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Superfund and Natural Resource Damages (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Jan. 8, 2001
Report Number RS20772
Report Type Report
Authors Mark Reisch, Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Natural resource damages (NRD) has become an issue because of very large claims that have been filed, and because of the prospect of more of them. Key questions are: (1) what costs should be included and how they should be measured; (2) who should bear the burden of proof in NRD cases (the rebuttable presumption question); and (3) when NRD cases go to court, should review be based solely on the compiled administrative record, or should the parties be permitted to introduce new evidence?