MEDIA ADVISORY: September 24, 2002 DEP Division of Law
Enforcement to Participate in Emergency Response Exercise
in Tampa
TALLAHASSEE - Personnel
from DEP’s Division of Law Enforcement Bureau of
Emergency Response will be one of 10 agencies to
participate in the 2002 Preparedness for Response Exercise
Program (PREP). The exercise is being coordinated by
SeaRiver Maritime, a U.S. flag shipping company that
operates tank vessels and barges bringing petroleum
products and petro chemicals into Tampa Bay.
The scenario for
this exercise will involve a simulated major release of
one or more of these products somewhere into Tampa Bay.
The objective of the drill is to test the ability of
SeaRiver as the Responsible Party and the response
community to deal with such an event, form a Unified
Command and a response organization using an Incident
Command System (ICS) structure, and effectively utilize
the Area Contingency Plan (ACP). The goal of the exercise
is to produce a usable Incident Action Plan. The oil spill
exercise will be held in Tampa on 24-27 September.
There will be a media
opportunity:
10:00 a.m. - 11:00
a.m.
Wednesday, September
25, 2002
Wyndham Harbour
Island Hotel
725 S. Harbour Island
Blvd.
(813) 229-5000
Tampa
Press Office
