The Mississippi Trustee Implementation Group held its annual public meeting in-person as well as via a Facebook Live virtual broadcast on November 10, 2022.

The Deepwater Horizon Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has released the Final Restoration Plan approving the Terrebonne HNC Island Restoration project to restore birds injured by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group will host its annual public meeting via a video presentation/webinar on December 12, 2022. The video presentation will include information on the Alabama Trustee Implementation Group’s ongoing restoration projects. 

The video presentation will be available on the State of Alabama's Coastal Restoration YouTube page on December 12, 2022 from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. CT and can be viewed an unlimited number of times. 

The public may also provide comments related to the presentation topics until December 12, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. CT via e-mail to ALTIG@dcnr

The Florida Trustee Implementation Group will hold its annual public meeting via webinar on December 15, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. ET. During the meeting we will present an update on Florida Restoration Area plans, projects, and activities. After the presentation, we will provide an opportunity for attendees to give verbal public comments. The webinar is open to everyone and we encourage your attendance and participation. 

• Date: December 15, 2022 
• Time: 5:00 p.m. ET 

Registration: Please register for the webinar at:  

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3210855854760253711 

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The Texas Trustee Implementation Group held its 2022 annual public meetings on November 2 in Corpus Christi, and on November 3 in Galveston. The presentation and fact sheets below include updates on the work we have accomplished since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. We provided an update on Texas Restoration Area plans, projects, and activities. After the presentation, Trustee staff also hosted a question-and-answer session. 

Links to the presentation and fact sheets are below. 

• Texas Trustee Implementation Group 2022 Public Meeting presentation (PDF, 19 pages) 

• Fact Sheet: Texas

The Florida Trustee Implementation Group has approved the Monitoring and Adaptive Management (MAM) Implementation Plan (PDF, 12 pages) for the Coastal Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) Mapping of the Florida Gulf Coast project. 

Environmental Sensitivity Index maps and datasets provide a summary of coastal resources that can be utilized by restoration managers in their decision-making process when proposing and selecting restoration projects. These maps should be updated every five to 10 years to account for natural and manmade factors that change the coastal landscape over time, such as

The Florida Trustee Implementation Group invites you to submit project ideas for restoration in Florida. 

For our upcoming third post-settlement restoration plan, we would like your project ideas regarding restoration of water quality.  

Addressing water quality can use a range of approaches to enhance ecosystem services and recreational use along the Florida Gulf coast by reducing pollutants, nutrients, and pathogens discharged to coastal watersheds and improving hydrology. These restoration approaches might include: reducing pollution and hydrologic degradation; reducing nutrient loads

The Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group held an interactive webinar on October 6, 2022. The trustees provided their annual update on restoration planning and projects, and answered participants’ questions. We had more than 50 people in attendance.  

The meeting included a special session with updates from the Restoration of Common Loons Project, demonstrating how restoration activities in different geographic areas benefit highly migratory birds that use the Gulf of Mexico. Materials from the webinar include: 

• October 2022 Open Ocean Webinar Presentation Slides (PDF, 49 pages) 

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group has approved additional funding for reconstruction of the Mobile Street Boardwalk at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. 

This project was originally proposed for implementation in the 2019 Final Restoration Plan III and Environmental Assessment: Provide and Enhance Recreational Opportunities; and Birds at a cost of $1,189,899.

The budget increase approved through the Final Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge Recreation Enhancements: Supplemental Restoration Plan (PDF, 23 pages) will increase funding available for the project by approximately $2

The Texas Trustee Implementation Group will hold our 2022 annual public meeting in person at two coastal Texas locations. We invite you to attend one or both of these meetings; both meetings will present the same content. On November 2, we will hold a meeting in Corpus Christi, and on November 3 in Galveston. Each meeting will begin at 6:00 pm CT.