Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990
33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.

Specific Natural Resource Trustee Authorities:

Section 1002:

• establishes liability for injury to, destruction of, loss of, or loss of use of natural resources

Section 1006:

• designates natural resource trustees
• authorizes recovery of natural resource damages as the result of oil spills
• defines natural resource damages to include—
  • the cost of restoring, rehabilitating, replacing or acquiring the equivalent of the damaged resources
  • the reasonable cost of assessing those damages, and
  • the diminution in values of those natural resources pending restoration
• requires NOAA to promulgate regulations for assessing natural resource damages under OPA.