Natural Resource Injury Assessment & Damage Determination Consultant Services

The State of Missouri, Department of Natural Resources, is seeking a consultant to provide Natural Resource Injury Assessment, Damages Determination, Restoration Planning, and/or Risk Assessment, Analysis, or other Technical Review Consultant Services. The consultant will work with the state agency to assess damages to natural resources resulting from a discharge of oil or a release of a hazardous substance. The scope of work includes providing economic injury and assessments to determine the value in economic terms to restore, replace, rehabilitate, or acquire the equivalent of injured natural resources. Some key responsibilities of the consultant include: • Providing determination of natural resources injuries through a review of primary scientific research and site-specific data • Scaling natural resource injuries utilizing Habitat Equivalency Analysis, Resource Equivalency Analysis, or other accepted economic valuation methodology • Determining monetary natural resources damages from economic valuations • Preparing graphic presentations, including computerized graphics, based upon Geographic Information System (GIS) and other data • Performing mathematical and advanced statistical evaluation of primary scientific research to derive injury quantification metrics and ecological service losses • Fully characterizing the nature of the lost natural resource service flows • Collecting data on past and present use of the study area and substitute comparable sites • Reviewing economic and recreational literature to identify existing value estimates for use • Determining the need for primary research on compensable damages at the study area • Providing assistance to counsel in case preparation by identifying and providing expert economic witnesses and by developing economic testimony • Providing litigation support of economic methodologies, injury and damage assessment results, and restoration and scaling costs in court or other forms as necessary • Preparing interpretative reports from quantitative and qualitative economic data that will be used for analysis and decision-making purposes.