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Key Point:

“The idea behind the plan is that there will be national readiness to deal with oil spills and that EPA will lead the national readiness. Section 3.1.1 (h) states: Direct planning and preparedness responsibilities of NRT [national Response team] include: (1) Maintaining national preparedness to respond to a major discharge of oil that is beyond regional capabilities”.

My hat is off to Mr. Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit for his important work.
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We have MSRC Marine Spill Response Corporation Vessels standing by for oil spill response. See www.msrc.org. Here's what they have going on this so far.
MSRC - Oil spill response in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon incident 5 May 2010
As you know, we have an unprecedented response going on in the Gulf of Mexico. Currently, we have eight Responder Class vessels from their normal home ports from Delaware Bay to Corpus Christi, Texas actively involved. All are in skimming operations near the incident site with the better weather now after several days of poor overall off-shore conditions. This also includes three of our off-shore barges for lightering the Responder Class vessels. We have also activated the Maine Responder and the New Jersey Responder which are in transit to the Gulf. Additionally, we have both of our dispersant program aircraft, the C130 and the King Air 90 operating and MSRC is acting as overall coordinator for two additional C130s from the Air Force, one additional commercial C130 and five additional spotter King Air 90. We are also overseeing over 1,000 contractor personnel providing shoreline support. Three of our Emergency Communications Packages have also been deployed.
We recognize that all of you are concerned about MSRC's ability to meet your planning requirements throughout our Operating Area. As you can appreciate, this has been a very dynamic situation and we have worked many hours with the USCG in addition to California OSPR and Washington DOE.
So it's not like there isn't a plan in place but...and it's a big but...The vessels can skim oil from the surface but not from beneath the surface and EPA's dispersent spraying just disperses oil so it can't be corraled with booms and skimmed up. Same problem is going to effect Kevin Costner's centrifuges which is actually old technology based on water being heavier than oil you can spin oily water and the out side of the spinning wheel will be water and the inside oil. Costner says one centrifuge can handle 200,000 gallons a day but that counts the water and is a literal drop in the bucket compared to the Gulf of Mexico. might have some use in harbors but dispersants will also negatively effect centrifuges if they are still present.