2023-05114: Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group Draft Restoration Plan 3 and Environmental Assessment: Birds
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In accordance with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Oil Spill Final Programmatic Damage Assessment Restoration Plan and Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Final PDARP/ PEIS), Record of Decision and Consent Decree, the Federal natural resource trustee agencies for the Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group (Open Ocean TIG) have prepared the Draft Restoration Plan 3 and Environmental Assessment: Birds (Draft RP/EA). The Draft RP/EA proposes projects to help restore bird species injured in the DWH oil spill. The Draft RP/EA evaluates a reasonable range of 11 project alternatives under the Oil Pollution Act's Natural Resource Damage Assessment regulations and NEPA. The total cost to implement the Open Ocean TIG's seven preferred alternatives is approximately $26,000,000. A No Action alternative is also analyzed. The Open Ocean TIG invites comments on the Draft RP/EA.
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