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Thu Jun 20, 2019, 06:15 PM Jun 2019

GULF SPILL RESTORATION: Open Ocean Draft Restoration Plan 2 Available for Public Comment

https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/2019/05/open-ocean-draft-restoration-plan-2-available-public-comment?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

The Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group has released the Draft Restoration Plan 2 and Environmental Assessment: Fish, Sea Turtles, Marine Mammals, and Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities (PDF 438 pg.) for public comment through July 1, 2019.

The draft plan is available here and in libraries and other repositories throughout Gulf of Mexico states, which are listed in the plan’s Appendix G. The draft restoration plan, fact sheets, Appendix G, how to provide public comment, and information on our upcoming public meeting and webinars are all below.

The draft restoration plan focuses on the wide-ranging and migratory oceanic species within the Open Ocean Restoration Area and proposes projects for the following four Restoration Types:

Fish and Water Column Invertebrates.
Sea Turtles.
Marine Mammals.
Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities.


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