What's New:
ANNOUNCEMENT: Texas RESTORE and South Padre Island Open Free Public Boat Ramp
The Marisol Boat Ramp, funded in large part by Texas RESTORE, will be the first free public boat ramp opened in 30 years and provides an ADA-accessible dock, free parking, and fish cleaning station. Located on the Laguna Madre side of the island, this new $3.2 million facility will help encourage tourism during the off-peak season on South Padre Island and support the emerging boating economy in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
08/03/2026
Texas State Expenditure Plan Amendment #3-2026: 45-Day Public Notice – ADDENDUM
The unallocated amounts from the Nature Based Tourism (NBT) and the Shoreline and Beach Restoration (SBR) Programs to the proposed Texas Land Acquisition for Coastal Conservation (TLACC) Program have been updated. The Texas State Expenditure Plan Amendment #3-2026 will be updated with the revisions once the public comment period has ended.
06/17/2026
Texas State Expenditure Plan Amendment #3-2026: 45-Day Public Notice
Steven Schar, Deputy Executive Director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), announces the opportunity for the public to provide input on its draft Texas State Expenditure Plan Amendment #3-2026 to secure funds under the Spill Impact Component section of the federal RESTORE Act.
05/08/2026
MIP Amendment –01: 45-day Public Notice
Notice of Public Input Period on the Draft of Texas’ Multiyear Implementation Plan Amendment
10/07/2025
Video Release: RESTORE Funded Project
Texas RESTORE program has released a video highlighting the Galveston beneficial dredge project.
06/22/2022
Release of Videos
TCEQ Executive Director Baker is pleased to announce the release of videos highlighting four RESTORE and Deep Water Horizon-funded projects in Texas. Three of the videos display land acquisition projects and the fourth details a project supporting efforts to provide technical and non-technical training, professional development and work experience in restoration, conservation and resiliency.
04/25/2022
Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund (NFWF)
Learn about restoration funded by the criminal case settlements from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Where the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is working with state and federal agencies to administer spill restoration.
Government Trustees Restoring the Gulf (NRDA)
Learn about the state and federal Natural Resource Trustees and the efforts underway to restore the resources harmed by the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill through the Oil Pollution Act's natural resource damage process.
Civil Penalties Funding Gulf Restoration (RESTORE Act)
Learn about the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council, set up when Congress passed the federal RESTORE Act in 2012, to administer civil penalty funding for spill restoration and economic recovery and the Texas RESTORE Advisory Board (TxRAB).