The Oil Pollution Act and Superfund natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) regulations provide
guidance on how trustees and responsible parties can potentially work together
on oil spill and hazardous substance cases. However, such discussions are often
limited to case circumstances. Dialogue outside the context of cases is not so
constrained, and can serve to complement future case discussions by addressing
overarching NRDA issues that might otherwise not be broached and help develop
relations outside the potentially adversarial environment of a case. Therein
lies the genesis of the regional, informal venues such as the Joint Assessment
Teams (JATs or practitioner roundtables) and regional CAP workshops (see
"Workshops and Conference Proceedings" section). The material posted provides a
window into some of these discussions and products.
Great Lakes Roundtable Meeting, July 18-19, 2007.
Guidance
Cooperative Assessment Process (fact sheet),
May 2005.
Cooperative Assessment Project (CAP) Framework,
October 2003.
CAP Compendium of Additional Ideas and Example
Documents, October 2003.
Press Clippings
"NOAA Develops Model for Cooperatively Resolving NRD
Claims," Inside EPA's Superfund Report, January 20, 2003. This
article originally appeared in Superfund Report, January 20, 2003.
Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers.
Copyright 2003. All rights reserved.
"The Cooperative Assessment Pilot Project (CAPP),"
SETAC Globe, n.d.
"NOAA Moves Ahead with Cooperative NRD Approach at
Superfund Sites," Inside EPA's Superfund Report, June 24,
2002. This article originally appeared in Superfund Report, June 24,
2002. Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers.
Copyright 2002. All rights reserved.
Workgroup Meetings
May 2003, summary of stakeholder workgroup
meeting.
September 2002, summary of stakeholder workgroup
meeting.
May 2002, summary of stakeholder workgroup
meeting.
December 2001, issue paper for the stakeholder
meeting.
December 2001, summary of stakeholder meeting.
June/July 2001, issue paper for the stakeholder
meetings.
June/July 2001, summary of stakeholder meetings.
NRDA Cooperative Papers
Accomplishing
Restoration: A Reference Guide for Restoring Natural Resources Under the
Comprehensive Environmental Restoration, Compensation, and Liability Act, Oil
Pollution Act and Federal and State Laws, July 10, 2006. Developed by
the ASTSWMO Natural Resource Damages Focus Group.
Use of Sediment
Quality Guidelines in Damage Assessment and Restoration at Contaminated Sites
in the United States, 2005. Published by Society of Environmental
Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC.) Posted pending final permission. The article
is copyrighted by The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
Copyright © 2005, ISBN 1-880611-71-6.
Cooperative Natural Resources Damage Assessment and
Restoration Workshop: Working Together to Restore Injured Natural Resources,
2005 International Oil Spill Conference in Miami Beach, FL
ASTSWMO Cooperation in the Natural Resource Damages Process:
Initiation, Assessment and Restoration, March 2004. Developed by
the ASTSWMO Natural Resource Damages Focus Group.
Integration of Response, Restoration, and Enhancement
in a Northwest United States Salmonid Stream Following a Gasoline Spill,
2003 International Oil Spill Conference.
Emergency and Long-Term Restoration Planning for the
1999 Olympic Pipeline Company Spill, Whatcom Creek, Bellingham, Washington, USA,
2003 International Oil Spill Conference.
NOAA's Approach to Cooperatively Resolving Natural
Resource Liability, May 30, 2002.
The Lake Barre Oil Spill NRDA: From Response to
Restoration, 2001 International Oil Spill Conference.
Key Elements of a Cooperative Assessment Process: The
Trustee Perspective, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
(SETAC) Conference, November 11, 2001.
The Benefits of Cooperative Natural Resource Damage
Assessment, Baltic International Maritime Council (BIMCO) Review, 2000.
Natural Resource Damages: Perspectives on Cooperative
Assessments and Restoration of Natural Resources, appearing in National
Environmental Enforcement Journal, volume 15, April 2000. Copyright
National Association of Attorneys General. Posted with permission.
Perspectives on Achieving Cooperation in Assessing Injury
and Planning the Restoration of Natural Resources, 1999. Copyright
Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO)
CERCLA NRD Focus Group. Posted with permission.
Cooperative Assessments: Enticing the Parties to the
Table, second annual IBC Conference on NRDA, October 4-5, 1999.
NOAA's Approach to NRDA: What Do Trustees Want?,
second annual IBC Conference on NRDA, October 4-5, 1999.
Industry's Role in Texas' Natural Resource Damage
Assessment, Clean Gulf Conference, October 7, 1997.
CERCLA Coordination with Natural Resource Trustees,
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
(OSWER) directive no. 9200.4-22A, July 31, 1997.
Uncertain Success: Evaluating the Potential of
Cooperative Damage Assessments Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990,
April 1997.
Cooperative NRDA Plans: A New Imperative,
appearing in Natural Resources & Environment, volume. 8, number 2,
Fall 1993.
A Cooperative Approach for Measuring Direct-Use
Damages: The 1992 Avila Beach (California) Oil Spill, 1995 Oil Spill
Conference.
The Role of Natural Resource Trustees in the Superfund
Process, March 1992.
Workshops and Conference Proceedings
Prospective Environmental
Restoration/Restoration Up Front, SETAC Paper January 2008.
2007 SETAC Presentation: Restoration
Up Front, November 2007.
Prospective Restoration/Restoration Up Front Workshop, September 6-7, 2006.
Northeast Regional NRDA Workshop,
Newport, Rhode Island, May 30 - June 1, 2006.
Great Lakes Regional
NRDA Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, November 1-3, 2005.
Southeast/Gulf Region
NRDA Workshop Report, April 13-14, 2005.
A Habitat Restoration-Based Approach for Resolving
Natural Resource Damages Claims, 2004.
Cooperative Natural Resource and Damage Assessment and
Restoration Workshop San Diego, California, June 9-10, 2004.
Getting to Restoration. Copyright 2004, The
Environmental Law Institute. Reprinted with permission from The Environmental
Forum, May/June 2004.
Expediting Natural
Resource Restoration: Conducting Cooperative Natural Resource Damage
Assessments, from the Environmental Law Institute seminar, February 5,
2004.
Bayou Trepagnier: Incorporating Stakeholder Engagement
and Multiple Regulatory Processes in Identification of Resolution of Options
for Contaminated Sites (PowerPoint presentation), from the Restore
America's Estuaries Inaugural Conference, April 15, 2003.
2001 SETAC Short Course: NRDA Cooperative Efforts,
November 2001.
2001 ISOC Short Course: NRDA Cooperative Efforts,
from the International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC), March 26, 2001.
Workshop on NRDA Lessons Learned, May 11-12, 2000. [Document not available at
this time.]
Environmental Conflict Resolution
Using Environmental Conflict Resolution in Natural Resource
Damage Assessments.