1. Recent RRT Activities with Canada RRT1  Redrafts of inland CANUSEAST and CANUSQUE (along with RRT2 ) plans to be finalized soon.  CANUSLANT updated in May.  Annual Joint Response Team (JRT) Meeting conducted in November.  Reviewing JRT membership under new Marine Joint Contingency Plan (JCP).  Biannual CANUSLANT Exercise has been postponed until 2005 due to competing port security and special event (DNC/RNC) workload.

2. Recent RRT Activities with Canada RRT1 Continued  Plan to continue cross-border workshop series: - Focused on environmental/priority areas in 2003. - Workshops on fisheries/aquaculture, wildlife, and modeling planned for the future.

3. Recent RRT Activities with Canada RRT2  Working with RRT5 to develop exercise scenarios to test CANUSCENT - ANNEX III.  Finalized redraft of redraft the inland CANUSQUE response plan with RRT1. RRT5  Communication among EPA, Environment Canada, USCG, and Canadian Coast Guard continues to be frequent, open, and during incidents, essentially immediate.  The Joint preparedness Team meets twice a year and representative from Environment Canada regularly attends all RRT5 meetings.

4. Recent RRT Activities with Canada RRT5 Continued  Regional Environmental Emergency Teams, convened jointly by Environment Canada and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, include as formal members the pre-designated EPA OSC for the contiguous OPA sub-area planning committee.  Promulgated the updated Joint Marine Contingency Plan in May, 2003.  Planning exercises to test the notification and coordination protocols of the CANUSCENT and CANUSLAK plans.

5. Recent RRT Activities with Canada RRT8  In February, 2003 conducted a functional exercise with Environment Canada, R5, and the states of MN and ND.  Scenario involved a pipeline rupture resulting in the discharge of oil to the Red River during flood stage.  Exercise pointed out that all response personnel must carry driver’s license and or passport and birth certificates to facilitate border crossings.

6. Recent RRT Activities with Canada RRT10  Activated CANUSWEST for information sharing during TOPOFF 2  Met with US and Canadian Customs and Immigration to discuss post 9/11 changes.  Finalizing CANUSWEST-North portion addressing the Alaska/Canada border region.  Developing CANUSWEST web site.  Signed CANUSPAC annex in August 2003.  Planning full scale exercise of the CANUSPAC annex and JRT (May 04) with US and Canadian contractors, testing customs and immigrations policies.  Developing a Wildlife Workgroup to develop a plan for response to cross-border wildlife issues.  Discussing combining some of the annexes in the northwest.