Contact Information

• Main OSPR Office - (916) 445-9338
• Executive Staff and Program Managers
• E-mail for questions or additional information
• Report a Spill
• Public Meetings Notice

Popular Ospr pages

• Area Contingency Plans (ACP)
• BRAC/CERCLA
• Casmalia Administrative Order
• COFR Requirements
• Compendium (OSPR)
• Drill Calendar
• Drills, Unannounced
• Financial Responsibility
• Invasive Species
• NRDA / Restoration
• OSCA (Oil Spill Cleanup Agents)
• Regulations (OSPR)
• Report a Stranded Marine Mammal
• SSEP
• Volunteer Program

Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR)

• The Platform "A" DCOR Spill
• OSPR / Chevron Oil Spill Response Technology Workshop
• Response Equipment Grants
• Recent events, publications and other information affecting OSPR and its Mission

Mission:

The mission of Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) is to provide best achievable protection of California's natural resources by preventing, preparing for, and responding to spills of oil and other deleterious materials, and through restoring and enhancing affected resources.

Summary and History of OSPR

On March 24,1989 the EXXON VALDEZ spilled approximately 11 million gallons of crude oil in Alaska.  Less than a year later on February 7, 1990 the AMERICAN TRADER spilled approximately 300,000 gallons of crude oil off Huntington Beach in Southern California.  These events inspired the California Legislature to enact legislation in 1990 called the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act*  The Act covers all aspects of marine oil spill prevention and response in California.  It established an Administrator who is given very broad powers to implement the provisions of the Act.  The Act also gave the State Lands Commission certain authority over marine terminals.  In 1991 the Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) opened, headed by the Administrator. (more)

What We Do

As both a prevention and response organization, the Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) has the Department of Fish and Game’s public trustee and custodial responsibilities for protecting, managing and restoring the State’s fish, wildlife, and plants. It is one of the few State agencies in the nation that has both major pollution response authority and public trustee authority for wildlife and habitat. This mandate ensures that prevention, preparedness, restoration and response will provide the best protection for California’s natural resources.

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*[Stats. 1990, ch. 1248 (S.B. 2040); see CA Government Code §8670.1 et seq., Public Resources Code §8750 et seq., and Revenue & Taxation Code §46001 et seq.]