In the latest episode of Digging Into Land Use Law,
Nossaman's Brian Ferrasci-O'Malley and
John O'Meara explore the Department of the
Interior's (Interior) proposed rule to change the way agencies
evaluate injuries to natural resources at contaminated sites and
how much restoration will cost.They examine Interior's new
"Type A" rule for streamlined natural resource damage
assessments, the first changes tothat rule in more than 27 years,
and discuss who will be affected by the proposed revisions.
Transcript: A New Way to Assess Natural Resource Damages
0:00:00.7 John O'Meara: For the first time
in a generation, federal environmental regulators could change the
way they evaluate contamination and determine costs for
restoration. What prompted this change, and who will be
affected?
