Gulf of Mexico Program

• Project title
• Location map with other pertinent features (e.g., classification line, administrative closures, pollution sources, harvest leases, location names, municipalities)
• Project reference number
• Basin
• Parish
• Local communities involved and affected
  

• What (including pertinent historical problems, issues, efforts, and projects)
• Problem (where, how many, how much, how often)
• Proposed restoration strategy description
  

• On-the-ground physical project boundaries
• FCB levels
• Salinity regime
• Bottom typology
• Oyster abundance (both adjacent and downstream resources)
• Current monitoring programs (and sampling locations) or related projects within the project boundaries
  

• Status and history of classification lines and/or administrative closures at the project site
• The proposed mechanism to either to upgrade the classification of growing waters (i.e., move the seasonal classification line inland or lift a prohibited/restricted closure)
• The predicted area (e.g., number of acres) that will be upgraded
• An assessment of the time to see results and proposed mechanisms by which to measure the project's success
• Other potential sources of FCBs (including both human sources and wildlife sources) that might confound potential upgrades
• Collateral project benefits that lead to a reduction in public health hazards
• Collateral project benefits that improve water quality
• Collateral project benefits that expand or enhance habitat
• Collateral project benefits that expand or improve the local economy (particularly to increase shellfish harvest)
• Potential to transfer lessons learned to other sites in the watershed or in other estuaries

• Predicted increases in production
• An assessment of the time to see results and proposed mechanisms by which to measure the project's success
• Collateral project benefits that expand or enhance habitat
• Collateral project benefits that expand or improve the local economy (particularly to increase shellfish harvest)
• Potential to transfer lessons learned to other sites in the watershed or in other estuaries

• Predicted increases in production
• An assessment of the time to see results and proposed mechanisms by which to measure the project's success
• Collateral project benefits that lead to a reduction in public health hazards
• Collateral project benefits that improve water quality
• Collateral project benefits that expand or improve the local economy (particularly to increase shellfish harvest)
• Potential to transfer lessons learned to other sites in the watershed or in other estuaries
  

• Coastal restoration projects (e.g., freshwater and sediment diversion, siphons, dredged material placement, wetland creation)
• Navigation projects (e.g., dredging, channels, locks)
• Flood control projects (e.g., stormwater dispersion, levees, terraces, canals, ditches)
• Erosion control projects (e.g., wetland and barrier island restoration)
• Other possible unintended project benefits or hindrances
• Oil and gas activities (both habitat and pollution perspectives)
  

• Initial (construction) costs
• Operation and maintenance costs
• Costs associated with not implementing the project
• Document method of cost evaluation
• Options and ranges, if appropriate
  

• Traditional opportunities and the potential to obtain them
• Alternative financing opportunities
• Probability of receiving funding
• Cost to local community (local share)
• Cost to state (state share)
  

• Demographic status and trends
• Local citizen support including landowners (taxpayers)
• Oyster industry support
• Local business support
• Local government support (including planning activities e.g., state lands)
• State support (including planning activities e.g., state lands)
  
• Federal support (including planning activities e.g., state lands)
  

• Champions
• Stakeholders
• Decision makers
• Opinion leaders, more focused group of stakeholders
  

• 11 Detailed Restoration Strategy Description
• What to do, step by step
• Where
• How (including required legislative action, regulatory action, and enforcement action)
• How to pay for it
• Who and roles they have (including roles of GMP and its state and federal agency partners)
• When
• What is success and the mechanism by which to measure this success
  

• Pre-implementation
• During implementation
• Post implementation