This Marine Safety Information Bulletin serves to announce that the United States Coast Guard, along with its National Response Team (NRT) partners, is requiring anyone with preparedness and response experience to complete a national online survey. The NRT has established a workgroup charged with improving and modernizing our national area contingency planning products. It is important to obtain feedback from all parties that have a nexus to the National Response System. This includes all facility and vessel response plan holders, as well as anyone with experience in any oil or hazardous substance spill response or planning capacity. To ensure feedback is robust and divers, all private, non-profit, local, state, tribal and federal stakeholders with an interest in this topic participate in the survey are strongly encouraged to participate.
To complete the online survey, please log on to the following website: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5QHKM89
The survey will open from March 1st – April 30th, 2018. The time needed to complete the survey should range from 10-25 minutes.