Final Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment for Recreational Uses: 2002 M/V EVERREACH Oil Spill, Charleston South Carolina

The purpose of the proposed action is to select a restoration project that compensates the public for the recreational losses sustained from the M/V EVERREACH oil spill in Charleston Harbor, in accordance with all applicable legal requirements. The restoration project must be effective in achieving goals for restoring, replacing, or acquiring the equivalent of natural resource services (i.e., recreational uses) lost as a result of the spill consistent with the requirement of OPA. The action is needed because there were significant losses of the public’s natural resources— including recreational uses—from the oil spill. The Natural Resource Trustees have a statutory duty to engage in restoration planning and assessment of natural resource damages to compensate the public for injury to, and loss of, services from natural resources.