Download or read book 2010 Oil Spill written by Kristina Alexander and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill leaked an estimated 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, damaging the waters, shores, and marshes, and the fish and wildlife that live there. There is a process for assessing the damages to those natural resources and assigning responsibility for restoration to the parties responsible. BP was named the responsible party for the spill. The process allows Trustees of affected states and the fed. gov¿t. to determine the levels of harm and the appropriate remedies. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.: Statutory Authority; Trustees; Covered Natural Resources; Determination of Damages; (2) How the Process Works; (3) Restoration Options; Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; Settlement vs. Litigation. Illus.

Download or read book Natural Resource Damage Assessment Guidance Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about how to assess damages to natural resources from a discharge of oil. Notes that the guidelines, developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), allow natural resource trustees to focus on environmental injuries, plan and implement efficient and effective restoration of natural resources, and encourage public and responsible party involvement in the restoration. Explains that the guidelines were developed as part of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), which was passed following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Offers access to documents in PDF format related to the preassessment phase, injury assessment, compensation formulas, primary restoration, and restoration planning. Provides information about how to order the print version of the guidance documents. Links to the home page of the NOAA Damage Assessment and Restoration Center Northwest.

Download or read book Natural Resource Damage Assessment Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 written by United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Injury Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Restoration Planning written by Eli Reinharz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preassessment Phase written by Eli Reinharz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Natural Resource Damage Assessment Guidelines for Developing Restoration Plans Oil Pollution Act of 1990 written by Eli Reinharz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 2010 Oil Spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment Under the Oil Pollution Act written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill leaked an estimated 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, damaging the waters, shores, and marshes, and the fish and wildlife that live there. The Oil Pollution Act (OPA) establishes a process for assessing the damages to those natural resources and assigning responsibility for restoration to the parties responsible. BP was named the responsible party for the spill. The Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) process allows Trustees of affected states and the federal government (and Indian tribes and foreign governments, if applicable) to determine the levels of harm and the appropriate remedies. The types of damages that are recoverable include the cost of replacing or restoring the lost resource, the lost value of those resources if or until they are recovered, and any costs incurred in assessing the harm. Claims by individuals or businesses are not allowed, as all injuries are to the resources managed by state, federal, tribal, or foreign governments. OPA allows recovery from the responsible parties for harm resulting from response efforts, which in this case could include in situ burning, use of dispersants, and vehicle traffic on shores and marshes. The $20 billion escrow fund set up by BP in June 2010 is not for government NRDA claims, but it can be used to reimburse individual losses of subsistence use of natural resources, primarily lost fishing opportunities, which are covered by OPA.

Download or read book Injury Guidance Document for Natural Resources and Services Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 written by Michael T. Huguenin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This draft document is intended to be used as a tool in injury assessments under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). This draft document is not regulatory in nature. Trustees are not required to use this document in order to receive a rebuttable [sic] presumption for natural resource damage assessment rule under OPA. Any inconsistencies between this draft and the proposed natural resource damage assessment rule under OPA should be interpreted in favor of the proposed rule. This draft doucment does not necessarily represent the views of the United States government"--Disclaimer.

Download or read book Natural Resource Damage Assessment guidance document written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill written by Adam Vann and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report that examines the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) process under the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) in the context of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Download or read book The Use and Misuse of Science in Natural Resource Damage Assessment written by Gary S. Mauseth and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) process generally followed in federal cases is intended to determine and quantify injury and related damages resulting from a pollution event, such as an oil spill. This paper reviews and comments on the fundamental issues raised by recent NRDA experiences and suggests way in which the process can be significantly improved. The paper also reviews regulations developed by the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the draft regulation proposed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Because NRDA is in large part fundamentally a scientific inquiry, the paper addresses the current difficulties, complexities, and constraints in applying the scientific method to real-time pollution events such as oil spills. In addition, these pollution events, in particular large oil spills, generate enormous public scrutiny, creating great political pressures on natural resource trustees and those named as responsible for the spill in determining natural resource damages based on uncertain data. A workable and reasonable NRDA result requires careful use of available scientific theory and information, which is frequently incomplete. The potential for resolution of NRDAs raises difficult issues of the proper use of science in the context of the confrontational process of litigation. Unfortunately, the NRDA process raises the prospect of the improper use of science-especially where data are not available or are inconclusive or scientific theory is not clearly established-as a tool of selective advocacy serving one side or another rather than the dispassionate search for truth. Various options for preventing the misuse of science are presented. The authors conclude that if the focus of all participants in the NRDA is the efficient and equitable determination of injury, damage and restoration of the environment where possible, the potential for misuse of science is minimized"--Abstract.

Download or read book To Amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to Improve that Act and for Other Purposes written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill written by Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Natural Resource Trustees and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In accordance with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the federal and state natural resource trustee agencies (Trustees) have prepared a Final Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Final PDARP/PEIS). The Final PDARP/PEIS considers programmatic alternatives, composed of Restoration Types, to restore natural resources, ecological services, and recreational use services injured or lost as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident. The OPA natural resource damage assessment regulations guided the Trustees' development and evaluation of programmatic restoration alternatives. The Final PDARP/PEIS also evaluates the environmental consequences of the restoration alternatives under NEPA. This document shows that the injuries caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident affected such a wide array of linked resources over such an enormous area that the effects must be described as constituting an ecosystem-level injury. Consequently, the Trustees' preferred alternative for a restoration plan employs a comprehensive, integrated ecosystem approach to best address these ecosystem-level injuries. Specific restoration projects, to be selected in subsequent planning phases and evaluated under OPA and NEPA, will take place primarily in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

Download or read book Liability for Damage to Public Natural Resources Standing Damage and Damage Assessment written by Edward Brans and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2001-10-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on liability for damage to those natural resources that are of interest to the public and are protected by national, European or international law. It provides an overview of the law of the United States and of certain EU Member States on the recovery of damages for injury to natural resources. The international civil liability conventions that cover environmental harm and the recently published European Commission's White Paper on environmental liability are also discussed. The on-going development in various international forums of treaties or protocols dealing with liability for environmental damage are analyzed, as are the principles developed by the UNEP Working Group established in response to the 1990 Gulf War to advise the UNCC on claims for damage to natural resources. The book addresses assessment and valuation issues, the issue of standing in cases of injury to (un)owned natural resources, and the determination of ways to repair, restore and compensate for natural resource injuries and the associated loss of ecological and human services. It also explains why such a difference exists between the US and most European jurisdictions and inter-national liability conventions as to the recovery of damages for injury to natural resources.

Download or read book 1990 State federal Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Assessment and Restoration Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: