Organized by Spill Control Association of America (SCAA)
With potential and pending legal implications, the upcoming deadline for the Proposed Rulemaking on Clean Water Act Hazardous Substance Worst Case Discharge Planning is a critical topic to industry and regulators alike in the inland waterways environment. A panel of experts will be led through a facilitated session designed to educate and engage the audience about the various elements, challenges and considerations to this important topic.
As James O’Brien said, “There is not one right way to ride a wave”. Various forms of technology are rolling-in, catching the right ones and making them your own are key to maximizing the benefits to your preparedness and response program. GIS technology provides an excellent opportunity for custom development of mapping data for both preparedness activities and response operations. Advances in cloud-based applications allows for greater flexibility and sharing of GIS Data, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) provides secure access to external Response Partners. What are you waiting for? Ride the Wave! Topics for discussion include customized GIS applications, flexibility in design, development time, challenges, and benefits of rolling-out GIS applications, both internally and externally. Speakers will demonstrate GIS response tools and discuss real experiences using them for preparedness activities, exercises, and response operations. Attendees are encouraged to share their advancements with GIS or other technologies during the Q&A session. Board wax will not be provided!
Evolving socio-political environments have put the response industry under a new microscope. Challenges related to environmental justice, sensitive receptors, established response techniques and technologies, analytical methods and interpretations affect traditional approaches to mitigating risks to workers, communities, and the environment. Operators and responders must be aware of how these challenges affect the response landscape.
Communicating to stakeholders (community, media, agencies) before, during, and after a response can make or break public perception. Hear best practices, and gain knowledge from a panel of experts who focus on building open communications and solid relationships for emergency response.
Speakers in this session will discuss battery response from varying perspectives. Perspectives included will be responder areas of concern and best practices, environmental concerns, clean-up, the management of damaged, defected, recalled (DDR) batteries and the regulations that govern them.
This session will focus on the challenges and complexities associated with response planning across borders and jurisdictional boundaries. Speakers will address topics at the international, interstate and interprovincial, and municipal levels, and how planning, preparedness, and response can take such boundaries into consideration. The session will outline existing response agreements, and government and industry representatives will share their experiences and lessons learned through exercises and incidents followed by an interactive Q&A.
The recent loss of municipal firefighters on board a ship fire and the proposed ban on firefighting foam containing toxic chemicals has increased scrutiny on firefighting safety and environmental protection. Speakers in this session will cover recent case studies and discuss the future of firefighting operations.
Regional planning is a must since spill and/or hazmat events know no boundaries. Changes are high that overlapping agencies will responds to a singular event. The discussion in this session will focus on how those agencies can preplan, adapt and/or work together with other agencies who share oversight on an incident that crosses jurisdictional lines such as a river that flows from one state to another. Oil spills and hazmat incidents know no boundaries and changes are high that response jurisdictions will be crossed with overlapping agencies responding to a singular event. The discussion in this session will focus on the area planning process before “The Big One” hits. Agencies from all levels of government work together to preplan, adapt and work together with other agencies who share response authority on an incident that can cross jurisdictional lines from an air plume that migrates from one county to the next or an oil spill that flows down river from one state to the next. The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion on how responses evolve from local to state to federal.
Panelists in this session will discuss the MP 14 release in Washington, Kansas. They will provide an overview of the response and lessons learned for the Responsible Party (RP), EPA, and the State.
In the dynamic realm of emergency response, effective collaboration is not just a bonus—it's essential. This session will delve into the intricacies of relationship-building prior to and during an emergency, exploring strategies to foster cooperation, communication, and mutual respect. Discovering how playing nice is not just a virtue but a strategic imperative in times of crisis.
This session will focus on case studies and research involving non-traditional oil behavior and the required response tactics.
Organized by We Work the Waterways - Inland Rivers, Ports, and Terminals, Inc. (IRPT), An Association
Interagency coordination is essential to spill preparedness and response along the inland waterways. The intricate rivers, lakes and streams touch multiple local, states and federal jurisdictions, generating the need for multi-agency contingency planning and response operations. These cross-jurisdictional responses are dynamic and complex and can often create confusion and misunderstanding of authorities, responsibilities, and jurisdictions. Speakers in this session provide clarity on state and federal agencies jurisdictional roles and responsibilities and will also offer valuable lessons learned from past case studies involving interagency coordination and response operations on the inland waterways.