Fourteen named to oil-spill task force

By Steve Miletich
Seattle Times staff reporter

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Locke and U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Jeffrey Garrett called late last month for the creation of a task force to explore ways to better prepare for oil spills and respond to them. Critics have asserted the response to last month's spill in south Puget Sound was too slow, while state and Coast Guard officials said they were hampered by fog and darkness.

The 14-member task force will meet the next two months, with a goal of issuing a final report in January.

Named to the panel were: Kathy Fletcher of People for Puget Sound; Jim English of the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council; Mike Doherty, Clallam County Commissioner; Bobbi Wallace, representing King County Parks & Recreation; Dave Sonnes, vice chairman of the Makah Tribal Council, coordinating with the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission; Julie Knight of Island Oil Spill Association; Bill Dewey of the Puget Sound Council.

Also named were Eric Johnson of the Washington Public Ports Association; Mike Moore of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association; Richard Wright from Clean Sound Oil Spill Response Cooperative; Mike Latorre from Marine Spill Response Corporation; Dave Sawicki from the Western States Petroleum Association; Dale Jensen, spill-prevention and response manager for the Department of Ecology; and Captain Chip Boothe, U.S. Coast Guard, District 1.

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