Encl (1) TO COMDTINST 16450.32A
SPILL MANAGEMENT TEAM REQUIREMENTS FOR RESPONSE PLANS
Owners and operators of vessels and facilities must recognize that a
spill management team is the heart of a response. It will be that
team's ability to manage an event that will play the biggest role in
determining the success or failure of the company's response. In
recognition of this fact, the vessel and facility response plan rules
establish a requirement to identify the organizational structure that
will be used to manage an oil spill response. They also require a
description of the duties and responsibilities of each of the members of
that organization.
A clear identification of key positions coupled with a functional job
description is of great importance to a well developed response plan.
The regulations identify certain key functional areas of the
organization that must be included in the organizational structure that
the plan preparer has developed for managing an oil spill. These
functional areas are:
Command and control
Public information
Safety
Liaison with government agencies
Spill response operations
Planning
Logistics support
Finance
As the regulations indicate, the above are areas required to be
included, but the rules should not be construed as those being the only
functional areas of the organization to be identified. A good response
plan should also identify a number of the functional positions that
would normally be expected to exist within each of the above areas.
Examples of some of these areas are:
Salvage/lighter operations
Open water recovery operations
Beach cleanup/protection operations
Staging Site operations to support incoming gear
Resource manager (situational oversight)
Waste stream manager (disposal)
Air operations
Environmental resource assessment
This section of the response plan should further identify a logical
progression that could be expected in the development of
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