Availability of the Report of Injury Assessment and Injury Determination: Coeur d'Alene Basin Natural Resource Damage Assessment

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The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Coeur d'Alene Tribe (collectively, the Trustees) have undertaken a natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) to assess injuries resulting from releases of hazardous substances from mining and mineral processing operations in the Coeur d'Alene River basin, Idaho. Section 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) [42 U.S.C. 9607], section 311 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act [33 U.S.C. 1321], and the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan [40 CFR part 300] provide authority to the conduct the NRDA. The Trustees evaluated injuries to natural resources in the Coeur d'Alene River basin resulting from releases of mining-related hazardous substances and summarized their findings in the Report of Injury Assessment and Injury Determination: Coeur d'Alene Basin Natural Resource Damage Assessment (Report). Trustees used the Coeur d'Alene Basin Natural Resource Damage Assessment Plan, Injury Determination-- Phase I, released in October 1993, and the Coeur d'Alene Basin Natural Resource Damage Assessment Plan, Phase II--Injury Quan