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    • NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration: Historical Oil and Chemical Spill Incidents Database

    Metadata Updated: October 31, 2024

    The Historical Incidents database contains reports and images from oil and chemical spills that occurred between 1968 and 2002. The database includes reports on incidents to which NOAA responded, as well as some significant incidents in which NOAA was not involved. The database includes mainly U.S. incidents, but also significant incidents that occurred elsewhere. Generally, it includes incidents that occurred either in navigable waters (including large freshwater bodies such as the U.S. Great Lakes) or in coastal waters, but does not include inland incidents.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date February 29, 2024
    Metadata Created Date October 31, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date October 31, 2024
    Reference Date(s) 2003 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update asNeeded

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NOS ORR

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date February 29, 2024
    Metadata Created Date October 31, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date October 31, 2024
    Reference Date(s) 2003 (publication)
    Responsible Party (Point of Contact, Custodian)
    Contact Email
    Guid gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:40830
    Access Constraints Cite As: Office of Response and Restoration, [Date of Access]: NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration: Historical Oil and Chemical Spill Incidents Database [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/40830., Access Constraints: None, Use Constraints: Hotline Reports are short reports that were posted to NOAA's "Hotline" email system during an incident response. Hotline is an internal system used by NOAA responders and their colleagues to communicate during an incident. Examples of Hotline reports include daily situation reports, summaries of resources at risk, predicted trajectories (of spilled oil or other hazardous materials), and weather and tide predictions. Many incidents for which Hotline reports were generated are summarized in a final report (with a subject title of "Report - Final"). Typical subject titles for Hotline reports include "Report - Weather", "Report - Situation", and "Report - Trajectory." Especially in the case of a significant incident, there may be many hotline reports in the Historical Incidents database related to a single incident.Important note concerning the NOAA "HOTLINE" Communications System: this system is used for NOAA internal communications and the reports are put in chronologically. There is NO corrective "post editing" of the reports. As a result of this, early reports may have information that later proved to be incorrect. Sometimes these errors are corrected in a later report, but sometimes corrections are made over the phone or in-person, and no correcting message is entered. This reflects the use of this system as a real-time spill communications system and is not intended to be an event-log., Distribution Liability: Users must assume responsibility to determine the appropriate use of these data.
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    Bbox North Lat 57
    Bbox South Lat -65
    Bbox West Long -180
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update asNeeded
    Harvest Object Id 9a9bd803-4dde-433a-a0f3-d7d164b1ad3c
    Harvest Source Id 16d8de29-951c-4a91-bada-75c7593e9406
    Harvest Source Title NOS ORR
    Licence NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
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    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Progress underDevelopment
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 1968

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