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How do you define our region? Is it the "five
core" counties? Is it the ARC 10? Is it the MSA
28? How the region is defined largely depends upon
the need for the definition. The
following table will provide you with some of the most
commonly used regional definitions.
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REGIONAL DESCRIPTION |
ACRONYM |
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COUNTIES |
COUNTIES INCLUDED |
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Regional Development Center - Designated by State
law to be the area-wide planning agency for all federal
and state programs which require or encourage area wide
planning. There are 16 RDCs in Georgia. The RDC for the
Atlanta area is called the Atlanta Regional Commission. |
RDC |
10 |
Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb Douglas, Fayette,
Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, and Rockdale.
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The Atlanta Regional Commission is the regional
planning and intergovernmental coordination agency for
city of Atlanta and the ten county area surrounding
Atlanta |
ARC |
10 |
Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb Douglas, Fayette,
Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, and Rockdale.
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Workforce Development Area - A seven-county area
crated by agreement of county chief-elected officials,
administered by the ARC and funded for training and
employment activities under the federal Workforce
Investment Act. The Atlanta Regional Workforce Board is
responsible for providing policy guidance for the
Workforce Investment Service Area as designated by the
Governor. |
WFD |
7 |
Cherokee, Clayton, Douglas, Fayette, Gwinnett, Henry and
Rockdale |
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Metropolitan Planning Organization - A federally
designated area for regional transportation planning to
meet air quality standards and for programming projects
to implement the adopted Regional Transportation Plan.
The area includes the 10-county Regional Development
Center (ARC) and eight additional counties. The area
takes into consideration both the current urbanized
areas as well as areas forecast to become urbanized
through the year 2030. |
MPO |
18 |
All of
Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas,
Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry and Rockdale,
and parts of Barrow, Bartow, Newton, Spalding and
Walton. |
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Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District |
MNWPD |
15 |
Bartow, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb Douglas,
Fayette, Forsyth Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Paulding
and Rockdale. |
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Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area In
the past the U.S. Office of Management and Budget
defined the Atlanta Metropolitan area as a 20 county
region for census purposes. This twenty county area has
been replaced by the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta
Metropolitan Statistical Area which includes 28 Georgia
counties |
MSA |
20 |
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Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan Statistical
Area- The U.S. Office of Management and Budget
defines certain geographic entities, including
Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), for use by Federal
statistical agencies (including the U.S. Census Bureau)
in collecting, tabulating, and publishing Federal
statistics. The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta MSAs
describes the region’s core areas of population together
with the adjacent communities which display a high
degree of economic and social integration, particularly
illustrated by high rates of commuting from the adjacent
areas to job locations in the cores. |
MSA |
28 |
Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb,
Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth,
Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Lamar,
Meriwether, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Rockdale,
Spalding, and Walton |
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Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville Combined Statistical
Area |
CSA |
33 |
Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chambers (AL) Cherokee,
Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette,
Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, Haralson, Heard, Henry,
Jasper, Lamar, Meriwether, Newton, Paulding, Pickens,
Pike, Polk, Rockdale, Spalding, Troup, Upson and Walton |
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13-County Area - Refers to the former clean air
non-attainment area under the EPA's one-hour ozone
standard in place until 2005. The one hour standard has
been revoked and replaced with a new eight-hour
nonattainment standard since 2005 |
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13 |
Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas,
Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding and
Rockdale |
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20-County Area - The current Non-Attainment area
for the EPA's eight hour ozone and particulate matter
standards. |
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20
(plus portions of two counties) |
Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb,
Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton,
Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Newton, Paulding, Rockdale,
Spalding and Walton (Putnam and Heard: Portions only,
Particulate matter non-attainment only) |
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45-County Atlanta Market Area Area in which
Georgia's Clean Air Act implementation plan calls for
selling fuel with sulfur concentrations of only 30 parts
per million for smog-reduction. |
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45 |
Banks,
Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga, Cherokee,
Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas,
Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Fulton, Gordon, Gwinnett, Hall,
Haralson, Heard, Henry, Jackson, Jasper, Jones, Lamar,
Lumpkin, Madison, Meriwether, Monroe, Morgan, Newton,
Oconee, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Polk, Putnam, Rockdale,
Spalding, Troup, Upson, and Walton |
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