DNR Responsibility
 Contact Information for Distribution and Review of Contingency Plans: The review of Contingency Plans by DNR is coordinated through the DNR Commissioner's Office. Contingency Plans for department review should be submitted to:
Carol Fries
Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Office of the Commissioner
550 W. 7th Ave., Suite 1400
Anchorage, AK 99501
907-269-8431
All Contingency Plans will be reviewed by the Division of Mining, Land and Water, the State Historic Preservation Office, the Office of Habitat Management and Permitting, and the Division of Oil and Gas as appropriate. Comments will be consolidated and submitted to ADEC for consideration.
NOTE: ALL FINAL CPLANS AND CPLAN Amendments MUST BE SUBMITTED IN HARD COPY.
All submittals should include a cover page with the name of the plan, DEC plan identifier, and the action requested. ANY preliminary plans for review submitted digitally must be submitted on CD in PDF format with bookmarks corresponding to a detailed table of contents.
CDs must be clearly labeled with the name of the plan, DEC plan #, requested action, and date of publication. Filenames must bear some resemblance to the name of the plan.
Information which should be included in acceptable CPlans follows:
Contact Information for Agency Notification:
Agency Notification Chart
Agency |
Spill Size |
Verbal Report |
Tel #/Fax |
Contact |
Written Rpt |
Alaska Department of Natural Resources (ADNR) |
Same as DEC Reporting Requirements |
Immediately |
(907)269-8565
(phone)
(907)269-8913 (fax) |
Clark Cox
(Primary)
|
Send copy of ADEC report. |
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References to DNR Permitting Requirements and Essential Function and Services:
- Provide land status and natural resource information to Incident Commander relating to state land and resource values.
(Clark Cox)
- Identify critical resource use areas for protection (i.e. setnet fishing areas, hatchery sites, tideland/ upland lease areas, access routes, and other land use areas).
- DNR will issue permits for use of state lands for the purpose of cleanup, monitoring and other activities necessary to respond to an emergency situation that requires the use of state land.
(Clark Cox, Division of Mining, Land and Water)
- DNR will also issue permits for response activities that might involve booms and boom anchors, scientific research activities, base camps and/or staging areas and other spill related activities that may impact state land and DNR trust resources.
- State Lands - Clark Cox, Division of Mining, Land & Water
- Cultural Resources - Judy Bittner, Dave McMahan, Richard VanderHoek, Office of History and Archaeology
- Cultural Resources (suggested language for inclusion in contingency plans)
"Historic properties (also known as historic and prehistoric archaeological resources or cultural resources) may be encountered during field-based response activities. Historic and archaeological resources include a wide range of sites, deposits, structures, ruins, buildings, graves, artifacts, fossils, and other objects of antiquity. Caution should be used in any cleanup operation in order to not disturb or impact any historical or archaeological sites during response.
Because these heritage sites are irreplaceable, the Unified Command will have a site identification and protection program to help protect these resources. For spill responses where there is no Federal On-Scene Coordinator (FOSC), the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology (AOHA) will take the lead in working with the State On-Scene Coordinator and ( your organization ) to help ensure that response activities do not inadvertently injure or destroy historic properties. Where appropriate, this will include establishment of an incident-specific Historic Properties Protection Policy, which will be signed by the Unified Command. For spill responses where there is an FOSC, the AOHA will work with the FOSC's Historic Properties Specialist to help ensure that response activities do not inadvertently injure or destroy historic properties. The FOSC's Historic Properties Specialist will also coordinate with other stakeholders, including ( your organization ) and any cultural resources specialists working for you.
All field-based response workers, including workers from ( your organization ), will strictly adhere any incident-specific Historic Properties Protection Policy. The policy will reinforce that it is unlawful to collect or disturb, remove, or destroy any historic property or suspected historic property. The policy will require field-based response personnel to immediately report any historic property that they see or encounter, to their supervisor in accordance with the incident-specific Historic Properties Protection Policy. In the absence of an incident-specific Historic Properties Protection Policy, field-based response personnel will be required to immediately report any historic property that they see or encounter to the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology (269-8721)."
Background information: Additional information on the protection of historic properties during spill response may be found on the internet at: http://www.achp.gov/NCP-PA.html (Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties During Emergency Response Under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan) and
http://www.akrrt.org/plans.shtml (Alaska Implementation Guidelines for Federal On-Scene Coordinators for the Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties During Emergency Response Under the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan).
Contact Information:
- Division of Mining, Land and Water: Clark Cox, 269-8565
- Office of History and Archaeology: Judy Bittner, 269-8715, Dave McMahan, 269-8723, Richard VanderHoek, 269-8728
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