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<text id=90TT2129>
<title>
Aug. 13, 1990: American Notes:Disasters
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 13, 1990 Iraq On The March
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 49
American Notes
DISASTERS
The Goo Keeps Flowing
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<body>
<p> More than a year after the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million
gal. of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, the U.S.
still lacks the ability to cope speedily with such disasters.
That shortcoming was dramatically illustrated last week when
a Greek tanker crashed into three oil barges in the Houston
Ship Channel near Galveston. Though Houston handles more crude
oil than any other U.S. port, no fast-response cleanup team is
stationed in Texas. By the time emergency crews from along the
Gulf Coast arrived, 500,000 gal. of crude had leaked into the
relatively shallow Galveston Bay, threatening shrimp, oysters,
crabs and birds.
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<p> After the accident Congress passed a bill that had been
languishing for years until the Alaskan catastrophe. Among
other provisions, it establishes a $1 billion oil-cleanup fund
and sets up 10 quick-response teams, one in each Coast Guard
district. The action came too late for Galveston Bay.
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