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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016
Brown wants annual toxics
reports from Oregon schools
West Coast states meet to
share spill-response efforts
By PHOUNG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Washington
state and Oregon environ-
mental regulators said Tues-
day that regional coordina-
tion and planning exercises
such as drills aided in their
response to the fiery train
derailment along the Colum-
bia River earlier this month.
The Northwest offi-
cials briefed their counter-
parts from other states on
the June train accident in
Mosier at the annual meet-
ing of the Pacific States/
British Columbia Oil Spill
Task Force in Seattle.
The task force — consist-
ing of members from British
Columbia, Alaska, Washing-
ton state, Oregon, Califor-
nia and Hawaii — collects
and shares data on oil spills,
works together on oil spill
prevention projects and pro-
motes regulatory safeguards.
They were in Seattle to
share knowledge and update
each other on their spill
response programs and other
projects.
Dale Jensen, Washing-
ton’s Ecology spills pro-
gram manager, says the Ore-
gon derailment is a reminder
of how vulnerable the region
is to oil spills and under-
scores the need for states
and federal agencies to con-
tinue to work together to
improve spill prevention and
response.
In British Columbia, reg-
ulators said they have effec-
tively used drones to assess
the extent of a tanker truck
crash that spilled diesel
fuel near Mount Robson
National Park. Wes Shoe-
maker, Deputy Minister of
British Columbia Ministry
of Environment, said drones
can be an effective tool to
assess downstream effects of
a spill.
Bruce Gilles, who man-
ages the Oregon Department
of Environmental Quali-
ty’s cleanup and emergency
response program, told the
meeting that “we couldn’t
have been luckier” during
the Oregon derailment.
Strong winds typically
blow through the Columbia
River Gorge but not that day
the trains derailed, with four
cars catching fire. He also
said that there are sections
of the railroad that runs adja-
cent to the river, but the train
crashed in an area that was
farther away from the river.
Just several months ear-
lier, more than a dozen
Search suspended for
missing man in the river
The Daily Astorian
The search has been sus-
pended for 22-year-old Taufu’i
Taliauli, a resident of the terri-
tory of American Samoa, who
was tying off the ishing vessel
Lady Valerie Monday morning
when he was pinned between
the dock and vessel and fell
into the river.
Deputy Chief Eric Halv-
erson of the Astoria Police
Department said the search
was suspended Monday night,
and Taliauli was listed as a
missing person.
The Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Ofice dive team might go
back out at some point to con-
tinue searching for the body,
Halverson said.
PORTLAND — Conser-
vation groups are seeking to
have the marbled murrelet
listed as endangered under the
Oregon Endangered Species
Act, and also want the state
to identify and protect forest
sites considered vital to the
bird’s survival.
The marbled murrelet was
listed as threatened in the
1990s and habitat protection
has meant less logging in the
Northwest. The tiny seabirds
venture inland to raise their
young and — like the spotted
owl — depend on old-growth
forests for nesting.
Nick Cady is the legal
director for Cascadia Wild-
lands. He contends the state
hasn’t taken meaningful steps
to protect murrelets, and log-
ging activity on Oregon forests
has sped the decline of breed-
ing habitat.
On Tuesday, Cascadia
Wildlands and other groups
petitioned the state Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife to
list the bird as endangered.
A separate petition asks the
Board of Forestry to protect
forest sites.
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PORTLAND — Oregon’s
197 school districts could
spend summer break crafting
procedures for testing lead,
radon and other chemicals at
their campuses ahead of Oct.
1, when the plans would be
handed over to the state.
These “Healthy and
Safe Facilities Plans” were
announced Tuesday by Gov.
Kate Brown, who said she
directed the state Department
of Education to draft require-
ments for testing and monitor-
ing the health safety of campus
buildings that otherwise don’t
exist for schools at the state or
federal level.
Brown’s directive comes
after last month’s disclosure
of high lead levels found in
drinking water at two Port-
land schools, igniting commu-
nity outcry at a time when the
Flint, Michigan, water scandal
has brought national attention
to the issue.
The Department of Educa-
tion will discuss the draft rules
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian
A water fountain is covered because of lead in the drink-
ing water at Creston Elementary School in Portland.
during its next meeting Thurs-
day, and is accepting the pub-
lic’s input through Aug. 17.
“Any threat to the health and
safety of a child in any school
or classroom is unacceptable,”
Brown said in a statement, add-
ing that as state-level agencies
respond to the crisis, “local
school districts and public
charter schools also have the
obligation to ensure transpar-
ency and accountability to par-
ents and communities.”
Under the preliminary
rules, school districts would
submit plans for testing water,
air quality and hazardous waste
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and radon speciically — with
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High lead levels
found at two
Portland schools
agencies participated in a
national oil-spill response
drill that was based on a sce-
nario where a landslide had
caused a 100-unit oil train
to spill about 450,000 gal-
lons of oil into the Columbia
River between Washington
and Oregon.
Jensen highlighted the
dramatic changes in the way
oil is shipped through Wash-
ington state, noting an uptick
in rail transport of oil. In
2011, no Bakken crude oil
was shipped by rail com-
pared with about 2.55 billion
gallons in 2015.
Washington lawmakers
last year passed legislation
requiring railroads to come
up with oil spill contingency
plans; it also require facil-
ities that receive oil to pro-
vide the state with advance
notice of oil shipments. New
rules are expected later this
year.
California also has a sim-
ilar oil spill contingency
planning requirement for
railroads.
“What we get out of this
is new knowledge,” Jensen
said. “We’re always looking
ahead. We’re always antici-
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and working very, very hard
to be as prepared as we can.”
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