Charlie Crist David Halstead

Governor Situation Report # 42 State Coordinating Officer

Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 1200 hrs EDT
Weather Summary: State Actions:
• Light to moderate southeast winds at 5-15 knots are expected today, but will • State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) is at a Level 1 (Full), operating
turn more to the south Thursday through the weekend. This wind flow may from 0700 to 1800 EDT, with Florida Department of Environmental Protection
continue to push portions of the oil plume towards the Florida Panhandle in the (FDEP) as the lead agency.
next 72 hours; however, near-shore ocean currents are forecast to become • Governor’s Executive Orders 10-99, 10-100, and 10-106 declared a state of
more westerly this week which will help limit the eastward movement of the oil emergency for:
plume and windows of sheen. o Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Bay, and Gulf (10-99)
• Weather conditions will be favorable for recovery operations through the o Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson, Taylor, Dixie, Levy, Citrus, Hernando,
weekend with less than a 20% chance of rain and seas at around 2 feet. Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Sarasota (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. The containment dome is recovering encourage noncommercial fishing in Florida.
approximately 15,000 barrels per day. • Governor’s Executive Order 10-101 established the Gulf Oil Spill Economic
• This event has been designated a Spill of National Significance. Recovery Task Force, which will facilitate efforts by Florida businesses and
• Unified Area Command continues with a comprehensive oil well intervention and industries to recover from the loss of commerce and revenues due to the oil
spill response planning following the April 22 sinking of the Transocean spill.
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. • Governor Charlie Crist activated Florida’s Small Business Emergency Bridge
• More than 24,000 personnel are working the on and offshore response. Loan Program on 6/7/10 to provide emergency, short-term loans to
• Oil-water mix recovered: approximately 16 million gallons established small businesses in 26 designated counties.
• Response vessels available: more than 4,500 • Conducting daily conference calls with county and emergency management
• Response aircraft available: 62 partners, the Federal On-Scene Coordinator, and various Unified Commands.
• Dispersant (in gallons): approximately 1,143,000 deployed SERT Personnel - Location Personnel
• There is no planned use of dispersants in Florida waters. Mobile Unified Command, 23
Forward-State Emergency Response Team
Florida Specific:
Florida Peninsula Command, Miami 5
• Sporadic reports of tarballs and/or areas of light sheen have been confirmed by
St. Petersburg 3
reconnaissance teams from Escambia to Bay County.
Area Command in Robert, Louisiana 3
• Oil Containment Boom (in feet) total: 311,780 deployed in Florida.
Escambia 1
o Tier 1: 146,100 / Tier 2: 123,500
o Tier 3: 42,180 (Deployed by Florida contractors) Gulf 1
• In accordance with established plans, protective booming and boom • ESF 6 – The Agency for Workforce Innovation and Regional Workforce Boards
maintenance is being conducted in the coastal areas of Bay, Escambia, are working in Florida communities to identify and fill jobs related to the Gulf
Franklin, Gulf, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton Counties. Coast Oil Spill.
• According to the NOAA oil plume model, the primary oil plume is 13 miles from • ESF 8 – Syndromic surveillance has been heightened in 6 coastal counties
Pensacola, 100 miles from Gulf County, and 280 miles from St. Petersburg, with from Escambia to Gulf, monitoring for potential health effects.
non contiguous sheens and scattered tarballs closer. NOAA trajectories show • ESF 10 – All State sampling data collected is reported at www.nrdata.org.
direct on-shore impacts of scattered tarballs and light sheen through Friday, • The Small Business Administration has issued an Economic Injury Disaster
mainly near Pensacola and East Bay. • ESF 13 – 34 Florida National Guard (FLNG) personnel on duty; 3 aircraft are
• BP is providing a $100,000 grant through a Memorandum of Understanding with providing air support on-scene in Louisiana through EMAC.
Volunteer Florida to maintain a database for the registration of volunteers: go to • ESF 15 – 12,032 volunteers have registered to respond to Deepwater Horizon.
www.VolunteerFlorida.org and click “Register to Help.” Volunteers and Donations is providing consistent messaging to Florida
• BP issued a $25 million block grant to Florida; first priority is booming. volunteers, “All oil-contaminated materials will be handled by trained, paid
• BP has issued a second $25 million grant to Florida for a national tourism workers and not by volunteers.”
advertising campaign. ESF 18 – Business, Industry, and Economic Development • ESF 16 conducting daily reconnaissance flights and patrolling shoreline from
has launched a national radio and print advertising campaign for Florida tourism. Escambia to Gulf counties for impact. Real time reconnaissance reports are
• BP will issue an additional $25 million to Florida for the state’s preparedness and being entered into the GATOR web mapping application at
response efforts. http://map.floridadisaster.org/gator/.
• 360 vessels are deployed in Florida for the Vessels of Opportunity program. • The Boom Coordination Cell continues to coordinate additional boom requests.
• 224 Qualified Community Responders are actively working the cleanup efforts in • An Innovative Technology Cell is assessing alternative clean-up technologies
the Florida Panhandle. suggested by the public and stakeholders.
• 3 staging areas are in place to protect sensitive shorelines in Florida. • Loan Declaration for the State of Florida.
• The fishery failure declaration for the Gulf of Mexico includes Florida, providing o Disaster Loan Outreach Centers are open in the following counties:
impacted and eligible commercial fisheries the opportunity for federal support; it Bay, Escambia, Gulf, Franklin, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, and
does not close fisheries. Walton.
o Loan Applications:
As of 6/8/10:
 Issued: 239 Accepted: 40 Declined: 12 Approved: 2
BP Claims in Florida Claims Approx. Paid
 Loan amount approved: $255,000.00
Bodily Injury 35 $0
Other 45 $0
Wage Loss 4,454 $2,645,300.76 Local States of Emergency County EOC Activations
• Bay: Expires on 6/10/10 • Bay, Level 2 (Partial)
Loss of Income 3,683 $2,733,480.35
• Dixie: Expires on 6/10/10 • Escambia, Level 2 (Partial)
Total 8,217 $5,378,781.11
• Escambia: Expires on 6/11/10 • Gulf, Level 2 (Partial)
• Franklin: Expires on 6/15/10 • Okaloosa, Level 2 (Partial)
Florida Information Lines
• Gulf: Expires on 6/10/10 • Santa Rosa, Level 2 (Partial)
• The Florida Oil Spill Information Line (FOSIL) is available from 8am-6pm EDT • Okaloosa: Concurrent with State • Wakulla, Level 2 (Partial)
daily at (888) 337-3569. • Santa Rosa: Expires on 6/11/10
• For general health/exposures information questions related to the oil spill, • Sarasota: Expires on 6/15/10
contact the Florida Poison Information Center at 1-800-222-1222. • Wakulla: Expires on 6/15/10
• Two public hotline numbers for oil spill investigation and cleanup: • Walton: Expires on 6/11/10
o Impacted Wildlife: (866) 557-1401
o Oiled Shoreline: 1 (877) 2-SAVE-FL or #DEP for cellular devices
• 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.