In November, Admiral Thad W. Allen Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard directed the Coast Guard Chief of Staff to initiate an Incident Specific Preparedness Review (ISPR) of the Cosco Busan oil spill near San Francisco. The ISPR team was not asked to determine the cause of the incident but to only report on the preparedness and response to the spill.
The ISPR team members are:
- State of California Representatives
- Lisa Curtis, administrator, and
- Capt. Paul Hamdorf, patrol captain, California Office of Spill Prevention and response;
- Oil Spill Policy Representative
- Jean R. Cameron, executive coordinator, Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force;
- Environmental Coalition Representatives
- Linda Sheehan, executive director, California Coastkeeper Alliance and
- Deb Self, executive director, San Francisco Baykeeper;
- Industry Representative
- John Berge, Vice President, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association;
- San Francisco City Representatives
- Laura Phillips, executive director, Department of Emergency Management, Division of Emergency Services and
- Rob Dudgeon, EMT-P manager of plans and operations, Department of Emergency Management;
- Scientific Support Coordinator Representative
- Steve Lehmann, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration.
- Chairman
- Rear Adm. Carlton Moore, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve (retired) and former Administrator of California OSPR;
- ISPR team executive assistant and recorder
- Lt. Cmdr. Ross Sargent, ISPR Executive Assistant, Assistant Chief, Operational Law Branch, U.S. Coast Guard Maintenance and Logistics Command, Pacific and
- Lt. Kelly Dietrich, ISPR Recorder, Coast Guard Office of Incident Management and Preparedness.
The full report is available at:
http://www.uscg.mil/FOIA/CoscoBuscan/CoscoBusanISPRFinal.pdf
A briefing of the report is available at Coast Guard News Blog under
