National Marine Sanctuaries Act
16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.

Specific Natural Resource Trustee Authorities:

Section 1432 :

• defines natural resource damages to include—
  • the cost of replacing, restoring, or acquiring the equivalent of a sanctuary resource
  • the value of the lost use of the resource pending its restoration
  • the cost of damage assessments, and
  • reasonable costs of monitoring

Section 1443 :

• establishes liability for destruction, loss of or injuries to sanctuary resources
• authorizes the pursuit of civil actions for response costs and damages
• requires that recovered response costs and damages be used—
  • to finance response actions and damage assessments
  • to restore, replace or acquire the equivalent of the injured sanctuary resource, and
  • to manage and improve national marine sanctuaries