United States Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Savannah Area Contingency Plan Note: This plan was published in February 2011 and may have been revised. For the most current version of the base plan, please visit https://homeport.uscg.mil/savannah. RECORD OF CHANGES Change Date of Change Date Entered By Whom Entered Number 1 24 JAN 2003 24 JAN 2003 James C. Smith 2 11 MAR 2008 11 MAR 2008 Mr. Charles Johnson 3 15 JAN 2011 10 FEB 2011 LT Greg Reilly 4 10 MAR 2011 10 MAR 2011 Mr. Richard Knudsen – EFH Consult. 5 22 MAR 2011 22 MAR 2011 Teri Dane – Env. Sensitive Areas Table 6 6 MAY 2011 6 MAY 2011 Teri Dane – Env. Sensitive Areas Table 7 6 June 2011 10 June 2011 Teri Dane – Env. Sensitive Areas Table Page 2 of 156 Table of Contents 1000 Introduction ................................................................................................ 10 1100 Authorities and Involved Agencies ..................................................................... 11 1110 Captain of the Port Authority ........................................................................ 12 1120 Pollution Investigation Authority ................................................................... 12 1130 Involved Agencies ........................................................................................ 12 1140 Guiding Principles ........................................................................................ 13 1200 Geographic Boundaries and Area Spill Information ........................................... 14 1210 Waterborne Transportation .......................................................................... 17 1220 Port of Savannah ......................................................................................... 18 1230 Port of Brunswick ......................................................................................... 20 1240 Local Information ......................................................................................... 21 1240.1 Tides and Tidal Currents ......................................................................... 21 1240.2 Offshore Conditions ................................................................................ 21 1240.3 Industrial and Domestic Water ................................................................ 21 1240.4 Climate ................................................................................................... 21 1240.5 Coastal Plain ........................................................................................... 22 1240.6 Barrier Islands ......................................................................................... 22 1240.7 Marshes .................................................................................................. 22 1300 Area Committee Purpose & Objective ............................................................... 22 1310 Area Committee Executive Committee ........................................................ 23 1320 Area Committee Organizational Chart ......................................................... 24 1400 National Response System ............................................................................... 24 1410 National Response Framework (NRF) ......................................................... 24 1420 National Response Policy ............................................................................ 24 1430 National Response Structure ....................................................................... 25 1430.1 Incidents of National Significance ........................................................... 25 1430.2 Spill of National Significance (SONS)...................................................... 25 1440 National Response Team (NRT) .................................................................. 26 1450 Regional Response Team (RRT) ................................................................. 27 1460 Area Response Structure ............................................................................. 27 1470 Incident Command System .......................................................................... 28 1470.1 National Incident Management System ................................................... 29 1480 Area Exercise Mechanism ........................................................................... 31 1490 Federal Response Plan ............................................................................... 31 14100 Federal Radiological Response Plan ......................................................... 31 1500 State and Local Response System .................................................................... 31 1510 State Response Policy ................................................................................. 31 1510.1 Georgia ................................................................................................... 31 1510.2 South Carolina ........................................................................................ 32 1520 Local Response System .............................................................................. 32 1530 Local Response Policy ................................................................................. 32 1600 National Policy and Doctrine .............................................................................. 33 1610 Public vs. Private Resource Utilization ......................................................... 33 1620 Best Response Concept .............................................................................. 34 1630 Cleanup Assessment Protocol (i.e. “How Clean is Clean?”) ......................... 34 1640 Dispersant Pre-Approval/Monitoring/Decision Protocol ................................ 35 1650 In-situ burn Approval/Monitoring/Decision Protocol ...................................... 35 1655 Solidifier Decision Protocol .......................................................................... 35 Page 3 of 156 1660 Fish and Wildlife Acts Compliance (Migratory Bird Act, Marine Mammal Act, Endangered Species Act, Essential Fish Habitat, etc) .......................................... 36 1670 Protection of Historic Properties ................................................................... 36 1680 Alternative Response Technical Evaluation System (ARTES) ..................... 37 1690 Specialized Monitoring of Advanced Response Technology (SMART) ........ 39 1700 Reserved ........................................................................................................... 39 1800 Reserved ........................................................................................................... 39 1900 Reserved ........................................................................................................... 39 2000 Command .................................................................................................. 40 2100 Unified Command – Command Structure .......................................................... 40 2110 Incident Command Post .............................................................................. 41 2200 Command Staff Elements .................................................................................. 41 2210 Federal Representative................................................................................ 41 2220 State Representative ................................................................................... 42 2230 RP Representative ....................................................................................... 42 2300 Safety ................................................................................................................ 43 2310 Site Safety Plan ........................................................................................... 43 2400 Public Information .............................................................................................. 44 2410 Joint Information Center (JIC) ...................................................................... 44 2420 Media Contacts ............................................................................................ 44 2500 Liaison ............................................................................................................... 44 2600 Reserved ........................................................................................................... 45 2700 Reserved ........................................................................................................... 45 2800 Reserved ........................................................................................................... 45 2900 Reserved ........................................................................................................... 45 3000 Operations ................................................................................................. 46 3100 Operations Section ............................................................................................ 46 3110 Operations Section Chief ............................................................................. 46 3200 Recovery and Protection ................................................................................... 47 3210 Protection Group .......................................................................................... 47 3220 On-Water Recovery Group .......................................................................... 48 3230 Shoreside Recovery Group .......................................................................... 48 3240