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Introduction Section 161.143 (5) Florida Statutes (F.S.) states: The department shall update and maintain an annual report on its website concerning the extent to which each inlet project has succeeded in balancing the sediment budget of the inlet and adjacent beaches and in mitigating the inlet's erosive effects on adjacent beaches. The report must estimate the quantity of sediment bypassed, transferred, or otherwise placed on adjacent eroding beaches, or in such beaches' nearshore area, for the purpose of offsetting the erosive effects of inlets on the beaches of this state. Elements of the Report: The order of the annual inlet report is listed by region, starting with inlets in the Northeast Atlantic Coast Region moving south along the east coast and then west to east in the Panhandle Region and then north to south along the Southwest Gulf Coast Region. One can view the table of contents to find a specific inlet. Elements of the annual inlet report include the inlet management plan's (IMP) adoption year, IMP updated year, annual bypass numbers by year, bypass objective, annualized volume, cumurative volume, cumulative objective, surplus/deficit volume and the percentage of the bypass objective met. The annual inlet report highlights the surplus and/or deficit of material that is being bypassed on an annual basis to each side of an inlet that is actively managed. The bypass objective is listed in the first table for each inlet and will state if the bypass objective is from the Strategic Beach Management Plan (SBMP). The IMP is based upon an inlet study's sediment budget that was sponsored by a local government entity, to determine how best to mitigate the erosive effects of the altered inlet in order to bypass beach quality sand to the adjacent eroded beaches. All bypass data submitted to or that is available to the department was utilized through 2020; data for some inlets may not be available at the published time of this report. Beach nourishment is another management strategy for Florida's eroded beaches and the sand volumes associated with these projects can be found in the Strategic Beach Management Plan. In some cases, there are ongoing beach nourishment projects adjacent to inlets that have mitigated some or all of the inlet effects. The Inlet Management Plans can be found on the department's web page. The department and/or local governments sponsor inlet management studies and inlet reports that can be viewed or downloaded from this OCULUS folder (use the public login tab to enter site). A full listing of Florida's inlets along the Atlantic 90