Support Gulf Coast bird and water restoration funding
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Mississippi Trustee Implementation Group Draft Restoration Plan 5 and Environmental Assessment: Nutrient Reduction and Birds
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR· Mississippi coastal watersFederal Register 2026-13044 ↗
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3 groups work Mississippi
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- National Parks Conservation Association
Works Mississippi: plaintiff in the challenge to the Gulf-wide endangered species exemption, naming Gulf Islands among the parks at risk.
- National Wildlife Federation
Works Mississippi: co-plaintiff defending Gulf park wildlife, from sea turtles to the Rice's whale, in the God Squad suit.
- Southern Environmental Law Center
Works Mississippi: filed the lawsuit for the coalition challenging the Gulf-wide exemption.
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Nearly $20 million is available to restore Mississippi coastal wildlife and water quality damaged by the 2010 BP oil spill.
What’s at risk
Mississippi coastal waters, bird habitat, and water quality are still recovering from the Deepwater Horizon spill. Without finalizing this plan, $19.5 million in restoration funding secured through a legal settlement could go unspent or be redirected.
If we stay silent
Restoration projects move forward to reduce harmful nutrient pollution and rebuild bird habitat along the Mississippi coast, delivering recovery that the spill set back over a decade ago.
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What the public could have raised, from the agency’s own document
- I support this action and urge the agency to advance it.
- I support the Mississippi Trustee Implementation Group's Draft Restoration Plan 5, which directs approximately $19.5 million toward repairing natural resource injuries caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Mississippi coastal waters.
- This plan uses funds already secured through the 2016 Consent Decree specifically for nutrient reduction and bird habitat restoration, so this money exists for exactly this purpose and should be put to work.
- Reducing nonpoint source nutrient pollution in Mississippi coastal waters will help restore the water quality that was harmed by the Deepwater Horizon spill and support healthier ecosystems for wildlife.
- Restoring bird habitat along the Mississippi coast directly addresses documented injuries to bird populations caused by the 2010 spill, and I urge trustees to move forward with their three preferred alternatives.
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- Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.
In the agency’s own words
The natural resource trustee agencies for the Mississippi Trustee Implementation Group (MS TIG) have prepared the Draft Restoration Plan 5 and Environmental Assessment: Nutrient Reduction and Birds (Draft RP5/EA). The Draft RP5/EA analyzes projects to partially restore resources injured in the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. The Draft RP5/EA evaluates a reasonable range of five action alternatives under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), including criteria set forth in the OPA natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) regulations and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). A No Action alternative is also analy…
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