Charlie Crist David Halstead

Governor Situation Report # 40 State Coordinating Officer

Monday, June 7, 2010 at 1200 hrs EDT
Weather Summary: State Actions:
• Moderate southwest winds over the weekend resulted in a northeastward • State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) is at a Level 1 (Full), operating
movement of oil sheen and tarballs toward the western Panhandle. from 0700 to 1800 EDT, with Florida Department of Environmental
• A rare June cold front will move slowly through the northern Gulf Coast today, Protection (FDEP) as the lead agency.
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which will shift winds to a westerly direction today before shifting to the north Governor’s Executive Orders 10-99, 10-100, and 10-106 declared a state of
tonight. This may temporarily abate northward-moving oil, although ocean emergency for:
currents may still push some surface or sub-surface oil towards Florida. o Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Bay, and Gulf (10-99)
• Southerly winds will quickly re-establish across the region Tuesday through the o Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, Citrus,
end of the week. Chances for rain and choppy seas will decrease over the next Hernando, Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Sarasota
3-4 days, promoting a greater recovery of surface oil. (10-100)
o Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm
Current Situation: Beach (10-106)
• Florida beaches are open. • Governor’s Executive Order 10-115 authorizes the Florida Fish and Wildlife
• Unified Area Command estimates release rate of oil from Deepwater Horizon at Conservation Commission to designate Free Saltwater Fishing Days to
12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day. encourage noncommercial fishing in Florida.
• This event has been designated a Spill of National Significance. • Governor’s Executive Order 10-101 established the Gulf Oil Spill Economic
• Unified Area Command continues with a comprehensive oil well intervention and Recovery Task Force, which will facilitate efforts by Florida businesses and
spill response planning following the April 22 sinking of the Transocean industries to recover from the loss of commerce and revenues due to the oil
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. spill.
• As of 6/6/10: • Conducting daily conference calls with county and emergency management
• More than 20,000 personnel are working the on and offshore response. partners, the Federal On-Scene Coordinator, and various Unified
• Oil-water mix recovered: approximately 15.48 million gallons Commands.
• Response vessels in use: more than 2,700 Location Personnel
• Dispersant (in gallons): approximately 1,082,000 deployed / 240,000 available Mobile Unified Command, 21
• There is no planned use of dispersants in Florida waters. Forward-State Emergency Response Team
Florida Peninsula Command, Miami 5
Florida Specific:
St. Petersburg 2
• Reports of tarballs and/or areas of light sheen have been confirmed from
Escambia County to Walton County. 2,642 personnel are actively cleaning the
beaches. • 2 SERT liaisons have been deployed to Gulf and Escambia Counties today.
• Oil Containment Boom (in feet) total: 431,075 deployed in Florida. • ESF 13 – 33 Florida National Guard (FLNG) personnel on duty; 3 aircraft are
o Tier 1: 148,475 / Tier 2: 282,600 providing air support on-scene in Louisiana through EMAC.
• In accordance with established plans, protective booming and boom • ESF 16 conducting daily reconnaissance flights and 25 (1 person) ATVs
maintenance is being conducted in the coastal areas of Bay, Escambia, patrolling Florida’s shoreline from Escambia County to Gulf County for impact.
Franklin, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton Counties. • ESF 15 – 8,290 registered volunteers; 2,676 volunteers have completed
• According to the NOAA oil plume model, the primary oil plume is less than 5 11,564 hours for pre-impact beach clean ups in response to Deepwater
miles from Pensacola, 85 miles from Gulf County, and 260 miles from St. Horizon. Volunteers and Donations is providing consistent messaging to
Petersburg, with non contiguous sheens and scattered tarballs closer. NOAA Florida volunteers, “All oil-contaminated materials will be handled by
trajectories continue to indicate tarballs and areas of light sheen may impact the trained, paid workers and not by volunteers.”
beaches of the Florida Panhandle through Wednesday with direct impacts most • ESF 8 – Syndromic surveillance is active in 6 coastal counties in the Florida
likely remaining west of Choctawhatchee Bay Panhandle, monitoring for potential health effects.
• BP is providing a $100,000 grant through a Memorandum of Understanding with • The Boom Coordination Cell continues to coordinate additional boom
Volunteer Florida to maintain a database for the registration of volunteers: requests.
http://www.1-800-volunteer.org/1800Vol/volunteerflorida/viewEventDetails.do? • An Innovative Technology Cell is assessing alternative clean-up technologies
eventId=31601 suggested by the public and stakeholders.
• BP issued a $25 million block grant to Florida; first priority is booming. • ESF 10 – All State sampling data being collected along the Gulf coastline is at
• BP has issued a second $25 million grant to Florida for a national tourism www.nrdata.org.
advertising campaign. ESF 18 – Business, Industry, and Economic Development • The Small Business Administration has issued an Economic Injury Disaster
has launched a national radio and print advertising campaign for Florida tourism. Loan Declaration for the State of Florida.
• 286 vessels have been deployed in Florida for the Vessels of Opportunity o Disaster Loan Outreach Centers have been opened in the following
program. counties: Bay, Escambia, Gulf, Franklin, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa,
• 3 staging areas are in place to protect sensitive shorelines in Florida. Wakulla, and Walton.
• At the request of Governor Crist, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce expanded o Loan Applications:
the fishery failure declaration for the Gulf of Mexico to include Florida on  Issued: 190 Accepted: 34 Declined: 10 Approved: 2
6/2/10. This declaration provides impacted and eligible commercial fisheries  Loan amount approved: $255,000.00
the opportunity for federal support; it does not close fisheries.
BP Claims in Florida Claims Approx. Paid Local States of Emergency County EOC Activations
Bodily Injury 30 $0 • Bay: Expires on 6/10/10 • Bay, Level 2 (Partial)
Wage Loss 4,049 $2,434,830.20 • Dixie: Expires on 6/10/10 • Escambia, Level 2 (Partial)
Loss of Income 3,488 $2,486,067.25 • Escambia: Expires on 6/11/10 • Gulf, Level 2 (Partial)
Total 7,567 $4,920,897.45 • Franklin: Expires on 6/8/10 • Okaloosa, Level 2 (Partial)
• Gulf: Expires on 6/10/10 • Santa Rosa, Level 2 (Partial)
Florida Information Lines • Okaloosa: Concurrent with State • Wakulla, Level 2 (Partial)
• The Florida Oil Spill Information Line (FOSIL) is available from 8am-6pm EDT • Santa Rosa: Expires on 6/11/10
daily at (888) 337-3569. • Sarasota: Expires on 6/7/10
• For general health/exposures information questions related to the oil spill, • Wakulla: Expires on 6/7/10
contact the Florida Poison Information Center at 1-800-222-1222. • Walton: Expires on 6/11/10
• Mobile Unified Command has established two public hotline numbers for oil
spill investigation and cleanup:
o Impacted Wildlife: (866) 557-1401
o Oiled Shoreline: (866) 448-5816
• The Florida Department of State has established a hotline for archeological,
historical preservation, and tribal lands that may be impacted by the Deepwater
Horizon incident: (850) 245-6530.