Comments closed July 29
Support Gulf Coast bird and water restoration funding
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR · Mississippi coastal waters, MS
- What
- Nearly $20 million is available to restore Mississippi coastal wildlife and water quality damaged by the 2010 BP oil spill.
- Where
- Mississippi coastal waters, MS
- How much
- Mississippi coastal waters, bird habitat, and water quality are still recovering from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
- Decided
- Comments closed July 29, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from Federal Register ↗, read June 30, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the Federal Register 2026-13044 ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedJuly 29, 2026, from Federal Register, the document’s comment close date (federalregister.gov) ↗. Read June 30, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 10, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
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Protective action worth supporting
Nearly $20 million is available to restore Mississippi coastal wildlife and water quality damaged by the 2010 BP oil spill.
What’s at risk
If we stay silent
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
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…
The groups on this fight
3 groups predicted likely to care in Mississippi
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Mississippi, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- National Parks Conservation Association
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi: Plaintiff in the challenge to the Gulf-wide endangered species exemption, naming Gulf Islands among the parks at risk.
- National Wildlife Federation
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi: Co-plaintiff defending Gulf park wildlife, from sea turtles to the Rice's whale, in the God Squad suit.
- Southern Environmental Law Center
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi: Filed the lawsuit for the coalition challenging the Gulf-wide exemption.
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Who signs it
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The ground
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The photograph on this page: Dawn mist over the salt marsh at Davis Bayou, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi (NPS photo). More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
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Who holds the vote
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