[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR11.60]

[Page 260]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
PART 11--NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart E--Type B Procedures
 
Sec. 11.60  Type B assessments--general.


    (a) Purpose. The purpose of the type B assessment is to provide 
alternative methodologies for conducting natural resource damage 
assessments in individual cases.
    (b) Steps in the type B assessment. The type B assessment consists 
of three phases: Sec. 11.61--Injury Determination; Sec. 11.70--
Quantification; and Sec. 11.80--Damage Determination, of this part.
    (c) Completion of type B assessment. After completion of the type B 
assessment, a Report of Assessment, as described in Sec. 11.90 of this 
part, shall be prepared. The Report of Assessment shall include the 
determinations made in each phase.
    (d) Type B assessment costs. (1) The following categories of 
reasonable and necessary costs may be incurred in the assessment phase 
of the damage assessment:
    (i) Sampling, testing, and evaluation costs for injury and pathway 
determination;
    (ii) Quantification costs (including baseline service determination 
and resource recoverability analysis);
    (iii) Restoration and Compensation Determination Plan development 
costs including:
    (A) Development of alternatives;
    (B) Evaluation of alternatives;
    (C) Potentially responsible party, agency, and public reviews;
    (D) Other such costs for activities authorized by Sec. 11.81 of this 
part;
    (iv) Cost estimating and valuation methodology calculation costs; 
and
    (v) Any other assessment costs authorized by Secs. 11.60-11.84 of 
this part.
    (2) The reasonable and necessary costs for these categories shall be 
limited to those costs incurred or anticipated by the authorized 
official for, and specifically allocable to, site-specific efforts taken 
in the assessment of damages for a natural resource for which the agency 
or Indian tribe is acting as trustee. Such costs shall be supported by 
appropriate records and documentation, and shall not reflect regular 
activities performed by the agency or the Indian tribe in management of 
the natural resource. Activities undertaken as part of the damage 
assessment phase shall be taken in a manner that is cost-effective, as 
that phrase is used in this part.

[51 FR 27725, Aug. 1, 1986, as amended at 53 FR 5175, Feb. 22, 1988; 59 
FR 14283, Mar. 25, 1994]