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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;">NOAA News, November 30, 2021</span><o:p style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Summary:</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 11pt;">NOAA and the </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"></span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Deepwater
Horizon</span></span></span></span></em><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> federal
and state Trustee agencies recently released the </span><a href="https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11_Deepwater_Horizon_TC_Final_2021_Programmatic_Review.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box"></a></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11_Deepwater_Horizon_TC_Final_2021_Programmatic_Review.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color:#337AB7"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">2021
Programmatic Review</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> (PDF,
97 pages). This is the first collective review of multiple years of work across this </span><a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/habitat-conservation/restoring-habitat-after-oil-spills-and-other-environmental-disasters" style="box-sizing:border-box"></a></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/habitat-conservation/restoring-habitat-after-oil-spills-and-other-environmental-disasters" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color:#337AB7"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Natural
Resource Damage Assessment</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> restoration
program. It is restoring habitats, fish, and wildlife impacted by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The comprehensive program review includes analyses of restoration data collected through 2020. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Through
the end of 2020, the Trustees received approximately $2.8 billion in </span><a href="https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-settlements-where-money-went" style="box-sizing:border-box"></a></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-settlements-where-money-went" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color:#337AB7"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">settlement
funding</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">.
They committed approximately $2.4 billion of those funds to the planning and implementing more than 200 projects and activities. In that time period, NOAA has led or partnered with other agencies on more than 60 of them.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The
review evaluated data on funding and projects focused on resources in the seven Gulf of Mexico geographies, called restoration areas. It also covers administrative and management efforts helping achieve restoration goals collaboratively, in an efficient and
effective manner, with transparency and public accountability.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Link to article: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/noaa-and-deepwater-horizon-trustees-report-progress-restoring-gulf-mexico?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></p>
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