Okaloosa County BOCC — August 18, 2015 — TNC Okaloosa Presentation

TNC’s Efforts to Support Effective RESTORE Implementation Darryl Boudreau, Director Florida Local Government Relations  FL DWH DISTRIBUTION RESTORE (Transocean $800M, BP $4.4B) Direct Component 1 $56M / $308M 2.5% Traditional Opportunity Federal Component NOAA • Grants 2 $240M / $1.32B Center of • Agency Budgets State Component Excellence 3 $22M • Public Private $44M / $242M Partnerships (P3) NFWF (GEBF) • Emergency Funds $356M Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) $680M ~$565M remaining Economic Settlement $2B (75% Panhandle, 25% statewide)  FLORIDA DWH RELATED FUNDING COMPONENTS • Direct Component (Pot 1) split between the 23 Gulf Coastal Counties Challenge… • Federal Component (Pot 2) administered by the RESTORE Council (5 state, 6 federal members) restoration. Leverage this opportunity to leave • State Component (Pot 3) 23 Counties formed Consortium and are charged with developing state a legacy of improved expenditure plan (Governor and Council approves) environmental and economic resilience • Criminal (NFWF GEBF) FWC charged with submitting state priority funding requests of Gulf Coastal Communities • Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) negotiations between Florida and Trustee Council • Economic Claims (75% to Triumph 25% Legislature)  STRATEGY Harness the energy and focus on the Gulf to create long-term community based watershed groups that continually work together to Identify the most important issues to address to increase the long-term environmental and economic health and stability of Gulf Coastal communities by: We must create links to make the – identifying the priority suite of projects that address the most important issues strongest chainge… – matching each project to the most • RESTORE (Civil) appropriate funding source. • NEBF (Criminal) • NRDA (Environmental) – measuring results and adaptively managing • Triumph (Economic) to ensure maximum effectiveness • Grants, P3, Etc. (Traditional)  WATERSHED PLANNING • Convene stakeholders representing Over 1,300 Federal, State and Local agencies, NGOs, Economic groups and project ideas citizens to identify each watershed’s: totaling over – Priority issues – Root causes of each issue $16 Billion worth – Major actions needed to fix the issues of work… – Specific projects that implement the major actions.