The Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees will hold two public meetings to solicit public comment on the Draft Programmatic and Phase III Early Restoration Plan and Draft Early Restoration Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement. The second meeting will be recheduled for Panama City at a later date.
The Pensacola meeting will take place Monday, February 3, at the Pensacola Bay Center, 201 E Gregory Street, Pensacola, and will begin with an open house at 6 p.m. CST and the public meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The Draft Phase III ERP/PEIS describes the third and largest round of projects proposed to receive funding from the $1 billion BP committed to Early Restoration in April 2011, along with a proposed programmatic plan and programmatic environmental impact statement for continuing early restoration.
The public comment period on the Draft Phase III ERP/PEIS has been extended from February 4 through February 19. Visit www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov to download an electronic copy of the Plan and to submit comments online. For more information on the State of Florida’s oil spill recovery efforts visit www.deepwaterhorizonflorida.com.
