Oil Spill Restoration Planning – Part 1 (RESTORE Act, NRDA, SEPs)

Kyle GrahamDeputy Executive DirectorCPRA 8/22/2012

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Clean Water Act Fines – Civil penalties are set on either the amount of oil discharged (up to $1,100-$4,300 per barrel) or the duration of the spill ($37,500 - $140,000 per day).

• Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPS)-Environmentally beneficial projects which a defendant/respondent agrees to undertake in settlement of an enforcement action, but which the defendant/respondent is not otherwise legally required to perform.

• RESTORE Act - Directs 80% of administrative and civil Clean Water Act penalties from the Deepwater Horizon spill to Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund.

Natural Resource Damage Assessment Restoration- The process under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 through which public officials attempt to return injured natural resources and service to the condition they would have been if the incident had not occurred and compensating for interim losses from the date of the incident until recovery of such natural resources through the restoration, rehabilitation, replacement, or acquisition of equivalent natural resources and/or services.

Centers of Excellence Research Grant Program

2.5% (+25% of the interest)

Photo Credit: NOAA

RESTORE Act

Interstate Ecosystem Restoration Council

Equal-Share State Allocations

Impact-Based State Allocations

Restoration Science, Observation, Monitoring, and Technology Program

30% (+ 50% of the interest)35%

2.5% (+25% of the interest)

NRDA - Restoration

Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana

RESTORE Trust FundOil Spill Restoration

Oyster Re-establishment Program (Louisiana Oyster Cultch Project)

Cheniere Ronquille Barrier Island Restoration

Lake Hermitage Additional Increment (NRDA Early Restoration Project)

Bay Side Segmented Breakwater at Grand Isle

Saltwater Hatchery West Grand Terre Beach Nourishment

Shell Island Restoration West Grand Terre Stabilization

Chandeleur Islands Restoration Barataria Basin Barrier Shoreline Restoration - Caminada Headland

Biloxi Marsh Shoreline Protection Caillou Lake

Grand Liard Marsh & Ridge Restoration

Coastal Restoration Projects“NRDA - Early Restoration”

Projects

2012 Master Plan- 1st Implementation PeriodSouthwest Coast Southeast Coast Central Coast

Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana

Next Steps:

RESTORE Act1.CPRA- Identify State priority projects2.Work with Parishes on Parish plans. 3.Continue to provide updates on process as it is established.

NRDA Restoration Planning1.Begin formal process.2.Discuss components of possible system wide restoration plan.

QUESTIONS?