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02-01 - Trustees Finalize Fifth Phase of Early Restoration
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12-01 - Trustees Propose Fifth Phase of Early Restoration
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10-29 - UPDATE: New location for St. Petersburg Public Meeting on October 29
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10-05 - Trustees Propose Comprehensive Restoration Plan for the Gulf of Mexico
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10-05 - Give Us Your Thoughts on the Draft Plan to Restore the Gulf
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10-05 - Draft Plan Proposes Framework for Restoring the Gulf
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09-23 - Latest Round of Early Restoration Projects Approved
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05-20 - Public Meeting on Draft Phase IV Restoration Plan
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03-18 - Statement From the Trustee Council on the BP Five Year Report
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10-03 - $627 Million Gulf Spill Restoration Plan Approved
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06-26 - Trustees Publish Final Plan for the Next Phase of Early Restoration
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06-26 - Final Plan for Phase III of Early Restoration
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06-26 - Phase III Overview
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06-18 - Trustees Propose $627 Million in New Restoration Projects--UPDATE
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01-29 - Phase III Early Restoration Meeting - Pensacola, FL (rescheduled)
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01-14 - 2014 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference
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01-09 - Trustees Propose $627 Million in New Restoration Projects
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12-19 - Audio: Barataria Bay NRDA paper press call
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12-06 - Phase III Early Restoration Meeting - Panama City, FL
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12-06 - CANCELED: Phase III Early Restoration Meeting - Pensacola, FL
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12-06 - Phase III Early Restoration Meeting - Corpus Christi, TX
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12-06 - Phase III Early Restoration Meeting - Galveston, TX
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12-06 - Phase III Early Restoration Meeting - Port Arthur, TX
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12-06 - Phase III Early Restoration Meeting - Lake Charles, LA
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12-06 - Phase III Early Restoration Meeting
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12-06 - Phase III Early Restoration Meeting
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12-06 - Phase III Early Restoration Public Meeting
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12-06 - Phase III Early Restoration Public Meetings
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12-06 - Give Us Your Thoughts at Public Meetings
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12-06 - Read the Draft Phase III Plan
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12-06 - Learn More About Projects
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12-06 - Trustees Propose $627 Million in New Restoration Projects
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12-01 - Trustee Council Fact Sheet: Lost Recreational Use
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09-24 - Deep sea ecosystem may take decades to recover from Deepwater Horizon spill
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07-01 - Early Restoration Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Summary
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06-04 - Early Restoration PEIS Public Meeting
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06-04 - Early Restoration PEIS Public Scoping Meeting
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06-04 - Trustees Open New Public Comment Period
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06-04 - Natural Resource Trustees to Hold Public Meetings on Gulf of Mexico Restoration
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06-01 - Fact Sheet: Early Restoration – Phase Two
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06-01 - Fact Sheet: Early Restoration – Phase One
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06-01 - Fact Sheet: Emergency Restoration
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06-01 - Fact Sheet: Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
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06-01 - Fact Sheet: Introduction – Natural Resource Damage Assessment
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06-01 - MISSING TITLE
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06-01 - Fact Sheet: Early Restoration Project Selection Criteria
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06-01 - Fact Sheet: Early Restoration
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06-01 - Notice of Intent to Prepare a PEIS for Early Restoration (Vietnamese Translation)
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06-01 - Notice of Intent to Prepare a PEIS for Early Restoration
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06-01 - Press Release: Early Restoration PEIS
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05-01 - Public Notice: Future Early Restoration Projects
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01-08 - Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trustees Extend Gulf Restoration Comment Period to Feb. 19
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12-21 - Trustees Approve Two More Early Restoration Projects for Gulf Coast
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12-05 - Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Public Meeting
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12-05 - Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Public Meeting
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12-01 - Phase II Early Restoration Plan and Environmental Review (Full Text)
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12-01 - Phase II Early Restoration Plan and Environmental Review (Executive Summary)
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12-01 - Fact Sheet: Sea Turtle Nesting Ground Project
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12-01 - Fact Sheet: Avian Breeding Habitat Project
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11-06 - Phase II DERP/ER Public Meeting
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11-06 - Trustees Call for Public Input on Next Round of Gulf Restoration
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09-19 - New Atlas Tracks Progress of Early Restoration Projects
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08-22 - Tìm hiểu thêm về các dự án
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08-16 - Researchers Assessing Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles
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08-01 - Early Restoration Plan (Vietnamese Translation)
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05-30 - NRDA Teams Continue Careful Study of Gulf Dolphins
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04-18 - Early Restoration
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04-18 - Status Update on Deepwater Horizon NRDA
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04-17 - Research Continues on Oil’s Impacts to Corals
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04-01 - NRDA Status Update April 2012
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04-01 - Fact Sheet: Early Restoration and Early Restoration Criteria, Large Format
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04-01 - Fact Sheet: Assessment, Large Format
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04-01 - Fact Sheet: Intro to NRDA
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04-01 - Fact Sheet: Emergency Restoration
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04-01 - Fact Sheet: PEIS
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04-01 - Fact Sheet: Early Restoration Criteria
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04-01 - Fact Sheet: Early Restoration
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04-01 - Final Phase I Early Restoration Plan (Executive Summary)
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04-01 - Final Phase I Early Restoration Plan (Full Text)
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03-23 - Study by NOAA and Partners Shows Some Gulf Dolphins Severely Ill
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03-23 - Gulf Dolphins Slideshow
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03-23 - Gulf Dolphins Questions & Answers
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02-29 - Trustees Hear from Public at Early Restoration Meetings
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02-15 - Help Us Shape Projects
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Washington, DC
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Louisiana
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Louisiana
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Louisiana
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Texas
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Alabama
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Alabama
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Mississippi
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Mississippi
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Mississippi
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Florida
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12-14 - Early Restoration Public Meeting, Florida
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12-14 - Trustees Seeking Comment on Draft Early Restoration Plan
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12-10 - Deepwater Horizon Archive
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12-01 - Draft Phase I Early Restoration Plan (Executive Summary)
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12-01 - Draft Phase I Early Restoration Plan (Full Text)
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12-01 - Trustee Council Fact Sheet: Assessment (Vietnamese Translation)
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12-01 - Trustee Council Fact Sheet: Early Restoration (Vietnamese Translation)
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12-01 - Trustee Council Fact Sheet: Emergency Restoration (Vietnamese Translation)
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09-22 - What We Heard from the Public on Restoration Types to Restore the Gulf
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09-21 - Visualizing the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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09-01 - PEIS Public Scoping Comment Summary
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07-07 - Deepwater BP Oil Spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment Update
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06-24 - View Early Restoration Project Ideas
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06-22 - Mississippi Resource Trustee Early Restoration Public Meeting
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06-14 - Louisiana Resource Trustees Early Restoration Public Meeting
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06-09 - Texas Resource Trustees Early Restoration Public Meeting
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06-09 - Alabama Resource Trustees Early Restoration Public Meeting
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05-25 - Suggest a Restoration Project Idea
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05-19 - Road to Restoration: Assessing the Damage to Shorelines
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04-25 - Deadline for PEIS Public Comment
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04-22 - Trustees Announce $1 Billion for Restoration Projects in Gulf of Mexico
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04-21 - NRDA Trustees announce $1 billion agreement to fund early Gulf Coast restoration projects
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04-20 - One Year Later: Assessing Our Progress
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04-11 - Public Provides an Array of Restoration Ideas for the Gulf of Mexico
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04-01 - PEIS Public Scoping Document
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03-10 - Learn More About How We Work in the Gulf
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03-01 - Diagram – Assessing the Impacts of Oil: First Steps
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03-01 - Fact Sheet – Assessing the Impacts of Oil: First Steps
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03-01 - Fact Sheet – Restoration Approaches
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03-01 - Fact Sheet – Assessing the Impacts of Oil: Next Steps
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03-01 - Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement Newsletter
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02-28 - Washington, D.C. Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Texas Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Texas Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Louisiana Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Louisiana Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Louisiana Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Alabama Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Louisiana Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Mississippi Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Florida Public Scoping Meeting
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02-28 - Florida Public Scoping Meeting
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02-22 - Restoration Scoping for BP Oil Spill Begins
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02-16 - Road to Restoration: Assessing the Damage to Marine Mammals
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02-01 - Road to Restoration: Assessing the Damage to Turtles
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02-01 - Fact Sheet – Restoration Approaches (Spanish Translation)
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02-01 - Fact Sheet – Assessment and Restoration (Spanish Translation)
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02-01 - Fact Sheet – Assessing the Impacts of Oil: Next Steps (Spanish Translation)
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02-01 - Diagram – Assessing the Impacts of Oil: First Steps (Spanish Translation)
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02-01 - Fact Sheet – NRDA Case Study Westchester
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02-01 - Fact Sheet – NRDA Case Study Ocean Energy
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02-01 - Fact Sheet – NRDA Case Study Equinox
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02-01 - Fact Sheet – NRDA Case Study Apex
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01-09 - Join Our Mailing List
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01-01 - Fact Sheet – Restoration Approaches (Vietnamese Translation)
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01-01 - Fact Sheet – Assessment and Restoration (Vietnamese Translation)
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01-01 - Fact Sheet – Assessing the Impacts of Oil: Next Steps (Vietnamese Translation)
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01-01 - Diagram – Assessing the Impacts of Oil: First Steps (Vietnamese Translation)
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11-22 - Alabama Trustees Hear from Public at NRDA Meeting
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11-19 - Florida Natural Resource Damage Assessment Public Meeting
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11-10 - Deeper Insights: Researching the Spill Under the Sea
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11-04 - Federal & Academic Scientists Return from Deep-sea Research Cruise in Gulf of Mexico
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11-02 - Alabama Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Public Meeting
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11-02 - Louisiana Co-Trustees Hear from Public at Coastal Meetings
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10-21 - Deepwater BP Oil Spill video
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10-20 - Six Months After the Spill: A Progress Report
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10-04 - Transcript: NOAA Administrator’s Keynote Address on NOAA Science and the Gulf Oil Spill
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10-01 - Diagram – Assessing the Impacts of Oil: First Steps
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09-29 - Restoration Planning Process Begins for Deepwater BP Oil Spill
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09-29 - Resource Restoration Planning Process Begins for BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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09-27 - Notice of Intent to Conduct Restoration Planning
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09-22 - NOAA Searches Underwater for Oil Spill Impacts on Corals
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09-22 - Alabama Oyster Restoration Project Resumes After Oil Spill
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09-07 - No Dead Zones Observed or Expected as Part of BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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09-01 - Fact Sheet – Assessment and Restoration
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08-04 - Federal Science Report Details Fate of Oil from BP Spill
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07-30 - NOAA: Gulf’s Surface Oil Not a Threat to Southern Florida, Keys and East Coast
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07-28 - Update on NOAA’s Oil Spill Research and Response Missions
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07-23 - Second Federal Analysis Gives Further Clues about Location and Movement of Subsurface Oil
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07-08 - Protecting Wild Dolphins During the Gulf Oil Spill
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07-02 - NOAA Models Long-Term Oil Threat to Gulf and East Coast Shoreline
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06-17 - NOAA Conducts Tests to Determine Fate of Whale Found Dead in Gulf of Mexico
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06-14 - Federal Agencies Introduce Online Mapping Tool to Track Gulf Response
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06-13 - Update on NOAA’s Oil Spill Research Missions
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06-08 - NOAA Deploys Additional High Powered Research Aircraft to Gulf to Help Monitor Air Quality
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06-08 - NOAA Completes Initial Analysis of Weatherbird II Water Samples
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