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1 U. S. COAST GUARD Deepwater Horizon Panel On-Scene Coordinator’s Viewpoint

2 U. S. COAST GUARD Background Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Dynamically positioned, semi-submersible drilling unit located 45 miles SE of Venice, LA Day 1-April 20 th D8 Command Centers notified of fire/explosion on MODU DWH approx 10:00 pm Initiated SAR efforts Firefighting efforts coordinated by MODU IAW Firefighting Plan Established incident command post

3 U. S. COAST GUARD  5 States Effected  Oil Containment Boom/Skimmers ◦ 3.1 million ft ◦ 835 skimmers ◦ How much is enough?  45 Miles Offshore  Area of the spill  Depth: 5000 FT  Overlapping Issues ◦ Oil containment and recovery ◦ Hurricane Season ◦ Wildlife ◦ Fishery Management ◦ Tourism  Subsea Oil Monitoring Plan Sheer Scope and Complexity of the Spill

4 U. S. COAST GUARD Unified Area Command (UAC) USCG – RADM Watson BOEM – L. Herbst BP – Doug Suttles State of LA – Dwight Bradshaw State of FL – M. Drew (Remote) TOI – Larry McMahan State of AL − J. Hagood (Remote) MS –Larry Murphree (Remote) Deputy Area Commander USCG – RDML Nash BP – Bob Fryar USCG – CAPT Maguire Incident: Deepwater Horizon Period 83: 12 July 0600 - 1800 Unified Incident Command (Galveston, TX) Unified Incident Command (Mobile, AL) 2 Key Agency Representatives DOI − Lori Faeth DOC − TBD EPA – Sam Coleman NIC NRT RRT National Policy/Legal/Environmental/Economic Issues Alignment & Consultation Unified Incident Command (Houma, LA)

5 U. S. COAST GUARD Safety of Responders On-Shore Zone In-shore zone: Inland Waters Near-shore zone: Baseline-3nm Offshore zone: 3nm- within 5nm of source Well site: 5nm circle around source Well Site Subsea

6 U. S. COAST GUARD Primary Safety Concerns to Public Seafood Safety Dispersants Beach Contamination (i.e. air monitoring and SSRB exposure) Mental Health

7 U. S. COAST GUARD  Reaching the end points of response, incremental work, done by integrated shoreline cleanup assessment teams.  Capture Lessons Learned and Identify potential Areas for improvement.  Review the National Contingency Plan and National Response Framework to identify National-level issues to enhance public’s expectation for a coordinated, “whole of government” response to Incidents of National Significance  Transition from response to recovery Moving Forward

8 U. S. COAST GUARD Thank You


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