This repository contains documents related to oil spill responses coordinated by the US Coast Guard (USCG). The documents are being provided on a rolling basis by USCG to the Data Liberation Project, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
The documents can be found in the docs/ directory, which currently contains the following file(s):
NPFC_CM_00339_Release_01_Redacted.pdf- 150 pages
- Includes documents for these Federal Project Numbers:
UCGPG23001,UCGPJ23004,UCGPN23007,UCGPP23002.
These files are provided exactly as USCG provided them to the Data Liberation Project. USCG's FOIA office says that they will continue to provide documents on a rolling basis, 150 pages at a time.
The Data Liberation Project has also compiled spreadsheet overview of documents present within the PDF files: documents.csv. This spreadsheet contains the following columns:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
file |
The name of the PDF file in which the document appears. |
page_start |
The page, within that PDF, on which the document begins. |
page_end |
The page on which the document ends. |
type |
The type of document (e.g., Authorization to Proceed, IRAT, Invoice, etc. |
date |
The date of the document (not necessarily the date of the referenced event). |
fpn |
The Federal Project Number of the relevant spill, either explicitly listed on the document or inferred from context. |
notes |
Additional contextual notes, such as the name of the listed contractor. |
The PDFs in docs/ directory can be considered public domain and are provided without restriction. All other data files have been generated by the Data Liberation Project and are available under Creative Commons’ CC BY-SA 4.0 license terms. This repository’s code is available under the MIT License terms.