Administrative Record

• REFERENCE LIBRARY (LAWS, REGULATIONS, LITERATURE)
• TRUSTEE COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT (15 C.F.R. § 990.14)
• PRE-ASSESSMENT PHASE (§§ 990.40 – 990.45)
• RESTORATION PLANNING (§§ 990.50 -- 990.56)
• NRDA data that has been fully validated and released to the public is available at
• PUBLIC OUTREACH AND INVOLVEMENT (§ 990.14(d))
• COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE AUTHORITIES (§§ 990.23 -- 990.24)
• RESTORATION IMPLEMENTATION
• OTHER REFERENCES

I. REFERENCE LIBRARY (LAWS, REGULATIONS, LITERATURE)

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II. TRUSTEE COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT (15 C.F.R. § 990.14)

* Unless otherwise noted, all parenthetical references are citations to the Oil Pollution Act NRDA regulations.

A. Coordination Among Trustees (§ 990.14(a))

1. Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Resulting From the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit and the Subsea Macondo Well (Nov. and Dec., 2010; June, 2011).
2. Mississippi Designated Natural Resource Trustee Officials (Oct. 17, 2011).

B. Trustee Coordination with Response Activities (§ 990.14(b))

1. Letter from U.S. Coast Guard to BP Exploration and Production, Inc., Designating BP as a Responsible Party Under OPA (Apr. 28, 2010).
2. Letter from U.S. Coast Guard to Transocean Holdings, Inc., Designating Transocean as a Responsible Party Under OPA (Apr. 28, 2010).

C. Trustee Coordination with Responsible Parties (§ 990.14(c))

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III. PRE-ASSESSMENT PHASE (§§ 990.40 – 990.45)

A. Determination of Jurisdiction (§ 990.41)

1. Notice of Intent to Conduct Restoration Planning and Determination of Jurisdiction.
2. Notice of Intent to Conduct Restoration Planning and Determination of Jurisdiction, 75 Fed. Reg. 60,800 (Oct. 1, 2010).
3. Correspondence with Responsible Parties concerning Trustees' Notice of Intent to Conduct Restoration Planning and Invitation to Participate in the Natural Resource Damage Assessment.

B. Pre-assessment (§ 990.43)

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  1. Birds
     • Work Plan for Secretive Marsh Bird Mortality (June 7, 2010).
     • Work Plan for Aerial Surveys and Photographic Census for Birds in the Vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon (MSC 252) Oil Spill Bird Study #2 (June 7, 2010).
     • Work Plan for Estimating Oiling Rates among Pelagic Birds using Ship Based Surveys (July 16, 2010).
     • Work Plan for Estimating Oiling and Mortality of Breeding Colonial Waterbirds (July 19, 2010).
     • Work Plan for Determining Injury to the Piping Plover (August 4, 2010).
     • Pre-Assessment Work Plan for Determining Injury to Bald Eagles from the Deepwater Horizon (MC-252) Oil Spill (Bird Study #9, Part 2)(Dec. 30, 2010).
     • Amendment to Work Plan for Estimating Oiling and Mortality of Breeding Colonial Waterbirds from the Deepwater Horizon (MC 252) Oil Spill (Bird Study # 4) (May 12, 2011).
     • Amendment 2 to Work Plan for Estimating Oiling and Mortality of Breeding Colonial Waterbirds From the Deepwater Horizon (MC 252) oil Spill (Bird Study #4) (July 29, 2011).
  2. Coral
     • Mississippi Canyon252.pdf
  3. Fish
     • Addendum
     • Holding Time Study For Environmental Samples Laboratory Analysis Plan (Aug. 18, 2011)
     • Investigative Plan for Fish and Invertebrate Kills in the Northern Gulf (Dec. 2, 2010)
     • MC 252 Spill Oyster Sampling Plan Phase I of High Priority Sites (July 31, 2010)
     • MC 252 Spill Oyster Sampling Plan Phase I of High Priority Sites Amendment (Feb. 11, 2011)
     • MC 252 Spill Oyster Sampling Transition Plan (Feb. 11, 2011)
     • NRDA 10 Meter MOCNESS summer 2011 Plankton Sampling Cruise Plan (Aug. 8, 2011)
     • NRDA Late Summer 2011 Small Pelagics Sampling Plan (Oct. 8, 2011)
     • Plan for Post Release Monitoring and Tracking of Injured, Stranded, or Entrapped and Released Cetaceans in Impact Area (Aug. 31, 2010)
     • Preassessment to Determine Potential Exposure and Injuries of Threatened Gulf Sturgeon
     • Procedure for Obtaining NRDA Submerged Oil Samples from the Nearshore Environment (Aug. 16 2010)
     • Collection Plan for LA and MS Estuarine Dolphine Stocks and Addendum (June 9, 2010)
     • Spring 2011 Oyster Recruitment Sampling Plan (June 22, 2011)
     • Spring 2011 Oyster Recruitment Sampling Plan Amendment 1 (Sept. 6, 2011)
     • Spring 2011 Oyster Recruitment Sampling Plan Amendment 2 (Sept. 23, 2011)
  4. Mammals
     • Addendum to Aerial Surveys for Marine Mammals and Turtles (Aug. 8, 2010)
     • Addendum To Plan Regarding Population Size and Spatial Distribution of Marine Mammals & Turtles (Aug. 2011)
     • Addendum to PreAssessment Plan For Manatees Outside of Florida (Aug. 30, 2010)
     • Aerial Surveys for Marine Mammals and Turtles (May 5, 2010)
     • Assessing Population Size & Spatial Distribution of Marine Mammals & Sea Turtles (Jan. 23, 2012)
     • PreAssessment and Data Collection Plan Manatees out of FL Waters (June 9, 2010)
     • Proposed Data Collection Plan for LA and MS Estuarine Dolphine Stocks and Addendum (June 9, 2010)
     • Proposed Data Collection Plan To Assess Injury To Florida Manatees (June 9, 2011)
     • Second Addendum to Data Collection Plan to Assess Injury to Estuarine Dolphine Stocks (Nov. 1 2010)
     • Work Plan for Collection of Data to Determine Impacts on Endangered & Protected Marine Mammals (June 14, 2010)
  5. Sea Turtles
  • • Preassessment plan to determine potential exposure and injuries of nesting and hatchling loggerhead sea turtles (August 2, 2010)
  1. Shoreline
  • • DRAFT Marsh Edge/Sandy Shoreline Biota Plan
    • Technical specifications and scope for aerial imagery acquisition (Nov. 11, 2010).pdf
  1. Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
  • Work plan for assessing potential impacts to fresh and brackish water (Jan. 20, 2011).pdf
  • Submerged aquatic vegetation tier 1 pre-assessment plan (Sept. 28, 2010).pdf
  1. Water Column

• Plan for adaptive water column NOAA-NRDA sampling (PAWNNS) cruise plan-Hois Davis 1 (Aug. 11, 2010).pdf
• NRDA 10-meter MOCNESS winter 2011 plankton sampling cruise plan (Jan. 24, 2011)
• Epipelagic plankton bongo & neuston sampling cruise plan (July 1, 2011).pdf
• Plan for adaptive water column NOAA-NRDA sampling (PAWNNS) cruise plan-American Diver 1 (July 27, 2010).pdf
• Field plan for water-column profiling to measure dissolved-phase aromatic hydrocarbons and free oil droplets as a function of depth and location relative to the subsurface oil release (May 7, 2010).pdf
• NRDA plan for samples of opportunity in support of the water column injury (May 13, 2010).pdf
• NRDA SEAMAP plankton sampling plan & fall 2010 cruise plan (Nov. 15, 2010).pdf
• NRDA plankton sampling plan & fall 2010 cruise plan-Walton Smith 1 (Nov. 15, 2010).pdf
• NRDA plankton sampling plan & fall 2010 cruise plan-Walton Smith 3 (Nov. 15, 2010).pdf
• ADCP-measured currents monitoring plan deepwater oil spill (DWHOS) (May 26, 2010).pdf
• NRDA cruise 4-Jack Fitz 3 water sampling plan deepwater horizon oil spill (DWHOS) (June 11, 2010).pdf
• NRDA 1-meter MOCNESS winter 2011 plankton sampling cruise plan (Jan. 10, 2010).pdf
• Submerged oil characterization across multiple habitats for assessments of persistent exposures in nearshore sediments (June 23, 2011).pdf
• NRDA winter 2011 plankton imaging sampling cruise plan (Jan. 12, 2011).pdf
• Plan for adaptive water column NOAA-NRDA sampling (PAWNNS) cruise plan-American Diver 1 and Ocean Veritas 9 (July 17, 2010).pdf
• Proposal to extend NRDA cruise "water-column profiling to measure dissolved aromatic hydrocarbons and free oil droplets as a function of depth and location relative to the subsurface oil release." (May 10, 2010).pdf
• Submerged oil reconnaissance plan deep horizon oil spill (DWHOS) (June 5, 2010).pdf
• NRDA plankton sampling plan & fall 2010 cruise plan-Specialty Diver 1 (Nov. 15, 2010).pdf
• NRDA plankton sampling plan & fall 2010 cruise plan-Walton Smith 2 (Nov. 15, 2010).pdf
• Cruise 2: surface water sampling plan deep water horizon oil spill (DWHOS) (May 21, 2010).pdf
• Cruise 2: surface water sampling plan deep water horizon oil spill (DWHOS) amended (May 29, 2010).pdf

                           C. Notice of Intent to Conduct Restoration Planning (§ 990.44)

•  Presentation to responsible party of interim, partial claim for NRDA costs for the deepwater horizon oil spill (April 25, 2011).pdf
• BP advance funding letter (May 28, 2010).pdf
• BP response to MOEX anadarko letter (Nov. 22, 2010).pdf
• Bullock response to uv fluorescence method (May 13, 2011).pdf
• U.S. department of interior interim, partial claim for assessment costs (April 20, 2010).pdf

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• IV. RESTORATION PLANNING (§§ 990.50 -- 990.56)
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  A. Injury Assessment (§ 990.51)
• 1. Birds
  2. Fish
  3. Mammals
  4. Sea Turtles
  5. Shoreline
  6. Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
  7. Water Column
  8. Coral
  B. DOI Interim, Partial Claim for Natural Resource Damage Assessment Costs (33 U.S.C.§ 2713)
• C. Developing and Evaluating Restoration Alternatives (§ 990.53)
  1. 1. Emergency Restoration
     2. Restoration
• D. NRDA data that has been fully validated and released to the public is available at:
  1. http://www.noaa.gov/sciencemissions/bpoilspill.html

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• V. PUBLIC OUTREACH AND INVOLVEMENT (§ 990.14(d))

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• VI. COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE AUTHORITIES (§§ 990.23 -- 990.24)

1. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq.)
2. Endangered Species Act (ESA) (16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.)

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VII. RESTORATION IMPLEMENTATION

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VIII. OTHER REFERENCES

1. Who are natural resource trustees? (National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan, 40 C.F.R. Part 300, Subpart G)
   1. Notice of Intent to Begin Restoration Scoping and Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, 76 Fed. Reg. 9327 (Feb.17, 2011).
   2. NOAA Memorandum Documenting Categorical Exclusion under NEPA for NRDA Activities (July, 2011).
2. Websites for co-trustees:
   1. NOAA:  http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov