Encyclopedia of Oil Spill Cleanup, Response, and Environmental Restoration - Official Guides and Manuals on Containment, Countermeasures, and Cleanup for Coastlines, Marshes, Wildlife (DVD-ROM)

This electronic book on DVD-ROM provides an encyclopedic collection of up-to-date official documents, guides, manuals, job aids, and reports about every aspect of oil spill cleanup, response, assessment, and environmental restoration. This comprehensive collection of professional, authoritative, fully illustrated documents provides over 30,000 pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF files, with over 60 major individual documents, from NOAA, EPA, U.S. Coast Guard, Interior Department, Fish and Wildlife Service, OSHA, and others. There is coverage of the usage of barriers, booms, cleaners, dispersants, sorbents, manual oil removal, mechanical oil removal, vacuum, sediment reworking and tilling, vegetation cutting and removal, deluge, ambient and hot water flushing, steam cleaning, sand blasting, solidifiers, shoreline cleaning agents, nutrient enrichment, natural microbe seeding, in-situ burning, and other control and containment measures; strategies for marine environments, deepwater, marshes, shorelines, coastlines, coral reefs, inland waters, freshwater environments, coastal habitats, mangroves, and other environments; impacts and cleaning protocols related to wildlife, fish, fisheries, birds, turtles, and other animals; planning and exercises for Spills of National Significance; financial liability issues; information on tarballs, types of crude oil, and open water oil identification; damage assessment procedures; use of tools for trajectory analysis; the history of the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska and bioremediation measures; and much more. Document titles include: EPA Chemical Shoreline Agents for Oil Spills; Guidelines for Bioremediation of Oil Contaminated Salt Marshes; Inland Oil Spills Training Program; Oil Pollution Act; Review on the Use of Commercial Bioremediation Agents; Understanding Oil Spills and Response; Chemical Dispersants for Marine Oil Spills; Bird Care; Characteristics of Response Strategies: Spill Response Planning in Marine Environments; Guidebook Oil Spill Planning under Pollution Control Act and Endangered Species Act; SMART Guidance for Burning and Dispersant Use; Acronyms & Definitions; Choosing Spill Response Alternatives for Characteristic Coastal Habitats; Damage Assessment and Restoration Program - Preassessment, Injury Assessment, Primary Restoration, Restoration Planning, Compensatory Actions; Dispersant Application Observer Job Aid; Sensory Testing and Monitoring of Seafood for Petroleum Taint; Injury Assessment under the Oil Pollution Act; Inland Oil Spills - Options for Minimizing Environmental Impacts of Freshwater Spill Response; Introduction to Coastal Habitats and Biological Resources for Oil Spill Response; Managing Seafood Safety after an Oil Spill; Marine Life Guide; Observers Guide to Sea Ice; Oil and Sea Turtles; Oil Spill Case Histories; Oil Spills in Coral Reefs; Oil Spills in Mangroves; Open Water Oil Identification Job Aid; Pre Assessment Phase Damage Under Oil Pollution Act; Responding to Spills in Coastal Marshes, Fine Line between Help and Hindrance; Selection Guide for Oil Spill Applied Technologies Decision Making; Shoreline Assessment Job Aid; Shoreline Assessment Manual; Shoreline Countermeasures Alaska; Shoreline Countermeasures Manual; Tarballs; Trajectory Analysis Handbook; Training Oil Spill Response Workers; USCG Environmental Protection in Oil Spill Response Planning, Developing Consensus Ecological Risk; USCG Oil Spill Response in Fast Currents.