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6.1. D. - Page 5 relief, evacuation, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in the event of a maritime emergency; and WHEREAS, it is necessary and desirable that an automatic aid agreement be executed for the interchange of such immediate aid on a local, countywide, and regional basis. NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY AGREED by and between each and all Parties hereto as follows: 1. Local Maritime O�erational Plan. Each Party shall develop a plan providing for the effective mobilization of all its resources and facilities, both public and private, to respond to maritime emergencies that may occur within its jurisdiction. Such local plans will be incorporated into a San Francisco Bay Area Region Maritime Emergency Operational Plan by the United States Coast Guard Sector San Francisco for implementation and support of the various federal and state plans noted above. Additionally, the San Francisco Bay Area Region Maritime Emergency Operational Plan may include provisions for training and testing to make such automatic aid effective. 2. Automatic Aid. Each Party agrees to furnish resources and equipment and agrees to render services to each and every other Party to this agreement to prevent and mitigate maritime emergencies, regardless of type, in accordance with a duly adopted San Francisco Bay Area Region Maritime Emergency Operational Plan, whether heretofore or hereafter adopted, detailing the method and manner by which such resources, facilities, and any services are to be made available and furnished. However, no Party shall be required, under this Agreement, or the duly adopted San Francisco Bay Area Region Maritime Emergency Operational Plan, to deploy so much of its own resources, facilities and/or services while furnishing such automatic aid that it compromises its abiliry and capacity to protect its jurisdiction and respond to calls for service within its jurisdiction. It is expressly understood that this Agreement and the operational plans adopted pursuant thereto shall not supplant existing agreements between some of the Parties hereto providing for the exchange or furnishing of certain rypes of facilities and services on a reimbursable, exchange, or other basis, but that the automatic aid extended under this Agreement and the operational plans adopted pursuant thereto, shall be without reimbursement unless otherwise expressly provided for by the Parties to this Agreement and that such automatic aid is intended to be available in the event of a maritime emergency of such magnitude that is, or is likely to be, beyond the control of a single party and requires the combined forces of several or all the parties to this agreement to combat. 3. Availabilitv. It is expressly understood that the automatic aid extended under this Agreement and the operational plans adopted pursuant thereto shall be available and furnished in all cases of maritime emergencies regardless of type, provided that such automatic aid does not compromise any Party's abiliry and capaciry to respond to calls for service within its own jurisdiction. ATTY/AGR/2011.136/ SF BAY MARITIME AUTOMATIC AID AGREEMENT REV:12/07/11 2 Of 6