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DWH NRDA Restoration - Louisiana TIG Draft Phase 2 Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment #1.2: Spanish Pass and Marsh Creation and Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Projects
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest maritime oil spill in U.S. history. It resulted in the discharge of millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), each party responsible for a vessel or facility from which oil is discharged, or which poses the substantial threat of a discharge, is liable for, among other things, removal costs and damages for injury to, destruction of, loss, or loss of use of natural resources, including the reasonable cost of assessing the damage. Pursuant to OPA, federal and state natural resource trustees, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and trustee agencies from the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, were charged with assessing and restoring for injuries to affected Gulf resources.
Under a global settlement reached on April 4, 2016, the Trustees released the Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan/Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PDARP/PEIS). The settlement agreement includes a funding schedule that will extend through 2031. During this timeframe the trustees will provide many opportunities for public participation, including the opportunity to submit project ideas and proposals and to comment on draft restoration plans
Consistent with the PDARP/PEIS, the Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has prepared the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group Draft Phase 2 Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment #1.2. This plan considers design alternatives for the Barataria Basin Ridge and Marsh Creation Project Spanish Pass Increment and for the Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project Increment One and identifies preferred design alternatives for these projects that would best help compensate the public for impacts caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Under a global settlement reached on April 4, 2016, the Trustees released the Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan/Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PDARP/PEIS). The settlement agreement includes a funding schedule that will extend through 2031. During this timeframe the trustees will provide many opportunities for public participation, including the opportunity to submit project ideas and proposals and to comment on draft restoration plans
Consistent with the PDARP/PEIS, the Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has prepared the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group Draft Phase 2 Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment #1.2. This plan considers design alternatives for the Barataria Basin Ridge and Marsh Creation Project Spanish Pass Increment and for the Lake Borgne Marsh Creation Project Increment One and identifies preferred design alternatives for these projects that would best help compensate the public for impacts caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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JoAnn Hicks(225) 342-5477