This seminar will address the ever changing regulatory and operational implications of changes made to OPA '90 since its inception over 20 years ago. Key issues to be discussed include:

• Non-tank vessels
• Limits to liability
• Marine salvage and firefighting plans and implementation
• Exercises - testing the plan
• Emergency response vessels/vessels of opportunity
• Lightering and ship-to-ship transfers
• Safety management systems for offshore

2:00 - 2:30 Registration
Introduction: Clay Maitland- Founding Chairman, NAMEPA

2:30 Compliance with Change - Regulatory and Operational Implications
Seminar Moderator: Rob Lorigan, Overseas Shipholding Group
Panelists:
CHARTERER'S PERSPECTIVE- Lee Jackson, Senior Manager,
Marine Assurance, Valero Transportation Services, Valero Energy Corporation

LEGAL UPDATE- RADM Duncan Smith (Ret.) Blank Rome LLP/LLC
TANK/BARGE OPERATOR VIEW- Jerry Gallion- Corporate Counsel Kirby Corporation

NON-TANK OWNER/OPERATOR 'S POSITION- Capitan Anuj Chopra, President of Anglo Eastern Shipping

OFFSHORE PERSPECTIVE- Alan E. Spackman, International Association of Drilling Contractors

INDUSTRY DRILLS AND EXERCISES- Raymond Lord, Donjon Smit

EMERGENCY RESPONSE VESSELS/VESSELS OF OPPORTUNITY- Matt Hahne, Resolve Marine Group

IMPLEMENTING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE- Scott Jones- Director of Advocacy, Galveston Bay Foundation'

MANAGING THE PROCESS OF CHANGE- Greg Pollock, Deputy Commissioner, Texas General Land Office Oil Spill Prevention & Response Division

REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE- Frank Hawthorne, Oil Spill Planning and Readiness

5:30 Reception