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SPILL RESPONSE

Credit: Spill Control Association the policy side the Bay has a public- success largely duplicated across the private sector Spill Committee that United States. On the other hand, meets monthly. Readiness includes familiarity breeds contempt in much unannounced drills at industrial fa- the same way that complacency tends cilities. A full-scale test of the Area to distract. In as little as 10 years, au-

Contingency Plan is held every four tonomous vessels might transit Tampa years, at a cost of $100,000. Bay, or a hundred places in between.

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