dc.contributor.author	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-01T15:03:22Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-01T15:03:22Z
dc.date.issued	2016-02
dc.description.abstract	In accordance with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the federal and state natural resource trustee agencies (Trustees) have prepared a Final Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Final PDARP/PEIS). The Final PDARP/PEIS considers programmatic alternatives, composed of Restoration Types, to restore natural resources, ecological services, and recreational use services injured or lost as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident. The OPA natural resource damage assessment regulations guided the Trustees development and evaluation of programmatic restoration alternatives. The Final PDARP/PEIS also evaluates the environmental consequences of the restoration alternatives under NEPA. This document shows that the injuries caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill incident affected such a wide array of linked resources over such an enormous area that the effects must be described as constituting an ecosystem-level injury. Consequently, the Trustees preferred alternative for a restoration plan employs a comprehensive, integrated ecosystem approach to best address these ecosystem-level injuries. Specific restoration projects, to be selected in subsequent planning phases and evaluated under OPA and NEPA, will take place	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Texas Parks and Wildlife Department; Texas General Land Office; Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority; Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office; Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality; Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries; Louisiana Department of Natural Resources; Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality; Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; Natural Resources Geological Survey of Alabama; Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S. Department of the Interior	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/28994
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	deepwater horizon	en_US
dc.subject	oil spill	en_US
dc.subject	environmental impact statement	en_US
dc.subject	restoration	en_US
dc.title	Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Final Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Final Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

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