![]() Now that the Consent Decree has been finalized, the Trustees can continue the important work of restoring spill-injured natural resources and the services they provide. On March 22, 2016, the Trustees entered a Record of Decision related to this plan. In other, related agreements, BP also will pay up to another $1 billion to resolve similar claims the company faces from various local governments in the Gulf region.įinal Damage Assessment and Restoration PlanĬonsistent with the Consent Decree, on February 19, 2016, a Trustee Council made up of four federal agencies and trustees from all five Gulf States issued a Final Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement detailing a specific proposed plan to fund and implement restoration projects across the Gulf region. Under the economic damages settlement noted above, BP will pay $4.9 billion to the Gulf States in a parallel settlement that resolves their economic damage claims arising from this incident. The consent decree, the motion to enter, and other informational documents are attached below This settlement includes both the largest civil penalty ever paid by any defendant under any environmental statute, and the largest recovery of damages for injuries to natural resources. Under the Consent Decree BP will pay a Clean Water Act civil penalty of $5.5 billion (plus interest), $8.1 billion in natural resource damages (this includes $1 billion BP already committed to pay for early restoration), up to an additional $700 million (some of which is in the form of accrued interest) for adaptive management or to address injuries to natural resources that are presently unknown but may come to light in the future, and $600 million for other claims, including claims under the False Claims Act, royalties, and reimbursement of natural resource damage assessment costs and other expenses due to this incident. Taken together this resolution of civil claims is worth more than $20 billion and is the largest settlement with a single entity in the history of federal law enforcement. government’s civil penalty claims under the Clean Water Act, the governments’ claims for natural resources damage claims under the Oil Pollution Act, and also implements a related settlement of economic damage claims of the Gulf States and local governments. This historic settlement resolves the U.S. ![]() ![]() See Analysis environments and Spatial Analyst for additional details on the geoprocessing environments that apply to this tool.On April 4, 2016, a federal court in New Orleans entered a consent decree resolving civil claims against BP arising from the ApMacondo well blowout and the massive oil spill that followed in the Gulf of Mexico. An example of when an input raster may be resampled is when the output coordinate system, extent, or cell size is different from that of the input. When the input raster needs to be resampled, the bilinear technique will be used. When the input observer features contain multiple observers, the output value is the minimum of the AGL values from all of the individual observers. ![]() Each cell on the AGL output raster records the minimum height that needs to be added to that cell to make it visible by at least one observer. If the point lies above the local horizon, it is considered visible.Īn optional above ground level (AGL) output raster is provided by the tool. The local horizon is computed by considering the intervening terrain between the point of observation and the current cell center. The visibility of each cell center is determined by comparing the altitude angle to the cell center with the altitude angle to the local horizon. ![]() If the input raster contains undesirable noise caused by sampling errors, you can smooth the raster with a low-pass filter, such as the Mean option of Focal Statistics, before running this tool. Use the full-resolution raster when the final results are ready to be generated. For preliminary studies, you can use a coarser cell size to reduce the number of cells in the input. The processing time is dependent on the resolution. Determining observer points is a computer-intensive process. ![]()
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