Natural Resource Damage Assessment Work Plan for Determining Injury to the Piping Plover ('Charadrius melodus') from the Deepwater Horizon (MC 252) Oil Spill. Bird Study No. 7.

摘要

The Deepwater Horizon (MC 252) oil spill began April 22, 2010. The Natural Resource Trustees (Trustees) for this oil spill with interest in birds include, but are not limited to, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), the National Park Service, and the natural resource agencies of the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The Trustees are authorized under the Oil Pollution Act (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) to assess natural resource damages associated with the harm caused to natural resources by the releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil. The activities proposed in this study plan are part of the natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) being conducted by the Trustees. Oil spill related injury to wildlife is of major concern to the Trustees and the American public.