| Selected by the Texas Coastal Advisory Board for funding. |
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The EFD Coastal Impacts Technology Program, EFD-CITP will supply various opportunities for stakeholders to increase their understanding of how cost effective, low impact technologies may be applied 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.