| Selected by the Texas Coastal Advisory Board for funding. |
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Funded by US Department of Interior/ Managed by the Texas General Land Office on behalf of the Texas Coastal Land Advisory Board (TCEQ, RRC, GLO)
In 2012, we initiated the EFD Coastal Impacts Technology Program, EFD-CITP. This core EFD project will supply various opportunities for stakeholders to increase their understanding of how cost effective, low impact technologies may be applied to wetlands, semi-arid and upland woodland ecosystems. The EFD-CITP is a 4 – 5 year, $4 million program.
The EFD-CITP is a research and demonstration program that may lead to commercial application of technologies that will reduce the environmental impacts of unconventional natural gas and other petroleum exploration and production activities along the Texas Gulf Coast. The project area includes all the coastal counties in Texas, as the research demonstration, testing, commercial applications and workshops will be held in various coastal counties. The CITP is a comprehensive program that identifies environmentally friendly technologies, implements the technologies along the Gulf Coast, measures the effectiveness of the technologies to conserve, protect or restore the natural coastal environment, and educates the workforce. The goal is to provide a program of research and demonstration that may lead to commercial application of technologies that will reduce the environmental impacts of unconventional natural gas and other petroleum exploration and production activities along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Objectives include:
· Technology Road Mapping: Identify technologies that will reduce the environmental impact of oil and gas activities along the Texas Gulf Coast;
· Environmental Impact Mitigation: Evaluate technologies that may mitigate the environmental impacts of oil and gas exploration and production on coastal areas;
· Inter-state Collaboration: Coordinate efforts with other producing states to identify, formalize and co-fund collaborations regarding applicable technologies; and
· Workforce Program: create and implement an educational workforce program to focus on a skilled workforce in environmental mitigation of exploration and production impacts in coastal regions, in particular, the Texas Gulf Coast.