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Situation Update NOAA Evening Report 27 Aug 89

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS BASED ON THE MOST CURRENT DATA PROVIDED TO NOAA.

EVENING REPORT VALDEZ:

NOAA met with Dames & Moore to discuss the biological portion of the oil
productivity study.  The potential damage of high- pressure, hot water cleaning
was also discussed.  Kennedy, Galt, Michel, and Walker met with Exxon to plan
logistics to support Exxon's winter operations plan.  Kennedy coordinated the
identification and removal of a dead gray whale from the Corexit site at Smith
Island.  Today was the first time in five days that weather permitted fishery
surveillance overflights and oil productivity fieldwork to take place.  The
fisheries overflight identified rainbow oil sheens in two locations: just
outside the entrance to the Esther Bay andn outside of East Twin Bay, Perry
Island.  Neither sheen was determined as sufficient to warrant closure of the
fisheries by ADF&G.   

KODIAK (Baxter): Weather delayed flight operations until the afternoon.
Shoreline inspection focused today on Perendsa Bay.  Plans For Tomorrow Baxter
will inspect beaches in Marmot Bay or meet with ADEC and ADF&G to discuss winter
shoreline programs.   

PERSONNEL ON-SCENE:
Valdez: Kennedy, Galt, Michel, Walker, Harris, Lindsay, Plaus, Henry, Wong, Van
Den Berg, Shaw, Christopherson, Trofimczuk  
Homer:  Wescott  
Kodiak: Baxter  
ARRIVALS Christopherson