JULY 1, 2016--The West Coast Joint Assessment Team (JAT), made up of oil spill trustees and industry representatives from the West coast and Canada and industry met last week in Seattle.

OR&R’s Assessment and Restoration Division participated in the meeting, helping to finalize updates to the guidelines, and the Recommendations for Conducting Cooperative Natural Resource Damage Assessment. Canadian representatives briefed the JAT on recent legislation to improve oil spill response and develop a natural resource damage assessment program. The JAT also discussed a trans-boundary spill scenario in the Salish Sea and options to work cooperatively on a damage assessment.

For more information, contact Marla.Steinhoff@noaa.gov.

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