Restoration Implementation. During restoration activities, each Party shall serve as a primary contact for the other Party regarding information about restoration activities in its Reliability Area. The Parties will maintain communications, monitor progress, and coordinate regarding any previously identified or new interdependencies between the Parties’ Reliability Areas. Regarding the resynchronization of islanded areas that bridge boundaries between the Parties’ respective Reliability Areas, each Party shall coordinate and authorize the resynchroni- zation, if appropriate, and as consistent with then-current NERC EOP Standards.
Restoration Implementation. The final step is to implement restoration and monitor its effectiveness. Trustees work with the public to select and implement restoration projects. Examples of restoration include replanting wetlands, improving fishing access sites and re- storing salmon streams. The responsible party pays the costs of assessment and restoration and is often a key participant in implementing the restoration. Brownfields EPA’s Brownfields Program is designed to empower states, communities and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up and sustainably reuse brownfields. The program began as an administrative effort within the CERCLA Program and was then formalized under the Small Business Liability Relief and Xxxxx- xxxxxx Revitalization Act, (Public Law 107-118), enacted as amendments to CERCLA in 2002. EPA’s Brownfields Program provides financial and technical assistance for brownfields activities through an approach based on four main goals: protecting the environment, promoting partnerships, strengthening the marketplace and sustaining reuse. The law defines a Brownfields site as “real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.” The term includes abandoned, idled, or underused industrial or commercial facilities, agricultural and residential land, among other types of uses but does not apply to federal lands, NPL sites or land subject to enforcement actions or certain response actions under CERCLA. The Brownfields process is tailored to the specific end use of the property. Cleanup standards generally are determined according to the expected property use. Property owners may be able to obtain funding from public programs and private banks and institutions. Sampling plans are flex- ible and dynamic and allow for adjustments in the field. Generally EPA-funded Brownfields cleanups go through state cleanup programs. While the Brownfields process is flexible, it includes the following general steps:
Restoration Implementation. During the Preassessment Phase, the Trustees determined whether they had jurisdiction to pursue an NRDA for this incident. Since the injuries were expected to continue, and feasible restoration alternatives existed to address those injuries, the Trustees proceeded with the Restoration Planning Phase. Restoration planning also was necessary because injuries were expected to continue and result in interim losses of natural resources and services from the date of the incident until the date of recovery. In the Restoration Planning phase, the Trustees identified a reasonable range of restoration alternatives, evaluated and identified a preferred alternative, and developed the Draft DARP/EA (July 2005) presenting the preferred alternative to the public. The Trustees solicited public comment on the Draft DARP/EA (July 2005); however, no comments were received and the document has been finalized without significant change. Under the OPA regulations, the Final DARP/EA will be presented to the RP at the start of the Restoration Implementation Phase to implement or fund the Trustees' costs of implementing the plan, thus providing the opportunity for settlement of damage claims without litigation. Should the RP decline to settle the claim, the OPA authorizes Trustees to bring a civil action against the RP for damages, or to seek disbursement from the USCG’s Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. For this incident, however, the Trustees and RP worked cooperatively in the Preassessment and Restoration Planning Phases to assess injury to natural resources and services and identify restoration alternatives. The RP has agreed to implement the selected restoration alternative in this Final DARP/EA.
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