The Observer, May 2005

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Council is recertified by Coast Guard

The citizens’ council has been recertified by the U.S. Coast Guard under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.

In a March 2 letter announcing the annual recertification, Rear Admiral James C. Olson, commander of the Coast Guard’s District 17 in Juneau, noted the many favorable comments received on the council’s application.

The commenters, Olson wrote, consistently cited the council’s “broad representation of the respective community’s interests, appropriate actions to keep the public informed, improvements to both spill response preparation and spill prevention and oil industry monitoring efforts that combat complacency – as intended by the Act.”