The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group has approved and released its second final restoration plan to address natural resource injuries from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This restoration plan focuses on restoration alternatives that will:

• Restore and benefit wetlands, coastal, and nearshore habitats, including some on federally managed lands.
• Improve water quality by reducing non-point source pollution to increase the overall health and productivity of these ecosystems.
• Restore sea turtles, marine mammals, birds, and oysters.
• Play a significant role in the collection and/or analysis of data that would improve our ability to conduct future restoration.

The plan aims to partially compensate the public for injuries to natural resources and resource services in the Alabama Restoration Area and is consistent with the Trustees’ Programmatic Restoration Plan. The total estimated cost for the 22 selected restoration alternatives is approximately $35 million. This includes funds from our monitoring and adaptive management allocation to address uncertainties with existing data in order to inform and enhance future restoration.

Download the plan and learn more about steps leading up to its release, in our latest Gulf Spill Restoration story.

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