interesting that 32 years ago I graduated from the Coast Guard Academy with a degree in ocean engineering and it's only now that I'm coming full circle and starting to see some of the benefits of that degree in trying to understand some of the things that you're working on. So not only do I want to describe a little bit about the Office of Spill Prevention Response, or OSPR from this point forward, and where we came from, but a little bit of a discussion about what you heard about our relationship with the five Harbor Safety Committees in the state. Next slide, please. So OSPR was created about the same time as the Federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990, OPA-90. We have something similar in California called the - we call it Lempert-Keene-Seastrand. It's the Oil Pollution and - Prevention and Response Act of 1990. The result of two big spills that big happened. You're all familiar with the Exxon-Valdez, 750,000 barrels back in March of 1989. And then here down in Southern California in Huntington Beach the
interesting that 32 years ago I graduated from the Coast Guard Academy with a degree in ocean engineering and it's only now that I'm coming full circle and starting to see some of the benefits of that degree in trying to understand some of the things that you're working on. So not only do I want to describe a little bit about the Office of Spill Prevention Response, or OSPR from this point forward, and where we came from, but a little bit of a discussion about what you heard about our relationship with the five Harbor Safety Committees in the state. Next slide, please. So OSPR was created about the same time as the Federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990, OPA-90. We have something similar in California called the - we call it Lempert-Keene-Seastrand. It's the Oil Pollution and - Prevention and Response Act of 1990. The result of two big spills that big happened. You're all familiar with the Exxon-Valdez, 750,000 barrels back in March of 1989. And then here down in Southern California in Huntington Beach the
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