The Coast Guard is publishing the new PREP guidelines on behalf of the Preparedness for Response Exercise Program Compliance, Coordination, and Consistency Committee.
2/26/2018: Notice of availability, request for comments on proposed changes to 2016 National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program Guidelines
The Coast Guard is soliciting public comment on the potential deregulatory savings that may result from the revisions proposed in the 2016.1 PREP Guidelines. The Coast Guard also continues to seek public comment on the revisions proposed in the 2016.1 PREP Guidelines.
1/10/2018: Don’t miss the January 22 deadline to submit comments on proposed changes to PREP guidelines
Comments to the proposed changes and related material must reach the Coast Guard by January 22, 2018. Significant Coast Guard-specific revisions include changes to requirements associated with Remote Assessment and Consultation drills.
12/22/2017: Submit comments on proposed changes to 2016 National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program Guidelines
The Coast Guard is seeking comment to proposed changes to the 2016 PREP Guidelines by Jan. 22, 2018.
5/23/2017: IOSC 2017 Recap #2-In a hostile environment? Skills needed for success
Is it realistic to expect you’ll meet all stakeholder needs during a response? It is a question all incident commanders from any segment of the oil spill response community should ask themselves. Lt. Cmdr. Danielle Shupe, an instructor at the Coast Guard’s Training Center in Yorktown, Virginia, had the opportunity to answer that question from a Coast Guard perspective during last week’s International Oil Spill Conference in Long Beach, California. We continue our IOSC series with a condensed version of Shupe’s remarks on the subject. These remarks are not ‘as delivered’ but provide a condensed version in the ‘panel-conversational’ style.