THE NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR COASTAL AND MARINE ENVIRONMENTS (NRDAM/CME)1

1987 ◽  
Vol 1987 (1) ◽  
pp. 541-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Grigalunas ◽  
James J. Opaluch ◽  
Deborah French ◽  
Mark Reed
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Marine Environments ◽  
Environmental Response ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Natural Resource Damage Assessment ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Damage Assessment Model

ABSTRACT This paper describes the Natural Resouce Damage Assessment Model for Coastal and Marine Environments (NRDAM/CME) developed by the authors for the U.S. Department of the Interior. The NRDAM/CME is to be used for type A, simplified assessments of damages to natural resources in coastal and marine environments under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980. Given limited information supplied by an authorized official after a discharge or release covered by the act, the model simulates the physical fates, biological effects, and economic damages resulting from the incident.

COMPUTER MODELS FOR DAMAGE ASSESSMENT: ESTIMATES OF USE AND RESULTS1

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-344
Author(s):  
James F. Bennett ◽  
Bruce E. Peacock ◽  
Timothy R. Goodspeed
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Hazardous Substance ◽  
Natural Resource Damage Assessment ◽  
Damage Assessment Model

ABSTRACT Through the process of natural resource damage assessment (NRDA), certain public agencies have the authority to recover monetary damages from parties responsible for injury to natural resources from a discharge of oil or a release of a hazardous substance. Computer simulation models have been developed as simplified procedures for these natural resource trustees to use in calculating damages without undertaking extensive field studies. The revised Natural Resource Damage Assessment Model for Coastal and Marine Environments (NRDAM/CME) and the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Model for the Great Lakes Environments (NRDAM/GLE) are being developed to serve an expanding user community of public natural resource trustees. These tools may enable natural resource managers to expedite settlements and execute environmental restoration. To estimate the potential use of the NRDA models for oil spills, the authors have developed a set of candidate spill occurrences based on the historical record. Representing an estimated 337 applicable spill events in the subject year, 121 model runs generated damage figures ranging from zero to more than half a million dollars.

A COOPERATIVE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT: LESSONS FROM THE GREENHILL SPILL1

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 (1) ◽  
pp. 355-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Heather Warner Finley ◽  
James G. Hanifen ◽  
Pasquale F. Roscigno ◽  
Karolien Debusschere ◽  
Maura J. Newell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Success For All ◽  
Oil Well ◽  
Environmental Restoration ◽  
Environmental Response ◽  
Natural Resource Damage Assessment ◽  
Early Success ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT Following a September 1992 natural gas and oil well blowout in Timbalier Bay, Louisiana, natural resource trustees took action under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), Clean Water Act (CWA), and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) to restore the natural resources injured by the spill. Trustees appointed by the State of Louisiana and the U.S. Government worked cooperatively with the well owner, Greenhill Petroleum Corporation, in a natural resource damage assessment (NRDA). The resolution of the Greenhill NRDA marks an early success for all parties involved. The process was concluded in December 1993, only 14 months after the spill, when Greenhill and the trustees signed a natural resource restoration agreement. The cooperative assessment and innovative approaches used by the trustees and the well owner resulted in the rapid resolution of the case, rapid environmental restoration, and relatively low assessment costs.

Perspective on validating the natural resource damage assessment model system

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 217-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Grigalunas ◽  
James J. Opaluch ◽  
Deborah P. French ◽  
Mark Reed
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Model System ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Natural Resource Damage Assessment ◽  
Damage Assessment Model

OCS-RELATED OIL SPILL IMPACTS ON NATURAL RESOURCES: AN ECONOMIC RISK ANALYSIS1

1989 ◽  
Vol 1989 (1) ◽  
pp. 281-287
Author(s):  
James J. Opaluch ◽  
Thomas A. Grigalunas
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Outer Continental Shelf ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Natural Resource Damage Assessment ◽  
Oil Spill Cleanup

ABSTRACT Risk analyses of oil spills are important in the development of outer continental shelf (OCS) leasing policy as well as other marine policies relating to oil. This paper explores the use of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Model for Coastal and Marine Resources (NRDAM/CME) to provide a risk analysis of oil spills related to OCS oil development. For the categories of natural resources included in NRDAM/CME, the expected value of damages from large oil spills appears quite small relative to the value of oil developed. Expected damages range from $300,000 to $19.7 million per billion barrels of oil developed. Ongoing research by the authors will refine these estimates by including additional categories of damages, which will increase the damage estimates, and oil spill cleanup and the effect of OCS production on reducing imports, which will reduce the estimated net costs of OCS development.

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