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The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) is a 10-year independent research program formed to study the impacts of the spill on the environment and public health. About a month after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill BP announced that they would provide $500 million to fund an independent research program. With this funding GoMRI was formed. The GoMRI research board, which is independent from BP, makes funding and research decisions, and as of early 2014 over $175 million has been distributed to research institutions, many of which are located in Gulf states.