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Documents of Interest
1. Prevention First 2008, An Onshore and Offshore Pollution Prevention Symposium and Technology Exhibition, was held in Long Beach on September 9-10. Speaker presentations from the Marine Invasive Species Program sessions were as follows:
- Andrea Copping, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, "Ballast water treatment technologies: A new facility in the Pacific Northwest" PDF
- Marcel Veldhuis, PhD, and Frank Fuhr, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, "Practical Experience with land-based testing of ballast water treatment systems" PDF
- Mario Tamburri, PhD, Maritime Environmental Resource Center, University of Maryland, "A phased approach to evaluating ballast water treatment systems" PDF
- Nick Welschmeyer, PhD, and Sarah Smith, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, "Ballast tank organisms: Wanted dead - not alive" PDF
- Maurya Falkner, California State Lands Commission, "Recent progress and updates from the Marine Invasive Species Program" PDF
- Chris Scianni, California State Lands Commission, "What the hull is going on: A first look at the fouling related practices of vessels in California" PDF
- Nicole Dobroski, California State Lands Commission, "Implementing California's performance standards: The development of treatment technology testing guidelines and compliance verification protocols" PDF
- Karen Bigham, California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Spill Prevention and Response, "Surveys on non-indigenous species in the coastal waters of California" PDF
- Edward Lemieux (presented by Richard Everett, PhD), Naval Research Laboratory, "Computation fluid dynamics characterization of inline sampling for ballast water discharges" PDF
- Ryan Albert, PhD, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Future permit requirements for vessels" PDF
- Richard Everett, PhD, U.S. Coast Guard, "Challenges and lessons learned from the development of standard protocols for the evaluation of ballast water treatment systems" PDF
Presentations are also available on CD. Please contact staff to receive a copy.
2. Ballast Water Management Fee to Increase August 1, 2008
3. Hull Husbandry Reporting Form
- Letter to Agents PDF Word
- Assembly Bill 740 (Attachment A) PDF Word
- Reporting Form and Instructions (Attachment B) PDF Word
4. Ballast Water Treatment Technology Assessment Final Report
5. Summaries of New Washington State Emergency Regulations
- WAC 220-77-0900C "Ballast Water Management and Control - Reporting and Sampling Requirements" PDF Word
- WAC 220-77-09500A "Interim Ballast Water Discharge Standard Approval Process" PDF Word
6. Final Report on Commercial Vessel Fouling in California PDF Word
7. California Clean Coast Act (SB 771) PDF Word
8. Report on Performance Standards for Ballast Water Discharges in California Waters
- California State Lands Commission Report PDF Word
- Appendix A: Majority Report and Recommendations of the California Advisory Panel on Ballast Water Performance Standards PDF Word
- Appendix B: Ballast Water Discharge Standards, Report and Recommendation of the California Advisory Panel on Ballast Water Performance Standards, Minority Report PDF Word
- Appendix C: Minority Position Letter submitted by The Ocean Conservancy PDF Word
9. Regulations
10. Sample Ballast Water Management Plan
11. Sample Ballast Log
12. Ballast Water Reporting Form
13. West Coast Regional Applied Ballast Management Research and Demonstration Project.
Questions or to request a copy of the final reports, contact Nicole Dobroski
dobrosn@slc.ca.gov or (916) 574-0742 PDF Word
14. Ballast Water Performance Standards Advisory Group
- First Meeting Notes, March 7, 2005 PDF Word
- Second Meeting Notes, April 27, 2005 PDF Word
- Third Meeting Notes, June 22, 2005 PDF Word
- Fourth Meeting Notes, July 13, 2005 PDF Word
- Fifth Meeting Notes, August 8, 2005 PDF Word
15. California Ballast Water Legislation: January 1, 2004
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