abstract:According to the National Incident Management System (NIMS), and the Incident Command System (ICS), the Incident Command Post (ICP) is one of five predesignated temporary facilities and signifies the physical location of the tactical-level, on-scene incident command and management organization. It typically comprises the Incident Commander and immediate staff and may include other designated incident management officials and responders from Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies, as well as private-sector, nongovernmental, and volunteer organizations.
When this operation started, we were controlling all skimming and in-situ burning operations out of the IncidentCommandPost in Houma, Louisiana, which has responsibility for the area where the well is at.
But what we did do after the visit down there -- and I talked to the President about this yesterday -- we established specific deputies for the incidentcommandpost in Mobile for Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
In the last week, we have shifted control of skimming assets to the commander and the IncidentCommandPost in Alabama, who is responsible for Mississippi, Alabama and Florida -- and actually have detached a task force to work for him to push out 50 miles offshore and find these smaller patches and try and deal with them before they get to shore.