Natural resource damage assessment
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A Natural Resource Damage Assessment is a procedure authorized in the USA under CRCLA or OPA that involves whereby Federal, State and Tribal natural resource trustees identifies and quantifies an injury to natural resources by an oil spill or unpermitted chemical contamination, and then through negotiation or legal action, works with responsible parties to make the public whole through restorative actions.
Notes
- NRDA claims and negotiations often use a Habitat Equivalency Analysis to generate tradable units.
- It would be nice to have links to relevant statue here
- Washington State Department of Ecology commonly represents the State of Washington.
- NOAA and USFWS commonly represent the Federal Government.
- Tribes participate based on overlapping usual and accustomed areas of traditional land use.
- The largest NRDA cases in the Salish Sea are in the Duwamish Delta and Puyallup Delta.
- A wave of NRDA actions are related to Ecology's Puget Sound Initiative
