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Bucket 2 FPL 3b Program Fact Sheets
The RESTORE Council has posted the draft FPL 3b document for public comment.
11/19/2020
FPL 3b Update
The RESTORE Council has posted the draft FPL 3b to begin the public comment period that ends on January 5, 2021. The FPL 3b document can be accessed at Draft FPL 3b or through the RESTORE Council website.
11/16/2020
UPDATE: BUCKET 2/FPL 3b
The RESTORE Council has posted a notification that a draft of the FPL 3b document will be posted for public comment beginning November 16.
11/03/2020
2020 Texas TIG Annual Public Meeting Notice
The Texas Trustee Implementation Group will hold its 2020 annual public meeting on November 4, 2020 via an online video presentation.
10/06/2020
Submit your Ideas for Texas Restoration Area Planning
Beginning October 1, 2020, the Texas Trustee Implementation Group is requesting restoration project ideas that will address injuries caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to be considered in their next restoration plan.
10/01/2020
Bucket 1 Direct Component: Multi-Year Implementation Plan (MIP) Grants Awarded
TCEQ has received four grant awards from the U.S. Department of Treasury in association with projects included in the Texas Bkt 1 accepted Multi-Year Implementation Plan (MIP).
09/01/2020
Bucket 5 Centers of Excellence: Grant II Awarded
$3.5 million Centers of Excellence grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Treasury on August 1, 2020.
08/17/2020
Bucket 3 State Expenditure Plan (SEP): Approved
The RESTORE Council Chair approved the Texas SEP Amendment #1 (2020) on July 30, 2020.
08/17/2020
Update to Bucket 2 FPL 3 Funding
The RESTORE Council has posted 24 proposals submitted by seven RESTORE Council members.
08/17/2020
Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has played a key role in helping recover the natural resources that were harmed by the spill.
04/22/2020
Applications Closed
From October 1, 2020, through December 10, 2020, the Texas Trustee agencies (GLO, TPWD, and TCEQ) accepted restoration project ideas that will address injuries caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to consider in their next restoration plan. Submissions are no longer being accepted.
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Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (NFWF)
Learn about restoration funded by the criminal case settlements from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Where the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is working with state and federal agencies to administer spill restoration.
Government Trustees Restoring the Gulf (NRDA)
Learn about the state and federal Natural Resource Trustees and the efforts underway to restore the resources harmed by the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill through the Oil Pollution Act's natural resource damage process.
Civil Penalties Funding Gulf Restoration (RESTORE Act)
Learn about the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, set up when Congress passed the federal RESTORE Act in 2012, to administer civil penalty funding for spill restoration and economic recovery and the Texas RESTORE Advisory Board (TxRAB).