Geographic Response Plans

These Geographic Response Plans (GRPs) have been posted for review by local, state, tribal, and federal agencies to use as a guide to protecting natural and cultural resources during the initial response to oil spills in a geographical area.  They outline recommended spill containment strategies that initial responders can use to alleviate some of the confusion that frequently accompanies emergency response actions.  As with any response plan tied to geographical information, these GRPs are living documents, subject to change based upon changes in local conditions and available resources.  As such, your comments, corrections, and recommendations based on any new information about the geographical areas or strategies contained in the GRPs below are welcome and may be submitted through the website on the comments page.

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Washington State Coastal, Lower Columbia River, and Puget Sound GRPs Return to Top
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Maintained by Washington State Department of Ecology

*Chapter 4 of the Central Puget Sound GRP has been recently updated.


Oregon State Coastal GRPs
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Spokane River GRP - February 2006 Version *
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All Spokane River GRP
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12.9 MB

Pend Oreille GRP - December 2005 Version *
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All Pend Orielle GRP
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49.8 MB

Clearwater/Lochsa River GRP - April 2005 Version *
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92.4 MB

Lower Deschutes River GRP - October 2004 Version *
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65.0 MB

Middle Columbia River GRPs - May 2004 Version *
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Complete Middle Columbia River GRP
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7.5 MB

GRP Field Reports

GRP Field Reports

GRP Field Reports are also available. These reports contain information pertaining to specific Field Visits (a visit to an area to determine if a strategy is still feasible) or Field Tests (an actual practice of a particular strategy).

* Due to the size of these files, it may take a significant amount of time to view or download each of them, depending on your connection speed. We recommend that you download the entire document to your computer for each GRP of interest and not attempt to view the documents online. If you would prefer to obtain these documents on CD (with the exception of the GRPs maintained by the Washington Department of Ecology and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality), please contact:

    Andrew Maguire
    Ecology & Environment, Inc.
    720 Third Ave
    Suite 1700
    Seattle, WA 98104
    206-624-9537
    amaguire@ene.com