you ready for me, mr. chairman? yes, mr. roe, we have your statement. it will be included in the record in its entirety. and under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety or summarize, either way. i ll just sort of summarize it. i ll here to provide a frank response to questions regarding exxon valdez oil spill, and to describe our continuing to efforts to deal with its consequences. before this, i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on beha of myself. i really can t tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred. and we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and particularly those in the prince william sound area. that s where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. as has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this, we take full responsibility, and we ve done so from the beginning.
physical problems associated with it make it a difficult problem. in comments about the spill, just to put them in perspective, as we mentioned many times, the spill has been an estimated 240,000 barrels. it occurred early on march 24. we have other factual information. the weather was clear, the ship had no known mechanical difficulties, the course change was requested and authorized because of ice in the outgoing channel. the captain subsequently left the bridge. test sometime after the grounding showed that the captain s alcohol limit is above that required by the coast guard. we are conducting of course not one but many investigations, as are the national transportation safety board and coast guard and other federal and state investigations, also underway and we are dissipating in all of those. the contingency plan was activated immediately and called for a response. first was a responsibility of alaska. the second phase was our responsibility as a shipper and our respons
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