NOAA hopes to use BP funds to establish GulfCorps program

NOAA hopes to use BP funds to establish GulfCorps program

Through the RESTORE Council, NOAA and federal and state partners are working to establish a GulfCorps program that will provide the labor for on-the-ground restoration projects through the Gulf states. The Nature Conservancy has been recommended to receive $7 million from RESTORE funding from BP to establish this GulfCorps program. The RESTORE funds. NOAA is committed to restoring the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.