Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Methods and Cases

Survey of State Natural Resource Damages (NRD) Programs
1) Name of agency: ______________________________________________________________
2) Person/office responding to the survey (name, office, telephone, email, address):
3) List other agencies/offices in your state with Trustee authority/activity: ______________________
4) Does your state have independent state authority to address NRD issues? ___ yes ___ no
5) How many staff (in FTE) do you have working on NRD assessment and/or recovery?
Economists: _____ Natural scientists: _____ Attorneys: _____ Other: _____ Total: ________
6) What is your annual budget for NRD activity in the current fiscal year?
Damage recoveries: $___________ State funds: $____________
Assessment costs recovered: $___________ Other: $____________ Total: $____________
7) In what calendar year did your office begin its NRD activity? ______
8) How many NRD cases did your office settle prior to 1995? ______
9) From 1995 to the present, how many pre-assessment screens did you carry out? ______
Of those, how many cases met the criteria for potential further action? ______
Of those, how many cases do you actually intend to pursue further? ______
10) Do you have any particular original, simplified method(s) for assessing natural resource damages that
If so:
is(are) designed especially for use by staff members of your office? (This could be a lookup table,
decision-making protocol, computer program, etc.)
(a) Briefly describe the method(s) in the space below.
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___ yes ___ no
(b) Do you have documentation for that method that you would be willing to share with us for the purposes of
our project? ___ yes ___ no
(c) Please provide a name and contact information for any staff member who would be willing to talk further
to us about the nature of the method(s) you have developed: