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1989-04-19 Regular MeetingOil Spill Management Council April 19, 1989 @ 5:00 p.m. Kodiak, Alaska SELBY handed TOM WATSON a paper on another request from Port Lions for boom. WATSON: We have dealt with that. SELBY: It was on their priority list. BLACKETT: When I got back from 10 o'clock meeting, there was a note from Congressman Young. A visit will be made on Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Handed out agenda of visit). Where do we want them for a multi -agencies briefing for Kodiak. They want to visit a cannery. A reception at the Golden Anchor will be at 4:30 p.m. GOULD: Cannery tour will be at All -Alaskan, and there will be a fishing vessel staged at the dock so they can view it. BLACKETT: I don't think they need the vessel. GOULD: I think the command center downtown is the best because it has all the maps, etc. BLACKETT: That sounds like a good idea. They can see where we are doing our business now. All agencies should be represented at reception. As I understand, Saturday morning Senator Stevens arrives early. I will firm this up. I heard something about a breakfast with mayors and people downtown in the early morning. There will be some "liasoning" to do. MADDEN: Russian skimmer is headed out of port and to Gore Point. Mr. Clean III will go directly to Gore Point. C130 was primarily over all of the Shelikof Straits. No oil west of Barren Islands and Cape Elizabeth. Nothing further past Barrens. Ruff 'n Ready reported some slick along west shoreline of Shuyak. We are putting boom out to protect it. They are putting boom across Big Fort Channel and will hang screen. Some boats that have deployed their boom are coming back to pick up more boom. We received 7,000'. BRODIE: Do you keep written reports, and will you give them to us? Oil Spill Management Council 1 4/19/89 @ 5:00 p.m. 03895 MADDEN: I will also give you report of which boat has boom. SELBY: Would be very helpful to us in keeping up-to-date. MADDEN: Alaska Fish & Game went to McDonalds and couldn't find sheen that had been reported. No other reports from spotter planes. WILSON: Follow up from morning meeting: Afterward we discussed needs for Port Lions, and we have been in touch with them about gasoline and miscellaneous supplies and will have needs out on a boat this evening. As I said earlier, we did discuss and did concur with their requests for 750' additional log boom. I apologize for Mr. Wade not being here. He is in a meeting discussing lab requirements and what facilities are available on Island. Hopefully, at meeting tomorrow morning, we will have that. We are still putting a plan together for Kodiak Island and the entire cleanup effort. May 1st we will submit it to the Coast Guard. It will cover all the way down through Kodiak Island. KLEIN: Is someone coordinating cleanup plan in Kodiak. THOMAS: Initial phase is being handled out of Valdez, and they will give us plan and will send it. Fred Byars and I will put it together and go through Jim Wade to the Coast Guard. SELBY: Will that include beach cleanup method? MADDEN: DEC will 'cover that. KLEIN: We have been working with agencies and Coast Guard to come together with a standard beach cleanup. We anticipate having it completed by tomorrow afternoon. I can see where they will easily fit into Exxon's cleanup. MADDEN: We terminated beach cleanup about 11:00 a.m. today. The bears wanted to help. Tomorrow we are to physically look at site with trained bear scarers. KLEIN: Additionally, the department requests a helicopter to actively expand spill survey and beach for a quicker response. (Handed out a report that provides analysis of oil). BILL LEHR (NOAA): What it is saying is it is 70% water and lighter toxicity gone. It is as about as potent as eating asphalt. KLEIN: Will contact chemist for a lay -man's analysis. SELBY: Did you make progress on mobile boat washing station? THOMAS: We have a proposal in, and we have not had a chance to fully review it. We have sent it to Valdez for comments. SELBY: The two strike teams are being worked up? Oil Spill Management Council 2 4/19/89 @ 5:00 p.m. THOMAS: Should be by this evening they would have the 12 people on board. BLACKETT: I talked to Jim Wade about transporting them, and we can. GOULD: I have a request from the Harbormaster that these draggers start coming back to port staggering their arrival so we don't have them setting in port oiled. SELBY: The skimmer and dragging in Nuka Point going big guns? MADDEN: Yes, the Morganthal and some Kodiak draggers are pulling 84" boom and corralling oil for Morganthal. BRODIE: Any video cameras on board? BLACKETT: Sure, all of them. We are immortalizing this. SELBY: Would be nice to get a copy of this. JAY (FISH & WILDLIFE): Ten Bears are primarily covering east side of Shuyak. Have found no oiled sea otter but have five dead oiled birds on board. Saw one oiled land otter but couldn't catch him. They haven't check area northerly from Big Fort Island. Tomorrow will check the location of radio -decked sea otter around Shuyak and will monitor where those animals are. DAVE DASH: We had a flight up the west side of Shelikoff going north and nothing of significance. SELBY: Did they fly over Cape Douglas? DASH: If they did, they didn't see any. MADDEN: Park service has taken sample and sent it in for analysis. PARKS: We ordered boat to go to Middle Cove to do an assessment, but they were diverted before getting there. Good progress made regarding cleanup and assessment procedures. There is a meeting again tomorrow at 1 o'clock to do some more. EMERGENCY SERVICES: Everything set for Senior Center for Friday. We do want to emphasize its for people who think they may have a hardship at a later time. Experts will all be under one roof. BRODIE: We have on site now two representatives from testing lab --Paul Frawley and Don Cook. They will be doing testing on road system. WILSON: New member of our team is Dick Dorney. I will move more to assisting Jim Wade, and Dick will work with Dan Jones to get to villages. After 10 o'clock meeting today, we had Akhiok's and Karluk's mayors to look at center --Ronnie Lind, Dave Eluska, and Dolly Reft. They had a short visit with Dan, and we are continuing to go out and contact villagers. We are trying to Oil Spill Management Council 3 4/19/89 @ 5:00 p.m. 03897 contact them directly and set up some schedules to get out there as fast as we can. DICK DORNEY: I talked to Frank Carlson of Larsen Say and filled him in on what was going on. They want a better understanding of what they would be preparing for. It's a question of calming folks down and letting them know what they can constructively do. NOAH: Will be having a group come into different areas and talk. They are delayed because of VIPs coming to visit. Oil Spill Management Council 0 4/19/89 @ 5:00 p.m.