Abskact -The number of large oil spills over the past few years and the subsequent passage of the comprehensive Oil Pollution Act of 1990 have highlighted the needs for oil spill contingency planning and for coordinating spill responses.OILMAP is an oil spill model system which combines several oil spill models and a geographic information system (GIS) within a user-friendly PC-based framewark. It can be easily applied to any location for use as a respoiise and/or planning tool.
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