Natural Resource Damage Assessments

If your organization faces liability related to the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) process, you want ELM on your side.

NRDA is the process whereby state, federal and/or tribal trustees determine compensation owed to the public for injuries to natural resources. With experience on over 100 cases across 30+ states, ELM staff members are well positioned to assist clients in managing these liabilities.

Whether you’re subject to the provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the National Contingency Plan (NCP), Oil Pollution Act (OPA 1990), or any of numerous state statutes, ELM provides proven expertise and comprehensive solutions.

• Strategy development including trustee negotiation support;
• Expert witness and litigation support for NRDA related cases;
• Cooperative NRDA implementation and management;
• Pre-assessment, injury determination and quantification, and restoration plan development and implementation;
• Compensatory restoration scaling including expertise with natural resource economic valuations such as habitat equivalency analysis (HEA);
• Technical study design and implementation;
• NRDA liability management actions into contingency plans and support during emergency response;
• Experience and technical expertise in integrating NRDA into an ongoing regulatory site investigation.