About Us

NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) is a focal point of mastery in planning for, assessing, and reacting to dangers to waterfront situations, including oil and substance spills, discharges from unsafe waste locales, and marine garbage. To satisfy its main goal of ensuring and reestablishing NOAA trust assets, the Office of Response and Restoration:

Gives logical and specialized help to plan for and react to oil and substance discharges.

Decides harm to characteristic assets from these discharges.

Secures and reestablishes marine and beach front biological systems, including coral reefs.

Works with networks to address basic nearby and local beach front difficulties.

OR&R is involved four divisions: Emergency Response, Assessment and Restoration, Marine Debris, and the Disaster Preparedness Program. All in all, the Office of Response and Restoration gives far reaching answers for marine contamination.

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In case you're a columnist with an inquiry regarding the Office of Response and Restoration and its exercises, it would be ideal if you contact NOAA National Ocean Service Public Affairs, at 301.713.3066 or oceanservicepress@noaa.gov.

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History

The historical backdrop of the Office of Response and Restoration started in 1976 with establishing of the tanker Argo Merchant close Nantucket Shoals in Massachusetts. Exercises gained from that occurrence prompted the advancement of oil and substance spill crisis reaction as we probably am aware it today.