The Observer, December 2003

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Council compiling public database on oil-spill equipment

The citizens’ council is inviting manufacturers and vendors of crude oil spill prevention and response equipment to submit information for an electronic database of best available technology.

The database will be made available to organizations such as Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., tanker companies and oil-spill response cooperatives for use in performing best available technology reviews. These reviews are required by Alaska law whenever an oil spill contingency plan is filed or renewed.

The council will put the database on its web site so that it will be accessible to contingency planholders, oil-spill responders, the state of Alaska, and anyone else interested.

Information for the database must be submitted in a specific format described in Alaska state law. The deadline is Feb. 29, 2003. For instructions, visit the council web site at: www.pwsrcac.org/BAT4all.html

For further information, contact Dan Gilson, Project Manager, at the Valdez office address on the back page of the Observer. Or call him at 907-834-5040 or email him at gilson@pwsrcac.org.