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June 24th, 2010 8:10 AM

Florida Specific:

? Escambia County has posted a Health Advisory this morning from Alabama State

Line east to Escambia Pier (Roughly 26 Miles).

? Today, June 23, mousse was discovered between the Pensacola Beach Pier and

the ranger station near Fort Pickens gate, approximately three miles in Length.

Cleanup crews are on site.

? Dime to five inch-sized tar balls and tar patties continue to be found in northwest

Florida.

? Perdido Pass, Pensacola Pass and Destin Pass will be closed with the tide to

reduce the amount of oil from entering inland waters. Boom will be deployed across

each Pass at flood tide (incoming) and removed at ebb tide (outgoing).

? Oil Containment Boom (in feet) total: 557,261 deployed in Florida.

o Tier 1: 221,700 / Tier 2: 132,800 / Tier 3: 202,761

? In accordance with established plans, protective booming, staging, and boom

maintenance is being conducted along the coast from Escambia to Franklin.

? 397 vessels are deployed in Florida for the Vessels of Opportunity program.

? 694 Qualified Community Responders are actively working the cleanup efforts in

the Florida Panhandle.

? According to the NOAA oil plume model, the oil plume is 5 miles from Pensacola,

38 miles from Mexico Beach and 244 miles from St. Petersburg. NOAA near shore

trajectories are showing direct onshore impacts to the Walton-Bay County line

through Friday, with the uncertainty line extending as far as Panama City Beach.

? In addition to $100,000 for Volunteer Florida to maintain a volunteer registration

database, BP has issued over $75 million in grants to Florida for booming.

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