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  • CREW: NOAA: Regarding BP Oil Spill: 4/3/2012 - NOAA Response Letter

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    On May 19, 2010, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and Greenpeace sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to four agencies, seeking copies of the video feeds of the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and other documents related to efforts to mitigate or clean up the oil spill. The requests were sent to the U.S. Coast Guard, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CREW and Greenpeace are seeking the feeds and records related to them to allow scientists to determine how much oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly a month. Estimates have varied widely, with BP executives initially claiming the equivalent of 5,000 barrels a day, while others who have reviewed a short segment of a video feed are calculating a significantly higher amount.

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    On May 19, 2010, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and Greenpeace sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to four agencies, seeking copies of the video feeds of the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and other documents related to efforts to mitigate or clean up the oil spill. The requests were sent to the U.S. Coast Guard, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CREW and Greenpeace are seeking the feeds and records related to them to allow scientists to determine how much oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly a month. Estimates have varied widely, with BP executives initially claiming the equivalent of 5,000 barrels a day, while others who have reviewed a short segment of a video feed are calculating a significantly higher amount.

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    CREW: NOAA: Regarding BP Oil Spill: 4/3/2012 - NOAA Response Letter

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    CREW
    On May 19, 2010, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and Greenpeace sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to four agencies, seeking copies of the video feeds of the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and other documents related to efforts to mitigate or clean up the oil spill. The requests were sent to the U.S. Coast Guard, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CREW and Greenpeace are seeking the feeds and records related to them to allow scientists to determine how much oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly a month. Estimates have varied widely, with BP executives initially claiming the equivalent of 5,000 barrels a day, while others who have reviewed a short segment of a video feed are calculating a significantly higher amount.

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    UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE Silver Spring, MO 20910

    APR
    Ms. Anne Weisrnann CREW 1400 Eye St. NW, Suite 450 Washington, DC 20005 Greenpeace 702 H St., NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 Re:

    32012

    Fourth interim response for FOIA Request # 20 10-00377

    Dear Ms. Weismann: This letter is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request # 2010-00377 dated May 19, 2010, and received by our office on May 20, 2010. You specifically requested: 1. Copies of any and all video feeds that capture in whole or in part any aspect of the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (BP oil spill), including, but not limited to, the ongoing live video feed of the BP oil spill provided by BP as referenced in Brian Ross, BP Releases Oil Spill Video After Pressure From White House and Media, ABC News May 12, 2010, available at http:!/abcnews.go.corn/Blotterthp-releases oil spill- video-pressure-white-house/story?id= 10629165; and 2. All document that mention, refer, or relate to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) communications concerning the use of dispersants in the course of any efforts to mitigate or clean up the BP oil spill, including, but not limited to, all internal NOAA communications as well as all communications to, by, or from NOAA to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior, BP, Halliburton, or Transocean regarding the use of dispersants in the course of any efforts to mitigate or clean up the BP oil spill. Our search within the NOAAs National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) Office of Habitat Conservation (OHC), and the National Ocean Services Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) located 3,596 pages of documents which are responsive to your request. Enclosed is the fourth interim response consisting of: 3,596 pages from NOAAs OHC and ORR, which contain portions of records that have been determined to be exempt from disclosure (under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(6); this protects information that would cause a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy), and have been redacted.

    On May 16, 2011, NMFS provided you with the third interim release of 1,638 pages.
    Printed on Recycled Paper

    We are continuing to search for records responsive to your request, and we will forward additional records to you as soon as possible. If you have any questions regarding this request, please contact Mike Justen, NMFS National FOTA Officer, 301-427-8739. Sincerely,

    Jeff Shenot Office of Habitat Conservation FOIA Coordinator Enclosures (electronic copy)

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