Attend your regional Area Committee Plan meetings

Do you work directly for or alongside any federal or state environmental/emergency agencies?

Attend your regional Area Committee Plan meetings! 

This is a great way to find out what is happening in your region, meet your regulatory peers, and represent your response industry!

The Northwest Area Committee and Regional Response Team held their quarterly meeting in Portland, Oregon on October 17^th.  SCAA members from MSRC, NRC Environmental Services and Global Diving & Salvage received updates from United States Coast Guard Sectors Puget Sound and Columbia River, the United States Environmental Protection  Agency, the Washington State Dept. of Ecology, the Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality, and the Idaho Office of Emergency Management.  Specific presentations included an overview of a warehouse fire in downtown Portland that had an asbestos response component, the Columbia River inter-tribal fishing commission summary, and Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance Programs.  The group also reviewed the 2017 task forces on Tribal Outreach, Non Floating Oils, Fire with Environmental Response, the 96 Hour Plan Tool Kit, and In-Situ Burning.

Do any of these topics sound like something the commercial response industry should be more involved with?

The next NWAC event is the annual summit on December 7^th in downtown Seattle.

This is an opportunity for the response industry to participate in shaping the topics for discussion in 2018.  Visit https://rrt10nwac.com for more details.