Alaska Regional Response Team: Unified Plan Table of Contents.

(2.4 MB PDF) Memorandum of Agreement on Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution
Prevention and Response Between the Commander, Seventeenth Coast
Guard District and the State of Alaska (January 1999, revised). This MOA
outlines procedures for coordination and cooperation between the State of
Alaska and the Coast Guard Seventeenth District in regards to implementing and
exercising their statutory and regulatory duties related to oil spill planning,
prevention, and response.
(284 KB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding Among the Secretary of the Interior,
Secretary of Transportation, and Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency (February 1994). This MOU establishes the jurisdictional
responsibilities for offshore facilities (including pipelines), and outlines the basic
responsibilities of the parties concerned with regard to spill prevention and
control, response planning, and equipment inspection activities.
(161 KB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of the Interior
(U.S. Geological Survey) and the Department of Transportation (U.S. Coast
Guard) (August 1971). This MOU outlines the responsibilities of the USGS and
USCG in regards to source abatement and the containment and removal of
pollutants, respectively. The MOU pertains to responsibilities outlined in the
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan, the Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act, and the Submerged Lands Act.
(306 KB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding between the Alaska Pipeline Office and the
Seventeenth Coast Guard District (October 1978) clarifying roles and
responsibilities. The APO will perform as the FOSC for all TAPS related oil spills
that enter or threaten inland waters, and the USCG will be the FOSC for all spills
that enter coastal waters. Specific geographic response boundaries are
included.
(381 KB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (Alaska Operations Office) and the U.S. Coast Guard Seventeenth
Coast Guard District Concerning FOSC Response Boundaries for Oil
Discharges and Hazardous Substance Releases (Dec 1994). This MOU
establishes the emergency response boundaries for Coast Guard and EPA
Federal On-Scene Coordinators (FOSCs) for response to oil discharges and
hazardous substance releases in Alaska. Thirty-five chartlets of Western Alaska
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were included as enclosures to the MOU, but have been removed from the MOU
contained in this Annex. Contact the USCG, Seventeenth District (Marine
Environmental Protection Branch) for copies of the chartlets.
(445 KB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding between the Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation and the United States Department of the
Interior/Alaska Pipeline Office (December 1978). This MOU outlines
responsibilities for pipeline-related oil spills and other pollutants. ADEC will
basically perform in an advisory role to the Alaska Pipeline Office and function as
a clearinghouse for other State agencies.
(589 KB PDF) Memorandum of Agreement between the Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation (Division of Spill Prevention and Response)
and the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (Division of
Emergency Services) (January 1992). This MOA highlights response and
planning roles and responsibilities for each agency during declared disaster
emergency situations and non-declared events.
(277 KB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding between the Alaska Departments of Health
and Social Services, Military and Veterans Affairs, Environmental
Conservation, and Labor (September 1982) concerning emergency response
to peacetime radiation incidents and accidents. This MOU outlines specific
agency roles and responsibilities during a peacetime radiological
accident/incident.
(278 KB PDF) Oil Spill Memorandum of Cooperation between the Province of British
Columbia, the State of Washington, the State of Oregon, and the State of
Alaska (June 1989). This memorandum outlines a cooperative effort amongst
the signatory agencies to reduce the potential for major oil spills through
development of a joint emergency response plan, technology sharing, joint
exercises and training, and committee reviews of prevention and response
procedures.
(281 KB PDF) Memorandum of Agreement between the Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company and the U.S. Coast Guard, Seventeenth Coast Guard District
Concerning the Application of Chemical Dispersants for Oil Spill Response
(December 1994). This MOA expands the capability of applying dispersants to
oils spills in Alaska waters through the joint utilization of Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company (APSC) and the Seventeenth Coast Guard District (USCG) personnel
and equipment (to include the use of USCG aircraft, and APSC oil dispersants
and application equipment).
(384 KB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States Environmental
Protection Agency and the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Land Management (May 1994). This MOU clarifies roles and responsibilities
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regarding preparedness and response to an Inland Zone Oil Discharge from the
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.
(256 KB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding Between the Regional Director of the
Minerals Management Service Alaska OCS Region and the Assistant
Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region X, Alaska Operations Office (July 1994). This MOU establishes
Minerals Management Service (MMS) responsibility for offshore oil facilities
located in Cook Inlet, Alaska, as authorized in the MOU between the Secretary of
the Interior, Secretary of Transportation, and the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency, dated February 3, 1994, regarding division of
Agency jurisdictional responsibilities for spill prevention and control, response
planning, and equipment inspection activities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990
(OPA 90).
(332 KB PDF) Letter of Agreement Between the Minerals Management Service, Alaska
Outer Continental Shelf Region, and the Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation Regarding Pollution Prevention and Response
Preparedness for Oil and Gas Facilities on Alaska Submerged Lands
(October 1994). This Letter of Agreement was entered into by the parties
concerned for the purpose of coordinating and implementing requirements with
respect to oil spill prevention and response preparedness for offshore oil and gas
facilities and pipelines on State of Alaska submerged lands and offshore areas
which demonstrate a likelihood of affecting State waters in the event of a
catastrophic spill.
(1.7 MB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding on Oil and Hazardous Substance Pollution
Prevention and Response Between the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (Region X) and the State of Alaska Department of Environmental
Conservation (July 1997). This MOU outlines procedures for coordination and
cooperation between the State of Alaska and the EPA (Region X) with regard to
implementing and exercising their statutory and regulatory duties related to oil
spill planning, prevention, and response.
(2.7 MB PDF) States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force Mutual Aid Agreement
(January 1996). The purpose of this agreement is to set specified conditions
whereby certain contingency plan holders may be allowed to meet temporarily
reduced response standards in order that their response equipment may be
available for mutual aid. This agreement assures that most of the spill response
equipment on the West Coast will be available to respond rapidly in the event of
a major spill.
(1.9 MB PDF) Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and
the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Concerning
Cooperation in Combating Pollution in the Bering and Chukchi Seas in
Emergency Situations (May 1989).
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(Not used)
(435 KB PDF) Memorandum of Agreement Between the Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation and the Alaska Department of Transportation
and Public Facilities (June 1994). The purpose of this agreement is to address
unknown third party hazardous substance contamination on State property under
the jurisdiction of DOT/PF.
(666 KB PDF) Local Response Agreement Between the Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation and the Fairbanks North Star Borough (FNSB)
(June 1996). The purpose of this agreement is to facilitate coordinated and
effective oil and hazardous substance release responses within the State, and
provide for reimbursement by the ADEC for actual costs, other than normal
operating expenses, incurred by the Borough in the abatement of a release or
threatened release of oil or a hazardous substance as authorized under State
law. Under this agreement, the ADEC State On-Scene Coordinator can request
the services of the Fairbanks Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) for response to a
Hazmat incident (including incidents which may occur beyond the jurisdictional
boundaries of the Borough).
(712 KB PDF) Local Response Agreement Between the Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation and the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA)
(April 1998). The purpose of this agreement is to facilitate coordinated and
effective oil and hazardous substance release responses within the State, and
provide for reimbursement by the ADEC for actual costs, other than normal
operating expenses, incurred by the MOA in the abatement of a release or
threatened release of oil or a hazardous substance as authorized under State
law. Under this agreement, the ADEC State On-Scene Coordinator can request
the services of the MOA Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) for response to a
Hazmat incident (including incidents which may occur beyond the jurisdictional
boundaries of the municipality).
(1.7 MB PDF) Memorandum of Understanding Between Minerals Management Service
(U.S. Department of the Interior) and United States Coast Guard (U.S.
Department of Transportation) (December 1998). This MOU defines the
responsibilities of the MMS and the USCG relating to managing the activities of
Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, fixed and floating systems. It is designed to
minimize duplication and promote consistent regulation of facilities under the
jurisdiction of both agencies. This MOU does not apply to deepwater ports as
licensed by the Secretary of Transportation under the Deepwater Port Act of
1974, as amended.