{
  "projectDescription": "The goal of this project is to support an existing effort to re-establish sand-dwelling kelp canopy to the Goleta Beach area.  The existing project is currently underway under separate funding, initiated by a small group of dedicated citizen scientists who are attempting to restore the kelp forest that once existed in Goleta Bay. While there is no rocky reef habitat in the bay that typically supports kelp forests, it has been speculated that the kelp had once established itself on tube-forming worm colonies that frequent open sand habitats (e.g., colonies of the tube worms belonging to the genus Diopatra). The project aims to restore these “sand-dwelling” kelp plants by inserting small granite columns into the sediment, exposing the top 10-20 cm of the column to kelp recruitment. The ultimate goal of this project is that kelp holdfasts will spread beyond the area occupied by the granite column and form a kelp forest of sufficient density to support kelp canopy. The scope of the NRDA project is to extend the existing project by expanding the permits associated with the current one-acre project and to implement a systematic monitoring program.",
  "program": "DARRP",
  "name": "Refugio Beach Oil Spill - Sand-dwelling Kelp Restoration Project",
  "id": "5973",
  "state": "California",
  "state_abbr": "CA",
  "region": "SWR - Southwest",
  "orrId": "8934",
  "constructionStartDate": "2026-09-14 00:00:00.0",
  "nepaStatus": "Complete",
  "nepaCompliance": "Other programmatic EA",
  "fedLeverage": "0",
  "nonFedLeverage": "0",
  "accompReportStatus": "In-Progress",
  "accompReportDate": "2030-09-29 00:00:00.0",
  "accompAcresMilesFlag": "Y",
  "accompVolFlag": "Y",
  "accompDebrisFlag": "Y",
  "status": "Planning",
  "locations": [
    {
      "latitude": "34.00678",
      "longitude": "-119.012",
      "county": "Oswego County",
      "city": "Pine Meadows",
      "congDistrict": "22",
      "riverBasin": "Salmon River Resevoir-Salmon River",
      "huc": "41401020702"
    }
  ],
  "species": [
    {
      "species": "pyrifera",
      "genus": "Macrocystis",
      "commonName": "Kelp, giant",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    }
  ],
  "partners": [
    {
      "name": "US Fish and Wildlife Service",
      "fedAgency": "US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)"
    },
    {
      "name": "California Department of Fish and Wildlife"
    },
    {
      "name": "University of California"
    },
    {
      "name": "California State Parks"
    },
    {
      "name": "California State Lands Commission"
    }
  ],
  "strategies": [
    {
      "name": "Does not fall under a strategy",
      "primaryFlag": "Y"
    }
  ],
  "techniques": [
    {
      "name": "Planting"
    }
  ],
  "monitoring": [
    {
      "monitorResultId": "99621FD0-1402-F111-8407-001DD80DB62A",
      "monitorConductFlag": "N"
    }
  ]
}