Division 1.3.1

The reasonable remedial options should be evaluated, using best available technologies, based on the following criteria:

• The effect of each option on public health and safety,

• The cost of implementing the option,

• The likelihood of success of each option,

• The extent to which each option will prevent future damage, and avoid collateral damage as a result of implementing the option,

• The extent to which each option benefits to each component of the natural resource and/or service,

• The extent to which each option takes account of relevant social, economic and cultural concerns and other relevant factors specific to the locality,

• The length of time it will take for the restoration of the environmental damage to be effective,

• The extent to which each option achieves the restoration of site of the environmental damage,

• The geographical linkage to the damaged site.