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Q&A menting our organizational plan not only to strengthen our response capability, but also to meet the new guidelines which actually have been very helpful to our planning.

MR/EN: DEMS is marketing itself as "an alternative to bureaucracy," and "an alternative to the large and expensive U.S. OSROs assem- bled in the early 1990s." How will the company achieve this goal in real terms?

BU: The DEMS management staff is, and will remain, relatively small.

We employ the resources of partic- ipant companies that are entrepre- neurial and cannot afford ineffi- ciency if they want to be success- ful. We know that tank vessel and facility owners also operate in very competitive industries and we don't see any reason why compli- ance with plan citation criteria should be as expensive as it has been. We shall succeed by finding innovations that share a cost-con- scious approach with our cus- tomers.

AAPA Recognizes

Environmentally

Outstanding Ports

The American Association of Port

Authorities (AAPA) has recognized

Canaveral Port Authority and the

Port of Houston Authority for their efforts to improve the environment in and around the ports.

Projects entered by both port authorities were selected for

AAPA's Environmental Improve- ment Awards from a total of 16 entries from 13 ports, which were judged on the following criteria: level and nature of benefits to envi- ronmental quality; beautification or community involvement; level of independent involvement and effort by the port; creativity of the solu- tion or program; whether the pro- ject results are apparent; cost-effec- tiveness of the activity or program; and transferability of the technolo- gy or idea to the port industry.

Florida's Canaveral Port

Authority received an award for

Community/Port Involvement for its Manatee Protection Program.

Key elements of this project include improvements to the Port's fender- ing system, grating stormwater outfalls to prevent manatees from entering stormwater pipelines, and implementation of an educational awareness program for port users.

The Port of Houston Authority won an award for Environmental

Enhancement for its

Demonstration Marsh Creation

Project. In cooperation with the

Army Corps of Engineers, the Port constructed a 220-acre demonstra- tion marsh using criteria developed by an interagency working group.

Information gained throughout the life of the demonstration project will reportedly be used in the devel- opment and management of 4,250 acres of marsh to be created from dredged material from the Houston

Ship Channel.

The awards were scheduled to be presented to respective port man- agers on September 18 in

Vancouver, during the AAPA's 85th

Annual Convention.

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