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Guidelines for presenting claims for clean up and preventive measures

each of the three worksites, ie The Beach, Rocky
The spreadsheets on pages 36 -37 expand the entry
of the summary sheet for item 5 for the fictitious Cove and Cobble Bank shown in spreadsheets 5.1,
company, Marine Pollution Responders (MPR) Ltd., 5.2 and 5.3 respectively, with additional costs added
engaged in shoreline clean up. The spreadsheets to Table 5 for overall management of the three sites.
are a simplified illustration of how a claim might be As noted previously, the rates shown are for
formatted but should be accompanied by a short illustrative purposes only and should not be taken
narrative such as that shown below and supporting as representative of reasonable costs nor would the
documentation identified in paragraph 7.3.5. The first methods described in the narrative necessarily be
spreadsheet shown represents the overall costs for accepted as reasonable measures, depending on
the contractor which are made up of the costs for the circumstances of the incident.

Example Narrative

5. Marine Pollution Responders (MPR) Ltd Numbers were ramped up during the following 35

In the early hours of 12 June the tanker Atanker week and reached daily totals of 120 labourers
went aground in bad weather some three miles on Thursday and Friday, 20 and 21 June but were
northwest of Aport. The vessel was carrying a run down over the second weekend. Following
cargo of medium fuel oil (IFO 180) and reportedly an inspection with the MS Response Agency on
lost some 500 tonnes from one of the cargo tanks. 24 June, a final tidy up and demobilisation was
Oil quickly moved towards the coast and by the completed over the next two days.
same evening had come ashore along some three Rocky Cove
kilometres of a sandy shoreline known locally as MPR mobilised to Rocky Cove on the morning of
The Beach. Overnight on 12/13 June some of this Saturday 15 June using high pressure washing to
oil floated off and moved along the coast to the remove oil from rocks. Labour was used to collect
adjacent Rocky Cove and Cobble Bank. oil released with sorbents mats.
MPR were alerted at midday on 12 June once it Cobble Bank
had become clear that oil would come ashore and An excavator was used to move cobble to the
were contracted by the Member State Response water’s edge to allow ‘surf washing’ to take place.
Agency to provide resources for shoreline cleaning. Sorbent booms were set at the end of the bank
The initial focus was on The Beach but over the to corral floating oil moving along the bank and
weekend MPR was additionally tasked to work on a small work force was used to collect it with
Rocky Cove and Cobble Bank. sorbent mats.

The Beach Enclosures:
MPR initially deployed 45 men increasing to 60 ● MPR Ltd invoice to MS Response Agency
the following day and up to 100 over the weekend. (Shore)
Manpower was used to collect stranded oil into ● MPR Manager’s daily summary report
plastic bags, consolidated into jumbo bags for ● Beach masters daily reports
transport off the beach. Oil floating at the water’s ● Company rate sheet
edge was pumped into portable tanks. Bulk oil was
flushed to collection points with water pumps for ● Daily time sheets The Beach; Rocky Cove;
the diaphragm pumps to transfer into portable Cobble Bank
tanks. Oil separating out in the portable tanks was ● 5t Truck logs
loaded into ten-ton tank trucks for transport to ● 10t Tank truck logs
disposal. ● Invoices for 3rd party supplies