The San Miguel Natural Reserve was acquired with Berman settlement funds to compensate the public for injured natural resources and lost recreational use of the beaches impacted by the spill.    Photo Credit: NOAA Restoration Center

The Trustees evaluated numerous restoration projects intended to provide equitable compensation to the public for the three injury categories suffered from the grounding of the Barge Berman: grounding-related reef injuries, lost recreational beach use, and lost visitor use of national historic site resources. With extensive input from the public, through a public comment period and two public hearings, the Trustees selected the following suite of compensatory restoration projects to be implemented.

• Projects to Restore Injured Reef Resources
  
• Projects to Restore Lost Recreational Beach Use
  
• Projects to Compensate for Lost Visitor Use of National Historic Site Resources