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Restoration Activities
Case: Tampa Bay Oil Spill, FL

The Trustees developed restoration plans to address both ecological injuries and recreational losses that occurred. A Memorandum of Agreement between the Trustees facilitated this process. The first of these plans - the Final Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment Plan: Volume 1 (Ecological Injuries) was completed in 1997, and supplemented in 2003, and guided the Trustees' choice of ecological restoration projects. The second plan - the Final Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment: Volume 2 (Human Use & Recreational Injuries) - was completed in 2000 and identified the recreational restoration projects.

A broad suite of habitat and recreational restoration projects have been implemented under these plans, using funds, property, and in-kind services obtained in a natural resource damages settlement for the spill. These restoration actions were selected and designed to improve the health of Tampa Bay by enhancing habitat for beach, wetlands, sea turtles and birds as well as to improve public access to and recreational opportunities associated with the affected resources. Many of these restoration projects were undertaken in partnership with local governments and non-governmental organizations.

The full suite of Restoration Projects undertaken includes the following types of restoration actions:



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