1. Welcome!
December 1, 2010

2. Welcome and Opening Comments
Captain Verne Gifford
Commanding Officer
USCG Sector SE New England

3. Agenda Introductions Agency Reports
Providence Boom Deployment Exercise
USCG Sector SENE Response Trailers Update
Industry-led PREP Exercise
Draft Area Contingency Plan Update
Deepwater Horizon Response Update
2010 Vigilant Hope Exercise – After Action Report
Open Action Items

4. Introductions
Name
Organization
Job Title

5. Action Items & Status
NOAA SSC to form a workgroup for In Situ Burning & Dispersant Pre-Authorization review.
MADEP to develop management protocols in the event of a spill to ensure:
deployment of boom systems in MADEP Pollution Response Trailers is integrated in UC decision making process
effective use and compensation issues are institutionalized in our ACP.
STATUS: Draft Completed

6. Agency Reports RI Dept of Environmental Management
MA Dept of Environmental Protection
USCG First District
US Department of the Interior
Other comments or updates

7. Emergency Response Administrator
RI DEM
Mr. James Ball
Emergency Response Administrator

8. Oil Spill Prevention & Response Program
MA DEP
Mr. Rich Packard
Oil Spill Prevention & Response Program

9. USCG First District Mr. Scott Lundgren Incident Management Branch
Environmental Response & Preparedness

10. US DOI Mr. Andrew Raddant Regional Environmental Officer
Office of Environmental Policy & Compliance

11. Other Updates or Comments?

12. Providence Fire Dept Boom Deployment Exercise
December 2, 2010
Chief Michael Dillon
Asst Chief, Providence FD

13. USCG Sector SENE Response Trailers
USCG Pollution Response Equipment Trailer staged in Point Judith, RI unserviceable
USCG will initiate process to assess need for equipment in current location, need for equipment to be mobile, history of spills in area, existing OSRO resources, etc.
Decision on disposition of trailer and equipment will be fully vetted through AC

14. Industry-led PREP Exercise
June 2011
Mr. Ron Pigeon
USCG Sector SE New England

15. USCG Sector SE New England
Area Contingency Plan
Update on 2010 ACP
Mr. Ron Pigeon
USCG Sector SE New England

16. BREAK

17. Deepwater Horizon Response
Update on USCG Sector SENE Impact

18. Deepwater Horizon - Reports & Lessons
Clean Gulf Papers:
username: paper, password: archive
Response Reports:
Presidential Commission working papers (
National Response System Reports:
National Incident Commander – Search Deepwater on
National Response Team -- pending
Federal On-Scene Coordinator – pending
BP Report… Search: Deepwater Horizon Containment and Response: Harnessing Capabilities and Lessons Learned
Joint Industry Task Force Report… Search: Joint Industry Oil Spill Preparedness And Response Task Force
Prevention Reports:
Joint Investigation Team (USCG & BOEM) (
National Academy of Engineering ( Search Analysis of the Causes of the Deepwater Disaster

19. Exercise Vigilant Hope 2010
May 5, 2010
After Action Report
Ms. Erin Lambie
USCG Sector SE New England

20. Review of Decisions Made and New Action Items
LT Amber Ward

21. Future Events
MA Oil Spill Act Advisory Committee – Dec 14, 2010 (Fall River, MA)
Tri-State (CT-RI-MA) FSE: IAP Workshop – Jan 5, 2010 (Providence, RI)
ME/NH AC Seminar – Feb 8-9, 2011 (Tentative) (Portsmouth, NH)
RRT Region I Meeting – Mar 15-16, 2011 (Chelmsford, MA – Tentative)
EPA Tabletop Exercise – Mar/Apr 2011 (Tentative) (Providence, RI)
International Oil Spill Conference, May 23-26, 2011 (Portland, OR)
PREP Industry Led FSE – June 2011 (Tentative)
Tri-State Full Scale Exercise – Aug 11, 2011 (Tentative)
PREP/AMSTEP TTX – Sep 2012 (Tentative)

22. Next Meetings March 3, 2011 (Tentative) June 2, 2011 (Tentative)
September 1, 2011 (Tentative)

23. Closing Comments
CAPT Verne Gifford