Derelict Vessel Task Force

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Derelict Vessel Task Force
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What is the Purpose?

• The Columbia River Derelict Vessel Task Force is
  a forum of stakeholders whose purpose is to
  identify and remove imminent pollution and hazard
  to navigation threats from derelict vessels,
  barges, and houseboats along the upper, middle
  and lower Columbia River and Willamette Rivers in
  the states of Washington and Oregon.

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What is the Mission?

• The mission of this task force is to recommend
  policy, share information, and foster the
  collaborative and shared efforts of Task Force
  members to identify and mitigate the harmful
  effects of derelict vessels, barges, and
  houseboats along the middle and lower Columbia
  River and Willamette Rivers.

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Who are the Members?

• USCG Sector Columbia River MTS Recovery and
  Salvage PlannerOR State Marine Board Oregon
  Clean Marina CoordinatorWA Department of
  Ecology, Spill Response Section ManagerOR DEQ,
  Emergency Response/Enviro Cleanup, Lands Division
  ManagerWA Dept of Natural Resources, Derelict
  Vsl Removal Program ManagerEPA Federal On-Scene
  CoordinatorOR Division of State Lands, Western
  Region ManagerNOAA Scientific Support
  Coordinator
• Director, Oregon State Lands
• Other Participants includeOregon DOJMultnomah
  County Marine Patrol Supervisor

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What are the Objectives?

• 1. Inventory derelict vessels, barges, and
  houseboats along the Columbia and Willamette
  Rivers.
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• 2. Determine derelict vessels, barges, and
  houseboats that pose actual or potential
  pollution threats and hazard to navigation.
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• 3. Prioritize and remove all pollution, HAZMAT,
  and navigational threats from identified derelict
  vessels, barges, and houseboats. Prioritize and
  facilitate the removal of vessels that do not
  pose an immediate threat of pollution or hazard
  to navigation through the Task Force collective
  authority.
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• 4. Conduct regular, intense, smart surveillance
  for prevention of pollution, HAZMAT, or
  navigational threats stemming from derelict
  vessels, barges, and houseboats.
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What are the Objectives?..continued

• 5. Develop a list of law and policy areas for
  investigation where existing rules and policies
  could be changed to facilitate the reduction of
  current and future derelict and abandoned
  vessels.
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• 6. Identify opportunities to align Washington and
  Oregon laws addressing derelict vessels with the
  goal of moving toward a consistent regulatory
  regime on the Columbia River.
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• 7. Maintain effective communications with state
  and local agencies, CG Auxiliary, and Federal
  partners.

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What have we accomplished?

• Held two Meeting which
• Created Membership
• Developed Charter
• Reviewed Existing Programs
• Agenda for MSU Portland Mtg - 7 July 2011
• 1) What does a abandoned/ derelict program look
  like (e.g. who collects, what to collect, who
  gets the reports, how to recall the information)?
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• 2) What is a common prioritization mitigation
  strategy?
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• 3) Is there common training that can be delivered
  to each agency's field personnel?

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Outstanding Questions

• This Task Force was Chartered by CPAT Kaup as a
  Co-Chair of the NWAC should be include both the
  NWAC and RRT?