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Geographic Response Plans (GRP) 2009 Updating the Grays Harbor GRP

Geographic Response Plans (GRP) 2009 Updating the Grays Harbor GRP. Harry Chichester Washington State Department of Ecology. Purpose. Help you understand GRPs What they are How they are used What criteria is used in their development Ask for your help in the update effort

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Geographic Response Plans (GRP) 2009 Updating the Grays Harbor GRP

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  1. Geographic Response Plans (GRP) 2009Updating the Grays Harbor GRP Harry Chichester Washington State Department of Ecology

  2. Purpose • Help you understand GRPs • What they are • How they are used • What criteria is used in their development • Ask for your help in the update effort • Types of information that are helpful • Ways to get useful information to us • Overview of how the update effort works • Timeline: Grays Harbor GRP Workshop & Data Collection begins on August 25, 2009 • Comment period ends September 24, 2009 • Site visits Fall 2009

  3. What are GRPs? • A collection of strategies for a given geographic area • Used during the initial phase of a spill • They are not ‘everything’ that could or would be done • Not dependent on ‘real-time’ information - but ‘real-time’ information can result in modification • Minimize spill impact on habitat or areas of high regional significance • Deflect, collect, ‘exclude’ spilled oil

  4. Limitations – “oil boom is not a wall” • Factors that influence the effectiveness of oil containment boom: • Spilled material • Currents • Winds • Tides • River Speed

  5. Types of Information in a GRP (Chapter 4) > Maps > Priority Tables > Strategy Matrices

  6. Types of Information in a GRP “Two Pagers”

  7. How are GRPs developed? • Stakeholders • Trustee Agencies – in Washington • development of marine GRPs by ECY & USCG • freshwater GRPs by ECY & EPA • Tribes • Other interested parties • Some Criteria for developing GRPs • Habitat of high regional significance • Likelihood of spill impacting habitat • Could a strategy minimize impact? • Could the strategy be ‘done’

  8. Sources of Information • Resource Agency Staff • U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) • U. S. Coast Guard (USCG) • U. S. Fish & Wildlife (USFWS) • Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) • Washington Department of Health (DOH) • Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) • Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission (Parks) • Tribes • Geographic Information System (GIS) Data Layers • Local Knowledge

  9. Information Ecology Has GIS Data Sources • DNR – Beach Data • WDFW – Priority Species • Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation • Ecology GIS – on web • WUTC- Pipelines

  10. How will the Grays Harbor GRP be updated? • Collect ‘new’ information • Visit sites to determine • Regional significance of resource • Likelihood of spill impacting habitat (ESI, TAPS etc.) • Could a strategy minimize impact • Could a strategy be done • As appropriate, develop new strategies • As appropriate, adjust priority tables

  11. How to help the GRP update effort… • Useful information: • Specific location • Site access • Resource of concern • Lessons learned in deployment of strategies since last update • Information that’s not too useful… • Statements like – protect ‘everything’ • GIS layers we already have • Other data we already have

  12. Does public feedback work?Will my effort result in changes to GRPs? • Yes it does and here are two examples: • A curator suggested shutting down his zoo’s salt-water intake system rather than setting up boom. The suggestion was accepted and is now the GRP strategy for that location. • Comments by the City of Tacoma and Citizens for a Healthy Bay helped generate new strategies that addressed several of the area’s restoration sites

  13. How to Get Information to Us • Getting the information to us: • Email – hchi461@ecy.wa.gov & thas461@ecy.wa.gov • NW Contingency Plan Website - http://www.rrt10nwac.com/nwacp_document.htm • ‘Snail mail’ –Todd Hass, c/o Ecology HQ Spills, PO Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600 • More information on the Grays Harbor GRP update process can be found on our website: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/preparedness/GRP/GraysHarbor/GraysHarbor.html

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