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SUMMARY:Development of Offshore Ecological Resources at Risk Response Info
 rmation for Area Contingency Plans
DESCRIPTION:Paper\n\nLauren Szathmary, Christine Boring, Mark White, Jenni
 fer Weaver, and Jacqueline Michel (Research Planning, Inc.) and Gabrielle 
 McGrath (RPS Group, Inc.)\n\nThe evaluation and modification of oil spill 
 response plans after an emergency is critical to advance spill preparednes
 s. Prior to 2010, Area Contingency Plans (ACPs) focused on the nearshore r
 esponse to oil spills. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf o
 f Mexico, the Incident Specific Preparedness Review conducted on the incid
 ent in 2011 determined that ACPs did not contain offshore Worst Case Disch
 arge scenarios, that the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (B
 SEE) should participate in Area Committees to conduct offshore response pl
 anning, and that ACPs were inadequate regarding offshore Environmentally S
 ensitive Areas. In 2018, BSEE launched a project to develop offshore respo
 nse information for government contingency plans. As part of this project,
  we created offshore Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) atlases and nar
 rative profiles of taxa present with applicable Best Management Practices 
 for each taxon for the Gulf of Mexico, two areas around Alaska (Cook Inlet
 /Gulf of Alaska and the Arctic), and off southern California. The offshore
  ESI atlases are built on the NOAA national standard format and database s
 tructure, and they present spatial and temporal distribution of ecological
  resources at risk in waters from Submerged Land Act boundaries to the U.S
 . Exclusive Economic Zone. Spatial and temporal distribution data for offs
 hore ecological resources were collected through extensive correspondence 
 and data sharing with federal and academic resource experts for each of th
 e following elements: birds, herpetofauna, marine mammals, fish, invertebr
 ates, benthic (and floating) resources. The data sources used for many of 
 these taxa are the results of leading-edge models derived from extensive s
 urvey datasets that have only recently become available. All datasets used
  were compiled and interpreted to be presented in the response-relevant ES
 I data standard. Narrative profiles including distribution maps and taxon-
 specific spill response information were created as reference materials fo
 r taxa mapped in the ESI atlases.\n\nTag: Preparedness\n\nSession Chair: J
 ereme Altendorf (US Coast Guard, Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security St
 udies)
URL:https://iosc2024.conference-program.com/presentation/?id=PAPER218&sess
 =sess162
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