Abstract
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on 19 February that it will develop a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) as the next step in its assessment of impacts from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico. The PEIS is part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA), the legal process to determine the type and extent of environmental restoration needed to compensate the public for the harm caused to natural resources by the oil spill. The restoration would be paid for by BP and other parties deemed responsible for the oil spill. Public meetings will be held in the affected states to begin the PEIS process. NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco stated at a press conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that this “heralds the beginning of a formal public process.”
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