Natural Resources

Hudson River Natural Resource Trustees Agencies

The Hudson River Natural Resource Trustees are conducting a natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) of resources in the Hudson River ecosystem associated with PCB contamination of the Hudson River below Hudson Falls. Trustee agencies include the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of the Interior Interior/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Park Service (NPS). The trustees act on behalf of the public to assess and restore natural resources injured by hazardous substances. NRDA is different from EPA Superfund cleanup. EPA focuses on cleaning up or containing the PCBs to reduce present and future risks to human health and the environment. In a NRDA, Trustees assess the past, current and future PCB injuries to the resources and identify and plan restoration actions to address these injuries.

The Trustees have recently released the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Plan , providing information on the planned, current, or completed Trustee-sponsored studies of natural resources exposed to PCBs. The Trustees have prepared a fact sheet ( Addressing PCB-Related Losses Along the Hudson River Through a Natural Resource Damage Claim) that explains what a natural resource damage claim is, the difference between a natural resource damage claim and a private claim, and the types of losses covered in such claims.

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