http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/CIO/GEO/fit/geoscience/docs/Soils_Site_Specific_Mapping_Distribution_Draft-20090306.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">The
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">draft
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Oregon Soils</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A"> Data Standard will be open for review until May
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">29</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A">, 2015. Comments on the draft should be directed to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ian J. Reid<br>
GIS Specialist<br>
USDA-NRCS Oregon State Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Bob DenOuden, GISP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Oregon GIS Framework Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">DAS/CIO Geospatial Enterprise Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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