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Ecology Publications & Forms |
| Title | Rule Adoption Notice - Oil Spill Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Historical) |
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| VIEW NOW | This publication is historical. It is unavailable on our website. To request a copy, please use the contact listed below. | ||||
| Author(s) | Rebecca Post | ||||
| Description | Chapter 173-183 is the foundation of the NRDA program for oil spills. This rule: • Discribes the Resource Damage Assessment committee made up of state resource trustees • Sets up a preassessment screening process to determine the best process to use for assessing damages • Establishes compensation schedules for Marine Waters, Columbia River Estuary, Freshwater Streams and Lakes, and Freshwater Wetlands. • Establishes formulas for actually calculating the damages • Establishes a procedure to reduce the monetary amount of damages based on early recover actions by the spiller. |
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| NOTES | The following changes were adopted: • Updated the monetary amount of compensation that can be calculated for spills of 1,000 gallons or greater in volume from $1 to $100 to a new range of $3 to $300 per gallon spilled. • Amended the mathematical formula m | ||||
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| Contact | Spills Program Publications Coordinator at 360-407-7211 or spillspubs@ecy.wa.gov | ||||
| Keywords | oil spill compensation schedule, restoration, rule adoption notice, natural resources, oil spill | ||||
| WEB PAGE | Read this rule on the Code Reviser's website |
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