MARCH 3, 2017--OR&R’s Emergency Response Division (ERD) teamed up with the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) to provide inland oil spill training in Mojave Valley, AZ along the Lower Colorado River corridor, hosted by the DOI Bureau of Reclamation (BOR).

The class, held during the week of February 27, is the eighth of roughly 16 planned inland spill training sessions that NCTC is conducting across the country, incorporating inland spill elements pertinent to natural resource managers with varying degrees of spill experience. Thirty-six attendees included folks from the Fort Mojave Tribe, Department of Interior (DOI), US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Park Service (NPS), BOR, and Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Emphasis is placed on planning for an emergency response and coordinating within multi-agency responses for inland and fresh water environments led by EPA. A wide variety of topics covered include DOI and EPA roles during spills, basic Incident Command System (ICS), Area Contingency Plans, NRDA response coordination, health and safety, wildlife operations, oil fingerprinting and toxicology, field sampling, resources at risk evaluations, shoreline cleanup assessment technique (SCAT), and emerging risks that may threaten the unique resources along the Lower Colorado River corridor (California, Arizona, Nevada). ERD contributed an overview of NOAA’s Scientific Support roles, response as seen from a SCAT Team Member’s perspective, detection & removal of submerged oil spills, and a tabletop drill and SCAT field exercise.

For additional information, please contact Jordan.Stout@noaa.gov.

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