Bike and Pedestrian Path Project Leverages Funds to Maintain Momentum
Construction of the Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group’s Bike and Pedestrian Use Enhancement Project is continuing uninterrupted due to a strong and productive partnership between the Trustees and the National Park Service. The project, on which construction began in January 2022, was at risk of being scaled back as recent material and labor cost increases resulted in a project funding shortfall. The National Park Service, however, has stepped up to make up the shortfall with non-Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment funds.
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