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<br />PLANNING <br />Fish Kill Investigation Flow Chart <br />Pollution Report <br />Designated investigator (any agency) <br />1-10' 11-1 <br />Oil or hazardous Completes pollution <br />material--notify report form--notify <br />EPA or USCG <br />State Water <br />Quality Agency <br />Oil or hazardous (Conventional pollutants and <br />material in absence of EPA or USCG) <br />On-site coordinator I I On-site coordinator <br />/ Fish killed-- <br />notify <br />I <br />State Fish and Wildlife <br />Resources A en <br />First on-site investigator <br />Area reconnaissance to determine: <br />1. Possible mitigation strategies <br />to limit pollution impact <br />2. Beginning and apparent end points <br />of pollution <br />3. Relative magnitude of the problem <br />Conventional ` <br />. ' pollutants or <br />Oil spills natural causes Hazardous materials <br />I <br />Requisition and place CAUTION! Await arrival <br />materials for initial of designated emergency <br />mitigation. response personnel. <br />Collect preliminary chemical, <br />physical, and biological <br />Complete samples in affected and <br />mitigation unaffected areas to document <br />nature and source of pollutant. <br />EPA or USCG State Water Quality State Fish and Wildlife <br />Agency Agency <br />`Field and laboratory measurements Fish kill count for <br />to determine and document nature resource damage and <br />and source of the pollutant monetary value assessment <br />1 <br />r <br />Regulatoy action <br />Fig. 2.1. Flow chart for coordination and performance of a fish kill investigation (modified from Hill 1983). (Abbre- <br />viations: EPA = U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USCG = U.S. Coast Guard.) <br />I