Prince William Sound Tanker C-plan Review, 2007

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The tanker C-plan (consisting of the Core Plan and SERVS Technical Manual) was approved in November 2007. The approval contained several conditions including the following: personnel verification; that a field exercise be conducted focusing on aerial support for dispersant monitoring; additional information on Tier III Fishing Vessel Program; and continuation of the Near Shore Task Force 5 approved in the 2002 tanker C-plan.

PWSRCAC has several issues outstanding that it felt were not satisfactorily addressed in the approved plan. These issues include operating in darkness; drills conducted around weather buoys and in more marginal weather; rewriting the scenario to show oil moving outside of Prince William Sound; Best Available Technology (BAT) for escorts; analysis of aircraft per task; decontamination; and BAT for response equipment. The Response Planning Group (RPG) has committed to participation on a steering committee to address outstanding issues. The council anticipates continuous improvement to the tanker C-plan as a result of this steering committee.

 

PWSRCAC's Final Comments on Tanker C-plan (Sept. 21, 2007)
> Cover letter (pdf/67KB)
> Final Comments (pdf/252KB)
> Additional Final Comments, Oct. 15, 2007 (pdf/257KB)

Prince William Sound Tanker Contingency Plan (pdf/8.9MB)

SERVS Technical Manual (pdf/11.5MB)

ADEC's letter to the Response Planning Group (pdf/391KB)

PWSRCAC RFAIs and supporting documents:

Cover Letter to ADEC re: RFAIs (pdf/144KB)

RFAI: PWSRCAC's RFAI: 2007 Prince William Sound Tanker Oil Discharge Prevention and Contingency Plan (pdf/273KB)

RFAI: Alaska Tanker Company’s Integrated Vessel Response Plan (pdf/293KB)

RFAI: PWSRCAC's RFAI: ConocoPhillips, ConocoPhillips Marine, Polar Tankers, Inc. Vessel Response Plan (VRP) & Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (SOPEP) (pdf/292KB)

RFAI: SeaRiver Maritime, Inc. Emergency Response Plan (pdf/290KB)

RFAI: PWSRCAC's RFAI: Tesoro Alaska Company Prince William Sound Tanker Vessel Operations Oil Discharge Prevention and Contingency Plan (pdf/277KB)

A Legal Analysis of The Requirement of “Best Available Technology” (As 46.04.030(E)) as Applied to Tug Escort Vessels in the 2007 Prince William Sound Tanker Oil Discharge Prevention and Contingency Plan. 2007. By Joseph N. Levesque, Esq., WALKER & LEVESQUE, LLC (pdf/196KB)

Review of Out-of-Region Equipment Resources Listed by Prince William Sound Planholders. 2007. By Erich R. Gundlach, Ph.D., E-Tech International Inc. (pdf/3.6MB)

Proposed Approach to Downstream Planning for Nearshore Response and Sensitive Areas Protection Outside Prince William Sound (pdf/1.5MB). This final report includes a detailed scenario for a spill originating in Prince William Sound but traveling outside of it and along the lower Kenai Peninsula towards Cook Inlet and Kodiak. The council provided it as a proposed revision to the Cook Inlet, Kodiak, and Prince William Sound Subarea Contingency Plans.

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