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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

Mississippi Trustee Implementation 

Group Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 

Final Restoration Plan 4 and 

Environmental Assessment: 

Restoration of Wetlands, Coastal, and 

Nearshore Habitats; Nutrient 

Reduction (Nonpoint Source); and 

Provide and Enhance Recreational 

Opportunities; and Finding of No 

Significant Impact 

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Oil 

Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), the Deepwater Horizon 

(DWH) Oil Spill Final Programmatic 

Damage Assessment Restoration Plan 

and Final Programmatic Environmental 

Impact Statement and Record of 

Decision, and the Consent Decree 

referenced below, the Federal and State 

natural resource trustee agencies for the 

Mississippi Trustee Implementation 

Group (MS TIG) have prepared and are 

making available to the public the 

‘‘Mississippi Trustee Implementation 

Group Final Restoration Plan 4 and 

Environmental Assessment: Restoration 

of Wetlands, Coastal, and Nearshore 

Habitats; Nutrient Reduction (Nonpoint 

Source), and Provide and Enhance 

Recreational Opportunities’’ (Final RP4 

and EA); and Finding of No Significant 

Impact (FONSI). The Final RP4 and EA 

analyzes projects to partially restore 

wetlands, coastal, and nearshore 

habitats; reduce nutrient pollution 

(nonpoint source); and provide and 

enhance recreational opportunities to 

compensate for lost recreational use in 

the Mississippi Restoration Area 

resulting from the DWH oil spill. The 

Final RP4 and EA evaluates a reasonable 

range of project alternatives under OPA, 

the OPA Natural Resources Damage 

Assessment (NRDA) regulations, and 

NEPA and the NEPA implementing 

regulations, and selects seven projects 

for funding and implementation. A No 

Action alternative is also evaluated for 

each of the restoration types. The 

estimated cost to implement MS TIG’s 

proposed action (seven preferred 

alternatives) is $26.4 million. Of this 

amount, $18,500,000 will be funded 

from the Wetlands, Coastal and 

Nearshore Habitats restoration 

allocation, $5,000,000 from the Nutrient 

Reduction restoration allocation, and 

$2,853,000 from the Recreational Use 

restoration allocation. 

ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents: You 

may download the Final RP4 and EA 

and FONSI from the following website: 

https://gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/ 

media/document/2024-01-ms-finalrp4ea in the ‘‘Restoration Plans’’ 

section. Alternatively, you may request 

a CD of the Final RP4 and EA (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nanciann Regalado at nanciann_

regalado@fws.gov or 678–296–6805, or 

via the Federal Relay Service at 800– 

877–8339; Ronald Howard, Senior 

Advisor, USDA Gulf Coast Ecosystem 

Restoration Team, at ron.howard@

usda.gov; and Dr. Tina Nations, NRDA 

Program Manager, MDEQ Office of 

Restoration, at mississippiTIG@

mdeq.ms.gov. Individuals who require 

alternative means for communication 

should contact the USDA TARGET 

Center at (202) 720–2600 (voice and text 

telephone (TTY)) or dial 711 for 

Telecommunications Relay Service 

(both voice and text telephone users can 

initiate this call from any telephone). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

On April 20, 2010, the mobile 

offshore drilling unit Deepwater 

Horizon, which was being used to drill 

a well for BP Exploration and 

Production, Inc. (BP), in the Macondo 

prospect (Mississippi Canyon 252– 

MC252), experienced a significant 

explosion, fire, and subsequent sinking 

in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in an 

unprecedented volume of oil and other 

discharges from the rig and from the 

wellhead on the seabed. The DWH oil 

spill is the largest offshore oil spill in 

U.S. history, discharging millions of 

barrels of oil over a period of 87 days. 

In addition, well over 1 million gallons 

of dispersants were applied to the 

waters of the spill area in an attempt to 

disperse the spilled oil. An 

undetermined amount of natural gas 

was also released into the environment 

as a result of the spill. 

The DWH Federal and State natural 

resource trustees (DWH Trustees) 

conducted NRDA for the DWH oil spill 

under OPA (33 U.S.C. 2701–2720). 

Pursuant to OPA, Federal, and State 

agencies act as trustees on behalf of the 

public, to assess natural resources 

injuries and losses and to determine the 

actions required to compensate the 

public for those injuries and losses. 

OPA further instructs the designated 

trustees to develop and implement a 

plan for the restoration, rehabilitation, 

replacement, or acquisition of the 

equivalent of the injured natural 

resources under their trusteeship to 

baseline (the resource quality and 

conditions that would exist if the spill 

had not occurred). This includes the 

loss of use and services provided by 

those resources from the time of injury 

until the completion of restoration. 

The DWH Trustees are: 

• U.S. Department of the Interior 

(DOI), as represented by the National 

Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, and Bureau of Land 

Management; 

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), on behalf of 

the U.S. Department of Commerce; 

• USDA; 

• U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA); 

• State of Louisiana Coastal 

Protection and Restoration Authority, 

Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 

and Department of Natural Resources; 

• State of Mississippi Department of 

Environmental Quality; 

• State of Alabama Department of 

Conservation and Natural Resources and 

Geological Survey of Alabama; 

• State of Florida Department of 

Environmental Protection and Fish and 

Wildlife Conservation Commission; and 

• State of Texas: Texas Parks and 

Wildlife Department, Texas General 

Land Office, and Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality. 

On April 4, 2016, the United States 

District Court for the Eastern District of 

Louisiana entered a Consent Decree 

resolving civil claims by the DWH 

Trustees against BP arising from the 

DWH oil spill: United States v. BPXP et 

al., Civ. No. 10–4536, centralized in 

MDL 2179, In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig 

‘‘Deepwater Horizon’’ in the Gulf of 

Mexico, on April 20, 2010 (E.D. La.) 

(https://www.justice.gov/enrd/ 

deepwater-horizon). Pursuant to the 

Consent Decree, restoration projects in 

the Mississippi Restoration Area are 

chosen and managed by MS TIG. MS 

TIG is composed of the following 

Trustees: State of Mississippi 

Department of Environmental Quality; 

DOI; NOAA; EPA; and USDA. 

On February 7, 2022, MS TIG posted 

public notice requesting natural 

resource restoration project ideas by 

March 7, 2022, for the Mississippi 

Restoration Area. The notice stated that 

MS TIG was seeking project ideas for 

the following restoration types: 

(1) Wetlands, Coastal, and Nearshore 

Habitat; 

(2) Nutrient Reduction; and 

(3) Provide and Enhance Recreational 

Opportunities. 


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On October 11, 2022, the MS TIG 

announced that it had initiated drafting 

of the RP4 and EA (https://

www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/ 

2022/10/notice-initiation-restorationplanning-mississippi) and that the plan 

may include proposed projects for some 

or all of the three restoration types. 

Overview of the MS TIG Draft RP4 and 

EA 

MS TIG released the Draft RP4 and EA 

for public review and comment 

announced through a notice published 

in the Federal Register on August 31, 

2023 (88 FR 60174–60176). The 30-day 

comment period for the notice closed on 

October 2, 2023. To facilitate public 

understanding of the document, MS TIG 

released a pre-recorded webinar on 

September 12, 2023, which had been 

announced in the August notice. In 

addition, the Draft RP and EA was made 

available to the public through a web 

story posted on MS TIG’s website 

(www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov). 

Informally, MS TIG accepted additional 

public comments through October 13, 

2023, as announced on the MS TIG’s 

website. MS TIG received three 

comments from the public. MS TIG 

reviewed the comments received, 

prepared responses to those comments, 

finalized the RP4 and EA, and prepared 

a FONSI. 

Overview of MS TIG Final RP4 and EA 

In the Final RP4 and EA, MS TIG 

analyzes a reasonable range of 10 

restoration alternatives and, pursuant to 

NEPA, a no action alternative for each 

of the restoration types. MS TIG selected 

seven preferred alternatives for funding 

and implementation, which are listed in 

the table below: 

Restoration Type: Wetlands, Coastal and Nearshore 

Habitat: 

Coastwide Habitat Acquisition. 

Living Shoreline Bulkhead Alternative. 

Hancock County Marsh Living Shoreline Phase 6 

Breakwater. 

Restoration Type: Nutrient Reduction (Nonpoint 

Source): 

Back Bay—Davis Bayou Nutrient Reduction. 

Big Cedar Creek—Rocky Creek Nutrient Reduction. 

Restoration Type: Provide and Enhance Recreational Opportunities: 

Jourdan River Boardwalk. 

Shepard State Park Recreational Enhancements—1. 

Administrative Record 

The documents comprising the 

Administrative Record for the Final RP4 

and EA can be viewed electronically at 

https://www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon/ 

adminrecord under the folder 6.5.6.2.4. 

Authorities 

The authorities for this action are 

OPA, its implementing NRDA 

regulations in 15 CFR part 990; and 

NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321—4347) and its 

implementing regulations in 40 CFR 

parts 1500–1508. 

Ronald Howard, 

Senior Technical Advisor, Natural Resource 

Specialist, Natural Resources Conservation 

Service, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Alternate to Principal Representative. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[B–1–2024] 

Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 297, 

Notification of Proposed Production 

Activity; Twin Disc, Inc.; (Power 

Transmission Products); Lufkin, Texas 

Twin Disc, Inc. submitted a 

notification of proposed production 

activity to the FTZ Board (the Board) for 

its facility in Lufkin, Texas within 

Subzone 297A. The notification 

conforming to the requirements of the 

Board’s regulations (15 CFR 400.22) was 

received on December 27, 2023. 

Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ 

production activity would be limited to 

the specific foreign-status material(s)/ 

component(s) and specific finished 

product(s) described in the submitted 

notification (summarized below) and 

subsequently authorized by the Board. 

The benefits that may stem from 

conducting production activity under 

FTZ procedures are explained in the 

background section of the Board’s 

website—accessible via www.trade.gov/ 

ftz. 

The proposed finished products 

include power take-offs, pump drives, 

clutches, and hydrojet engines for 

marine propulsion (duty rate ranges 

from duty-free to 2.8%). 

The proposed foreign-status materials 

and components include: acrylic 

polymer seals; plastic plugs; rubber 

components (shaped blocks; nitrile Orings and seals; air bladders); hydraulic 

hoses with fittings; paper tags; adhesive 

labels; owner manuals (printed; digital); 

clutch friction plates; alloy steel metal 

components (tubes; pipe fittings; pipe 

plugs; fasteners and fittings; nuts; 

washers; snap rings; rivets; cotter pins; 

freeze plugs; serrated lock washers); cast 

iron metal components (pipe fittings; 

tanks); metal components (screws; name 

plates; piston rings); various pins 

(Clevis; dowel; headed; roll; tapered); 

various springs (compression; torsion; 

wave); brass fittings and rivets; copper 

washers; Allen wrenches; hydrojet 

engine components (shafts; housings; 

caps; spacers; bushings; covers; anodes; 

retainers; fabricated tunnels); hydraulic 

pumps; pump parts; heat exchangers; 

hydraulic fluid filters; pressure 

reduction valves; valves; valve parts; 

various bearings (ball; tapered roller; 

spherical roller; needle; cylindrical 

roller); steel and roller balls; bearing 

cups and housings; transmission 

components (shafts; backplates; 

pressure plates; collars; yokes; brackets; 

drums; levers; links; sleeves; covers; 

drive rings; housings; adapters; keys; 

slingers; retainers; shims; spacers; 

locks); flywheels; shaft couplings; gears; 

marine propellers; flat panel displays; 

wiring harnesses; fluid level gauges; 

and, electronic sensors and control 

modules (duty rate ranges from dutyfree to 9.9%). The request indicates that 

certain materials/components are 

subject to duties under section 232 of 

the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 

(section 232) or section 301 of the Trade 

Act of 1974 (section 301), depending on 

the country of origin. The applicable 

section 232 and section 301 decisions 

require subject merchandise to be 

admitted to FTZs in privileged foreign 

status (19 CFR 146.41). 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions shall be 

addressed to the Board’s Executive 

Secretary and sent to: ftz@trade.gov. The 

closing period for their receipt is 

February 20, 2024. 

A copy of the notification will be 

available for public inspection in the 

‘‘Online FTZ Information System’’ 

section of the Board’s website. 

For further information, contact 

Juanita Chen at juanita.chen@trade.gov. 

Dated: January 3, 2024. 

Elizabeth Whiteman, 

Executive Secretary. 

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