(Return matching records with ALLANY of these words.)    ................................................................ state Choose State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illiniois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississipi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming District of Columbia    regions Choose region Pacific Southwest Midwest Southeast Northeast Mountain-Prairie Alaska California-Nevada All Regions    ................................................................ ................................................................ Journal Entry   Back Preventing Oil Spill Impacts Continues on the Upper Mississippi River in Minnesota Midwest Region, July 29, 2004 Print Friendly Version Emergency response agencies and industries continue to work together in preventing impacts of spills to fish and wildlife resources in Minnesota. Spill contingency planning and simulated response exercises are useful tools to identify important natural resources and ways to protect them. Contingency planning on the Upper Mississippi River in 2004 has focused on Pool 3 and the St. Croix River. As part of this effort, BP Pipelines, North America, Inc., requested assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in their spill drill exercise July 29 in Hastings, Minn. The exercise scenario involved a pipeline rupture releasing thousands of gallons of an oil and gasoline mixture into the Upper Mississippi River. The Twin Cities Ecological Services Field Office provided Fish and Wildlife Service assistance and coordination with the Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources to identify important migratory bird, fishery, and endangered mussel habitat in the area, as well as recommendations for emergency response actions which would prevent and minimize potential impacts to these resources. The Service also coordinated the trustees? initiation of a small Natural Resource Damage Assessment within the spill scenario to restore those few resources for which unavoidable losses were incurred. BP Pipelines specifically recognized the ?local resource folks? in their exercise evaluation as being critical to achieve maximum resource protection in responding to spills. The Service's Environmental Contaminants Program assists these spill preparedness efforts in Minnesota as a priority to prevent impacts to important fish and wildlife resources. Contact Info: Midwest Region Public Affairs, 612-713-5313, charles_traxler@fws.gov Send to: From: Notes: ..........................................................................................

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