State Agencies

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Other States

• • • Alabama Response Agencies
    • Florida Response Agencies
    • Mississippi Response Agencies
    • Louisiana Response Agencies

Texas General Land Office

• • • Texas General Land Office Online Viewer
      • Oil Spill Mapping Viewer
    • Measured and Forecast Currents for Texas and Western Louisiana Gulf Coast, Texas General Land Office, and Texas A&M University Geochemical and Environmental Research Group
      • Texas Automated Buoy System
    • Educate Prevent and Respond
      • TGLO Oil Spill Prevention and Response Program
    • Locational information on public beach and bay access sites along the Texas Coast
      • Texas Coasts
    • Texas Beach Watch program provides the public with information about water quality at selected recreational beaches along the Texas coast
      • TexasBeachWatch.com

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Texas Water Development Board

• • • Texas Water Development Board - Modeled Currents with Associated Winds and Tides
      • Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)

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Texas Department of Emergency Management

• • • Regional and Section Chiefs and District Coordinators Contact Information
      • Texas Department of Emergency Managment

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Texas Historical Commission

• • • Administration, Archeology, Architecture, Community Heritage Development, Historic Sites, History Programs
      • Texas Historical Commission

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Texas Department of Transportation

• • • Texas Marine Forecast, TxDOT Highway Conditions, NDOW
      • Highway Conditions (drivetexas.org)

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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

• • • Cleanups, Remediation, Emergency Response, Licensing, Permits, Registration, Preventing Pollution, Recycling, Reporting, Rules
      • Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

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Texas Parks and Wildlife

• • • Texas Parks and Wildlife Endangered Species Listings
      • Texas Parks and Wildlife

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NOAA

Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R)

• • • A center of expertise in preparing for, evaluating, and responding to threats to coastal environments, including oil and chemical spills, releases from hazardous waste sites, and marine debris.

      • NOAA Office of Response and Restoration
    • NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application Gulf of Mexico
      • ERMA
    • Paper charts (RNC & PDF), Electronic Charts, Coast Pilot, Help
      • NOAA Nautical Chart Viewer
      • Other Charts and Products
    • NOAA Currents
      • PORTS ^®
    • NOAA Tides
      • Tide Predictions
    • Wave and Offshore Wind Measurements
      • National Data Buoy Center and National Weather Service
    • NOAA Spill Response Selection Guide
      • NOAA Guide
    • Wave Forecasts
      • NOAA Wavewatch III

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Sea Grant

Oil Spill Science

• • • Oil Spill Science Outreach Team
      • Oil Spill Science Outreach Publications

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security:

United States Coast Guard

• • • News, Reports, Sector Commands, and National Marsec Level
      • USCG Marine Safety and Environmental Protection (HOMEPORT)

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USFWS:

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services

• • • USFWS Threatened and Endangered Species
      • United States Fish and Wildlife Service
    • USFWS IPaC, Information, Planning, and Conservation decision support system planning tool. (Species Listings)
      • United States Fish and Wildlife Service IPaC

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Other Resources

 

• • The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited, 2016
    • ITOPF
  • Oil Spill Prevention Response Development Center
    • API
  • Net Environmental Benefit Analysis (NEBA)
    • IPIECA
  • Sea Surface Temperature Imagery
    • Ocean Remote Sensing Group at Johns Hopkins University
  • Worldwide vessel tracking by VesselFinder
    • Marine Traffic Vessel Tracker
  • Tropical Weather Spaghetti Models
    
    • Mike's Weather Page

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Oil Spill Statutes, Regulations and Policies

 

• • Oil Pollution Act of 1990:
    • The federal framework for oil spill response
  • Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1991
    • State law enacting the Texas Oil Spill Prevention and Response program
  • Texas Administrative Code:
    • Oil Spill Prevention and Response Program
    • Rules and regs governing the Texas Oil Spill Prevention and Response program
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:
    • USAC Website
    • Spill Response Nation Wide Permits (note NWP#s 13,20,38)