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U. S. COAST GUARD Deepwater Horizon Panel On-Scene Coordinator’s Viewpoint
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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U. S. COAST GUARD Primary Safety Concerns to Public Seafood Safety Dispersants Beach Contamination (i.e. air monitoring and SSRB exposure) Mental Health
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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
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U. S. COAST GUARD Thank You
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