On November 29, 2018, the Board of Directors of the Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council met in Anchorage, Alaska to update the Council’s performance against the existing 5-year strategic plan and consider modifying that plan for the future.
The Board noted progress in achieving priority goals set out in 2013 and modified the existing 5-Year Strategic Plan, with the goal of making broader revisions in 2019.
Status of Priority Council Goals
Five years ago, we set out to accomplish a set of goals as part of our Strategic Plan. We were gratified to see we’ve met most of them, including:
- Changes and amendments to OPA 90 to improve CIRCAC funding formula; providing more certainty to achieve our long term goals
- Comprehensive Cook Inlet Navigation Risk Assessment
- Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee (a priority recommendation of the Navigation Risk Assessment).
- Harvest Alaska’s decision to build a Cross-Inlet Subsea Pipeline to replace crude oil tankers transporting oil from Drift River; which we advocated for in our 2012 Drift River Oil Terminal Position Paper, and which was subsequently supported by the Cook Inlet Navigational Risk Assessment
- Obtained funding and Initiated first steps for a Cook Inlet Pipeline Infrastructure Risk Assessment
- Compiled detailed habitat data for all shorelines in our areas of concern; continued integration with Alaska ShoreZone and AOOS; and actively facilitating use of ShoreZone imagery and data in oil spill planning and response
- Partnership with Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) to make CIRCAC data more available and integrated with other spatial data; examples include the integrated layers in the Cook Inlet Response Tool, the Geographic Response Information Database (GRID), and compilation of Cook Inlet oceanographic and contaminant data for on-line access (ongoing).
NOTE: Former “Goals” in the previous Strategic Plan become “Strategies”.
It is the Council’s objective to review its Long Range Plan every year.
Click here to download the 2014-2019 Strategic Plan.
