Natural Resources Symposium

september 18, 2025 intergenerational cross training workshop:

 NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND RESTORATION

RESOURCE materials

Select materials related to topics on the Workshop’s agenda appear below. Additional materials that multistakeholder Workshop participants may wish to propose for posting here are most welcome and may be sent to info@nrdonline.org.

Workshop Materials

• Interactive Session 1: CERCLA Case Example

• Interactive Session 2: OPA Case Example

Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Management Group

• Industry/Trustee NRD Standing Committee Activities and Resources

• Best Practice Approach Frameworks in the Context of Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration: PFAS, Climate, Remediation/Restoration and Emergency Response/Restoration (December 2024)

• Stahl, Ralph, Jr., Jeffrey Martin, Theordore Tomasi, Ph.D., and Barbara J. Goldsmith, "If coordination of remediation and restoration under CERCLA is such a good idea, why is it not practiced more widely?", Journal of Environmental Management, Vole 340, Issue 15, August 2023

• Desvousges, William, Ph.D., Nicholas Gard, et. al, "Habitat and Resource Equivalency Analysis", Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), 2018

• “Beyond the Headlines: Best Practices to Restore Natural Resources Injured by Long-Term Hazardous Waste Releases, Oil Spills and Transport and Other Accidents” (2014)

• Boehm, Paul D. and Thomas C. Ginn, "The Science of Natural Resource Damage Assessments", Environmental Claims Journal, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2013

US Department of Commerce/National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

• NRDA Regulations (15 CRF Part 990)

• Data Integration, Visualization, Exploration, and Reporting (DIVER)

• Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA)

• Guidance Documents for Natural Resource Damage Assessment under the Oil Pollution Act

• Guidance for Recognition and Use of Restoration Banks in Natural Resource Damage Assessments

US Department of the Interior

• NRDA Regulations (43 CRF Part 11)

• Proposed Rulemaking: Natural Resource Damages for Hazardous Substances (89 Fed. Reg. 733) (2024)

• Office of Restoration and Damage Assessment Trainings

• 2025 National NRDAR Workshop Videos

• Update of the Operating Principles for Restoration Activities

• Best Practices for Considering Advance Restoration and Restoration Banking in the Context of NRDAR

US Department of Energy

• Natural Resource Damage Assessment Cooperation and Integration Policy (2012)

State of Louisiana

• The Louisiana Regional Restoration Planning Program (RRP Program)