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Refugio oil spill sparks federal resource reshuffling

By Alex Kacik / Friday, February 19th, 2016 / Comments Off on Refugio oil spill sparks federal resource reshuffling

The corroded sections of Line 901 have been replaced. Santa Barbara County was not well equipped to handle a catastrophe like the Refugio oil spill, federal officials said, but authorities have since scaled up the region’s resources. The county was not high up on the U.S. Coast Guard’s priority list, according to U.S. Coast Guard…

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