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Mission Statement
We protect public health and safety,
the environment, national security, and U.S. economic interests by ensuring
coordinated, integrated, efficient and effective response to minimize the
consequences of unintentional or intentional pollution incidents, maritime
contingencies, and incidents of National Significance within the First Coast
District, Federal Region's I and II and Atlantic Maritimes Region of the
U.S. / Canadian Transboundary zone.
The First Coast
Guard District's Preparedness and Response Branch coordinates
the development of international prevention and response agreements as
well as the implementation of environmental compliance, preparedness and
response policies for the National Response System.
Report Oil or Chemical Spills to the
National Response Center at 800-424-8802
General:
The Preparedness and Response Branch provides oversight of all oil
and hazardous material preparedness and spill response efforts in the
coastal zone of the First District, provides support to field units
coordinating and directing planning and response, and coordinates
response activities that cross the Captain of the Port (COTP) zone or
District boundaries.
Coming Events:
General Spill Response Information: If you want to learn more
about what we do, please see the
topical
summaries about oil spill prevention, planning, and response techniques,
published by the Region I Regional Response Team. Through external
links, additional detail on
spill preparedness
and response
as well as
information on past spills
is available.
Priority Branch Missions:
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We coordinate the efforts of two
Regional Response Teams, a
multi-agency planning team co-chaired by the Coast Guard and EPA
that considers issues of broader applicability than local Area
Committees.
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RRT1:
RRT
I is the federal component of the National Response System for the
states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut. RRT I is made up of representatives from
16 federal
departments and agencies and each of the States/Commonwealths.
It is co-chaired by the Manager of the Emergency Planning and
Response Branch from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)
regional office in Boston, MA, and the Chief of the Marine Safety
Division of the United States Coast Guard's First District. It meets
at least two times per year throughout the region. RRT I is a
planning, policy, and coordinating body which does not respond
directly to the scene of a spill or release. It provides assistance
as requested by the On-Scene Coordinator during an incident. For a
thorough description of both the National Response System and the
responsibilities of Regional Response Teams, please visit
the
National Response Team's website.
EPA also provides an
online overview.
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RRT2:
RRT II is
the federal component of the National Response System for the states
New York and New Jersey. RRT II is made up of representatives from
16 federal
departments and agencies and both States.
It is co-chaired by the Manager of the Response and prevention
Branch from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regional
office in Edison, NJ, and the Chief of the Marine Safety Division of
the United States Coast Guard's First District. It usually meets
twice per year throughout the region. RRT II is a planning, policy,
and coordinating body which does not respond directly to the scene
of a spill or release. It provides assistance as requested by the
On-Scene Coordinator during an incident.
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JRT:
We coordinate the efforts of the Canadian/U.S. Atlantic Joint
Response Team to foster international cooperation for spill
planning, preparedness, and response.
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ACPs:
We
support
Area Contingency Planning, a multi-agency spill response planning
process chaired by each of our five field units.
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ARTs:
We
support Alternative Response
Technology planning within the Area Committees. Because non-mechanical response
techniques such as dispersants or in situ burning are infrequently
used, involve Regional-level decisions, and more complex tradeoff
decisions, we provide a higher level of support in this area to our
field units.
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PREP:
We help field units ensure the adequacy and continued improvement of
spill response plans by supporting exercises under the
Preparedness for Response Exercise Program and acting as
exercise director for external PREP exercises. Transboundary
response plans with Canada are also tested regularly. Additional
information is available on recent and upcoming PREP drills in the
First District.
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VOSS:
We train, deploy, and house two Vessel of Opportunity Skimming Systems, and provide similar
support for the Spilled Oil Recovery Systems (SORS) designed for and
delivered with the new Coast Guard buoy tenders Willow and Juniper.
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In situ
Burning Agreements
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Dispersant Decision Agreements and
Dispersant Planning Mandate
Preparedness and Response Links
File Formats used in
First District Response Site:
We attempt to
provide all our documents in HTML so they may be viewed directly in
your browser. However, some files are not amenable to easy
conversion to HTML, and are therefore provided in one of
several file formats. Most of the formats we utilize have free
viewers available through this site.
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