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WMD Response Planning. Regional Response Team Lancaster, Pennsylvania September 15, 2011. EPA WMD Planning History. Core NAR Emergency Response (9/11 & Katrina) Getting to Five 2007 State Outreach (late) 2009 Liberty RadEX 2010 Food Modernization and Safety Act 2011 Core NAR CBRN 2011.
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WMD Response Planning Regional Response Team Lancaster, Pennsylvania September 15, 2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA WMD Planning History • Core NAR Emergency Response (9/11 & Katrina) • Getting to Five 2007 • State Outreach (late) 2009 • Liberty RadEX 2010 • Food Modernization and Safety Act 2011 • Core NAR CBRN 2011 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Getting to Five • Prepare for 5 Simultaneous Incidents of National Significance 2007 • Select 5 Scenarios • Catastrophic Hurricane • Catastrophic Earthquake • Aerosol Anthrax • Radiological Dispersion Device • Blister Agent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Getting to Five • Back-up Region Group planning • Resource needs and gap identification • EPA Regions 3, 4 & 5 were assigned: • Aerosol Anthrax • Radiological Dispersion Device • Other EPA Backup Regions performed other scenario planning • Completed 2008 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Getting to Five • Results: • Five simultaneous scenarios are beyond EPA’s current capabilities • Did not account for state resources and priorities • Regions 3,4,5 Approach to RDD Response/Anthrax response • Need state outreach • Need for national EPA ESF-10/post-emergency exercise U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National State Outreach Initiative 9/09 • Each Region to meet with Individual States • Engage state environmental, health, & emergency management agencies • Address State priorities, resources and planning for 5 scenarios • Other State hazardous materials disaster needs and priorities • EPA 3 busy with Liberty RadEx in 2010 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National EPA Exercise: Liberty RadEx • Week of April 26 – 30, 2010 • 1000 Participants • 500 EPA participants from across country • Post-emergency ESF-10 response • Based upon Regions 3,4,5 RDD plans • 150 Lessons Learned • 11 Principal Findings U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Liberty RadEx Results • Need state involvement in RDD planning • Planning Section Management • Wide-area contamination disasters • Waste Disposal • Community Recovery • Community Involvement U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Core NAR CBRN 2011 • Push EPA preparedness for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear response • Addresses all aspects of preparedness: • Technology research • Laboratory/analytical capabilities • Training, resources, and capabilities • Cleanup & Disposal • State input for CBRN response planning U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Core NAR CBRN Requirements • Develop national EPA plans for chemical, biological and radiological decontamination & cleanup • Regions work with states to develop state annexes to national plans • CBRN disposal planning • No current disposal options • Need local solutions • Work to develop siting and design criteria U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 3 WMD Planning • Support national EPA CBRN planning efforts • Region 3 pushed “national” planning • Will participate in national planning work groups • Want to bring state perspective to planning effort • ESF-10 support planning • If wide area contamination disaster strikes, what does state need from EPA???? • How can we support your state? U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Region 3 WMD Planning • Engaging Region 3 states • Initiated Pennsylvania support/outreach efforts in May 2011 • 2 – 3 other states in 2012 • Others states in 2013 • Several year process U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Pennsylvania WMD Planning Outreach • Met with PADEP, PADOH, PEMA and PDA • FEMA 3 participated • Discussed • State agency planning status • State agency priorities • State agency planning needs • Follow-up on specific issues in over next months U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Pennsylvania Priorities • PEMA: Post plume exercise, ESF-14 community recovery planning • PDA: Zoonotic diseases, large animal disposal, large outbreak • PADEP: RDD Disposal • PADOH: Biological agents U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Pennsylvania Next Steps • Follow-up subgroup meetings on: • WMD disposal • Meeting with PDA, EPA & USDA • PEMA Community Recovery Planning: ESF-10 & ESF-14 coordination • Community Involvement • Large Group task: Pennsylvania role(s) in ESF-10 ICS: • Which Sections/units are state and local led? • Which are state and local supported and what positions? U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Next Steps Other States? • Schedule initial scoping meetings with other states • Environment, health, emergency management, agriculture, other? • Larger meeting to follow within 2-3 months • Meetings to address specific Issues/state input to national plans • Long-term EPA R3 develops state specific annexes to national/regional WMD plans U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Questions? U.S. Environmental Protection Agency