The 2017 Hurricane Season: Recommendations for a Resilient Path Forward for the Marine Transportation System
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The 2017 Hurricane Season: Recommendations for a Resilient Path Forward for the Marine Transportation System Report Drafted by the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System Marine Transportation System Resilience Integrated Action Team (RIAT) NOAA/NASA December 2018 1 Foreword This report is a product of the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) Resilience Integrated Action Team (RIAT). The RIAT was established in September of 2014 by the CMTS Coordinating Board (CB) to focus on cross-federal agency knowledge, co-production, and governance to incorporate the concepts of resilience into the operation and management of the U.S. Marine Transportation System (MTS). The RIAT is composed of twelve federal agencies that manage, operate, or have a significant interest in the MTS and its services. In October 2017, the CMTS CB requested that the RIAT review the impacts and compile best practices and lessons learned for federal agencies that operate within the MTS during the 2017 hurricane season. This report is a product of the diverse perspectives of the 12 RIAT member agencies. MTS Resilience Integrated Action Team Leads: Co-lead: Joshua Murphy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Co-lead: Katherine Chambers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center Staff Lead: Kathryn McIntosh, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center RIAT Member Agencies: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System U.S. Department of Homeland Security U.S. Department of Transportation U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Maritime Administration National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration U.S Department of the Navy U.S. Transportation Command This report was compiled with expertise and input from RIAT team members and RIAT agency experts with a special thanks to the following members for their contributions in writing the report: Harvey Hill, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources; LT Kelley Edwards, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG); Johnathan Hsieh, USCG; LTCDR Rachel Stryker (USCG); Helen Brohl, U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS); Nicole Bartolucci, CMTS; Jaqueline McKinney, CMTS; Supriti Jaya Ghosh, CMTS; Joshua Rebello, CMTS; William McNamara, Department of Homeland Security (DHS); Andrew Pasternack, DHS; Sandra Pinel, DHS; Matthew Chambers, Department of Transportation; and Rachel White, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2 CITATION: U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System, The 2017 Hurricane Season: Recommendations for a Resilient Path Forward for the Marine Transportation System, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C. 3 The 2017 Hurricane Season: Recommendations for a Resilient Path Forward for the Marine Transportation System December 2018 1200 New Jersey AVE SE Washington, D.C. 20590 www.cmts.gov 4 Table of Contents Guide to Acronyms and Abbreviations: ........................................................................................................ 7 Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 12 2017 Hurricane Season in Review ............................................................................................................... 13 Impacts of the MTS on Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean ..................................................................... 14 Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 14 Texas Ports .......................................................................................................................................... 15 Florida Ports ........................................................................................................................................ 17 U.S. Caribbean Ports ........................................................................................................................... 19 Hurricane Impacts, Pre-storm Actions, Challenges, and Successes ........................................................ 21 Hurricane Harvey ................................................................................................................................ 22 Hurricane Irma .................................................................................................................................... 27 Hurricane Maria .................................................................................................................................. 33 Federal Best Practices to Restore and Recover MTS Operations ........................................................... 38 Useful Information and Tools for Response and Recovery................................................................. 40 Opportunities to Enhance Response and Recovery ............................................................................ 41 Recommendations to Increase MTS Resilience ...................................................................................... 42 Preparation Actions ............................................................................................................................ 43 Resist and Recovery Actions ............................................................................................................... 44 Adaptation Actions ............................................................................................................................. 45 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................... 46 APPENDIX 1: Agencies and Offices of Workshop Attendees ...................................................................... 48 APPENDIX 2: Interdependencies with Non-Federal Systems and Organizations ....................................... 49 APPENDIX 3: Learning from Previous Storms – Challenges and lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy ... 52 APPENDIX 4: Marine Transportation System Agency Response and Recovery .......................................... 55 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ................................................................................................................ 55 Environmental Protection Agency .......................................................................................................... 56 U.S. Coast Guard .................................................................................................................................... 57 Department of Homeland Security Office of Infrastructure Protection ................................................. 57 Federal Emergency Management Agency .............................................................................................. 58 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ............................................................................... 59 Department of Transportation – Maritime Administration ................................................................... 60 5 References .................................................................................................................................................. 61 6 Guide to Acronyms and Abbreviations: AC Area Committee AIS Automatic Identification System AMSC Areas Maritime Security Committee ATON Aids to Navigation CART Common Assessment and Reporting Tool CB Coordinating Board for the Committee on the Marine Transportation System CMTS U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System COTP Captain of the Port CSI Chemical Security Inspectors DOD Department of Defense DOT Department of Transportation DHS Department of Homeland EEIs Essential Elements of Information EPA Environmental Protection Agency FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency GAO Government Accountability Office GDP Gross Domestic Product HSIN Homeland Security Information Network IDR Office of Infrastructure Protection’s Infrastructure Development and Recovery Program IP Office of Infrastructure Protection MTS Marine Transportation System MARAD Maritime Administration MTSRU Marine Transportation System Recovery Unit NIAS Nationwide Automatic Identification System NGS National Geodetic Survey NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.) OR&R Office of Response and Restoration PSA Protective Security Advisors RIAT Resilience Integrated Action Team SCCs Scientific Support Coordinators USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USCG U.S. Coast Guard USVIs U.S. Virgin Islands 7 Executive Summary In October 2017, the Coordinating Board of the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS) tasked the Marine Transportation System Resilience Integrated Action Team (RIAT) to identify the impacts, best practices, and lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane season. The RIAT is a consortium of Federal agencies that manage, operate, or are stakeholders in the Marine Transportation System (MTS) and have interest in increasing the resilience of the MTS to prepare, respond, recover, and adapt to disruption. To fulfill this request, the RIAT convened the 12 member agencies to discuss some of