The natural resource damage assessment and restoration process produces a number of public documents associated with individual cases. These documents, which explain, demonstrate and inform the decision-making process, can be broadly grouped into five categories: Fact Sheets, Agreements, Settlement Documents, Assessment Documents and Restoration Documents. The specific types of public process documents that can be found in each of these categories include:

Fact Sheets: Fact Sheet.

Agreements: Trustees Agreement (also called Co-Trustees Agreement); Cooperative Agreement (also called Funding and Participation Agreement); Restoration Agreement; Federal Facility Agreement.

Settlement Documents: Damages Agreement; Administrative Order on Consent; Consent Decree; Consent Judgment; Consent Order; Settlement Agreement; Settlement Stipulation; National Pollution Funds Center Claim Determination (Claim Determination).

Assessment Documents: Preassessment Screen and Determination (Preassessment Screen); various presassesssment reports; Restoration and Compensation Determination Plan (RCDP); Preliminary Estimate of Damages; Assessment Plan; Assessment Report; various other assessment reports.

Restoration Documents: Restoration Plan; Administrative Record Index; various restoration implementation and monitoring reports.

Once a case has settled or partially settled and these documents become available, they are added to the table below. The name used to commonly refer to the case is found in green type in the first column.