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The States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force
Spill and Incident Data Collection and Sharing Agreement
Adopted July 15, 1997

The West Coast States and British Columbia are committed to improving their ability to prevent oil spills to our marine environment. In order to reach this goal, it is necessary to improve access to data on spill events, near-miss incidents, and the causes contributing to such events and incidents. Therefore, Task Force Members agree to take the following steps, as recommended by the Spill and Incident Data Collection Project Workgroup in the attached report:


•		Members agree that their agencies will incorporate the terms and logic framework of the attached Spill and Incident Reporting Data Collection Dictionary into their data collection systems by January 1, 1998, or as soon as possible thereafter.
•		Members agree that staff from their agencies will participate in investigator training session specific to use of this data dictionary prior to implementation.
•		Members agree to begin submitting data to the Task Force office for compilation on a quarterly basis following implementation.

This agreement is adopted pursuant to, and follows the intent of, the Oil Spill Memorandum of Cooperation of 1989 and is adopted by the States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force as represented by the following Members¹:

Signed July 15, 1997 by Michele Brown, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

Signed July 15, 1997 by Tom Fitzsimmons, Director, Washington Department of Ecology

Signed July 15, 1997 by Langdon Marsh, Director, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

Signed July 15, 1997 by Pete Bontadelli, Administrator, California Office of Spill Prevention and Response, Department of Fish and Game

The State of Hawaii joined the Oil Spill Task Force under a revised Memorandum of Cooperation signed by the five West Coast governors and the Premier of British Columbia in June of 2001. Pursuant to that revised Memorandum, the Spill and Incident Data Collection and Sharing Agreement was signed by Laurence Lau, Deputy Director, the Hawaii Department of Health on March 22, 2004. Signed July 15, 1997 by

(Signatures are on file at the Pacific States/British Columbia Oil Spill Task Force office)

¹The British Columbia Ministry of Environment is not currently the Provincial agency authorized to maintain spill data in British Columbia and therefore has not been able to participate in this project.