The 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act resulted in the US Department of Interior defining the calculation of damages to a valued resource as
A) the lost value of the resource.
B) the value of restoring the resource.
C) the value of replacing the resource with another resource.
D) the lesser of the lost value of the resource or the value of restoring the resource.

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The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act defines damages as the lesser of the lost value of the resource or the value of restoring the resource. This ensures that the costs of restoration are not excessive and that damages are equitable.

The 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act Resulted