Massachusetts Geographic Response Plans
This website contains draft and final Geographic Response Plans (GRP) developed to help protect sensitive coastal environments and resources along the Massachusetts coastline in the event of an oil spill into marine waters. GRPs for the state are being developed through a MassDEP Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup project that involves work team members from federal, state and local agencies and seeks community input through outreach meetings. To date, 29 GRPs have been developed for sites in the Cape and Islands and 55 GRPs have been developed for sites in Buzzards Bay. As funding permits, additional GRP projects will be initiated in other coastal areas of Massachusetts.
In addition to the GRPs, meeting materials, process descriptions and other supporting documents are included in the website.
Massachusetts GRP regions:
Mt. Hope Bay
South Shore
Boston
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has contracted with Nuka Research and Planning Group, an oil spill consulting firm with local offices in Plymouth, to facilitate the GRP workgroup and to develop and produce the GRPs.
If you would like to participate in the GRP development process in Massachusetts, please contact Elise DeCola elisedecola@nukaresearch.com and we will add you to our membership list for the GRP Planning Group.
