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Department of Ecology News Release - April 7, 2008
08-083
OLYMPIA - The public is invited to help the state Department of Ecology (Ecology) and U.S. Coast Guard (Coast Guard) update and improve site-specific oil-spill response strategies used for the San Juan Islands, called geographic response plans.
Ecology and the Coast Guard will hold two workshops this week - one in Friday Harbor and one in Eastsound - where citizens, resource managers, spill response contractors and oil-industry representatives can help identify any new information that might make the strategies more effective.
Geographic response plans are oil-spill response strategies tailored to reduce the effects of oil spills to sensitive areas along beaches, shores, or waterways.
The first workshop will be held from noon to 2 p.m. on Friday, April 11, at the Mullis Community Senior Center, 589 Nash St., Friday Harbor.
The second workshop will be conducted from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 11, at the Orcas Island Fire Department, 45 Lavender Lane, Eastsound.
The third workshop will be held from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 12 at the Mullis Community Senior Center in Friday Harbor.
The goals of the workshops are to:
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Media contact: Curt Hart, 360-407-6990; cell, 360-480-7908 (char461@ecy.wa.gov)
For more information about geographic response plans, the San Juan Island workshops and the site-specific response plan updating process: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/preparedness/GRP/GRPWorkshop.htm
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