MONROE COUNTY MULTI-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (RESTORE ACT)
The Monroe County Multi-Year Implementation Plan (MYIP) is now available for public review and comment on the County’s website: www.monroecounty-fl.gov.
As a result of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Monroe County is the recipient of RESTORE Act funding from civil penalty fines from the responsible parties. The funds available to the County at this time, $1,167,643, are those from the settlement of Transocean.
Pursuant to RESTORE Act regulations, Monroe County developed the MYIP which describes the process the County used for project selection and award, and a description of those projects. The MYIP tracks the funds currently available to Monroe County and consists of three projects as ranked by Monroe County’s RESTORE Act Local Advisory Committee and approved by the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners:
 Coral Reef Restoration, $550,000;
 Canal Water Restoration in Monroe County, $450,000; and
 Canal Water Restoration in Islamorada, $100,000.
Also pursuant to the regulations, Monroe County will post the MYIP for public review and comment for a minimum of 45 days. The County’s MYIP is posted on July 8, 2015, and will remain posted through August 31, 2015.
This document is to be considered a Draft MYIP until such time that public input is received and incorporated, and a revised Final MYIP is developed and formally adopted by the Monroe County BOCC. We hope to bring that to the BOCC for the September agenda.
The Final MYIP will then be sent to the Treasury Department for approval. Once approved, Treasury will then notify the County that it may begin submitting grant applications for the three (3) projects and activities consistent with this MYIP.
Comments regarding the MYIP may be sent to [email protected].
(NOTE: Though there has been recent news of a settlement with BP, that settlement has not yet been finalized, those funds are not yet available, the County has not yet determined the distribution of that funding, and therefore it is not a part of the MYIP at this time.)
For additional information, please contact Lisa Tennyson, Director of

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