| - The NRS provides a framework for coordination among federal, state, tribal, and local responders and responsible parties to respond effectively on-scene to oil discharges and releases of hazardous substances – whether accidental or deliberate. Coordinating planning requires integrating elements of a host of federal and state statutes and implementing regulations with different purposes.
- The NRS accomplishes this through the development and maintenance of a family of layered and interlocking contingency plans. Plans required under the NRS authorities are shown here with solid lines. These plans are required under regulation to be consistent. The family of plans includes multiple levels to provide an integrated approach to responding to oil/hazardous substance incidents.
- The Area Contingency Plan (ACP) is the center of the solar-system of plans and the ACP and its associated Area Committee is where the agency-industry relationship is nurtured (though industry reps are not “members” of Area Committees).
- Industry plans, which must be compatible with ACPs, are an integral component of the NRS, and the NCP provides for unique responsibilities of entities responsible for a spill – referred to as the RP.
- This family of oil/hazardous substance plans integrates with and supports the NRF.
Full description (alt text) of the Family of Plans graphic. |
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