Topic: Build capacity for addressing concerns about increased shipping and oil spills. (View All Topics in the Plan)
Learn how other villages have worked with shipping companies to route activities away from subsistence areas.
Advocate for Alaska Native priorities for marine issues.
Communicate priorities, best practices, and recommended codes of conduct to the Arctic Waterways Safety Committee (AWSC), which is developing guidelines...
Provide input into the Northwest Arctic Subarea Contingency Plan to ensure tribal concerns for oil spill planning and response are...
Obtain materials for local responses to oil spills.
Continue to provide local responder training for oil spills.
Seek funding by writing grants (Environmental Protection Agency, AK Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Coast Guard, & Norton Sound Economic Development...