Oil Spill Exercise Program Overview
Alyeska will conduct periodic oil spill reconnaissance and response exercises under the direction of the Pipeline Asset Mangers to ensure that adequate numbers of trained personnel and equipment are available to respond to oil spills at pump stations and along the right-of-way. Oil spill response scenarios will include multiple levels of spill volume from small spills up to catastrophic spill volumes.

The design, execution, management, and documentation of lessons learned from these exercises will follow a programmatic approach based on the National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program, (N-PREP) guidelines. The U.S. Coast Guard developed these guidelines which have been adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Department of Interior-Minerals Management Service.

A guiding principle of the exercise program is to conduct a sufficient number of exercises to ensure that all personnel have an opportunity to participate in at least one exercise, in their assigned response position per year. The Pipeline Oil Spill Prevention and Response Coordinator is responsible for development and management of the pipeline oil spill response exercise program. Pipeline Maintenance Coordinators and Operations and Maintenance Supervisors are responsible for scheduling, conducting, and making personnel available for participation in periodic exercises.

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