Recent RRT Activities with Canada

RRT1 Redrafted the inland CANUSEAST and CANUSQUE

response plans. Conducted biannual CANUSLANT oil spill response exercise

in St. Andrews, NB. Participated in WMD exercise with US and Canadian

Customs, as well as local/state/provincial response agencies. The scenario involved suspected terrorists detonating an explosive and nerve agent at the border crossing in Houlton, ME. Exercise included Level A entries by ME NG WMD-CST and EPA Region I START.

Recent RRT Activities with Canada

RRT1 Continued Participated in an incident notification and response

coordination workshop sponsored by the St. Croix River Conservation Commission. The workshop was held in response to some incident notification problems identified during a black liquor release from a paper mill in ME.

Recent RRT Activities with Canada RRT2 Promulgated CANUSCENT - ANNEX III in fall 2001 along with RRT5. Exercise scenarios are being discussed. Redrafted the inland CANUSQUE response plan.

RRT5 Promulgated CANUSCENT - Annex III in fall 2001 along with RRT2. Workgroup was composed of representatives from Environment Canada, EPA Regions II and V,

with Great Lakes Commission serving as secretariat. Exercise scenarios are being discussed.

Recent RRT Activities with Canada

RRT5 Continued Participated in Design Team and evaluation of three

CANUSLAK cross-border exercises (one US Coast Guard-led, two Canadian Coast Guard-led).

Provided an OSC facilitator/evaluator for the RRT1 CANUSLANT exercise St. Andrews, NB.

Provided an OSC facilitator/evaluator for the RRT1 CANUSLANT exercise St. Andrews, NB.

Recent RRT Activities with Canada

RRT5 Continued Participated in all scheduled REET meetings,

convened jointly by Environment Canada and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, where REET borders are contiguous with established OPA sub-area planning committees. EPA R5 OSCs serve as the US representatives when schedule permit.

Environment Canada Environmental Emergencies Section Chief for Ontario Region regularly attends RRT5 meetings.

Recent RRT Activities with Canada

RRT5 Continued Environment Canada or Canadian Coast Guard

personnel have been presenters at last three “No Spills” conferences. This is a regional oil spill/hazmat/emergency response planning group composed of reps from Michigan state government and local county emergency response managers from among 26 counties in northern Michigan.

Recent RRT Activities with Canada

RRT8 Working with Environment Canada on the Red River

Sub-Area Contingency Plan. Implemented lessons-learned from a joint response

exercise held in 2001. Currently planning a joint tabletop exercise for the

summer of 2003.

RRT10 Conducted several outreach presentations to

stakeholders on CANUSWEST activities.

Recent RRT Activities with Canada

RRT10 Continued Meeting scheduled for April 2003 with US and

Canadian Customs and Immigration to discuss post 9/11 changes

Working on update to CANUSWEST. Tabletop RJRT exercise and cross-border PIO training

scheduled for 2003.