Final Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment for Lower Duwamish Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration: Vigor Shipyards Habitat Projects, Seattle King County, Washington

The Vigor Shipyards Habitat Projects are expected to restore, replace or acquire the equivalent of natural resources injured and services lost due to releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil from Vigor’s Harbor Island facility in the LDR. Exxon Mobil Corporation (“Exxon”) will also satisfy its natural resource damages liability for its historic activities at the Vigor facility on Harbor Island with ecological benefits created by the Shipyards Projects. The restoration analyzed by the Trustees in the Final RP/EA has been proposed by Vigor and Exxon to resolve their liability in a consent decree filed with the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The proposed restoration will not result in significant impacts, and is expected to provide mainly beneficial impacts to natural resources and services that were injured.