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Cosmo Caterino (EPA) Exercise Director

Cosmo Caterino (EPA) Exercise Director. EPA New England Region One Blister Agent Tabletop Exercise Overview. Exercise Overview. Implementation of recommendation included in the 2008 New England Homeland Security Environmental Summit After Action Report (AAR).

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Cosmo Caterino (EPA) Exercise Director

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  1. Cosmo Caterino (EPA) Exercise Director EPA New England Region One Blister AgentTabletop Exercise Overview

  2. Exercise Overview Implementation of recommendation included in the 2008 New England Homeland Security Environmental Summit After Action Report (AAR). ERLN lab exercise held last week. The overall goal of the tabletop was to provide an opportunity to discuss recovery issues that would result after an incident of this type and magnitude. This discussion assumed that it was 60 Hours post-incident.

  3. Exercise Objectives Exercise the operational relationships among State and Federal partners in accordance with the Regional Contingency Plan (RCP). Clarify State responsibilities versus Federal responsibilities for a blister agent incident. Discuss and identify issues related to the decontamination of public and private property and recommend steps towards resolution. Identify a communications strategy including protective action information to the public regarding a blister agent.

  4. Break-Out Groups All participants were pre-selected to join one of the following three breakout groups: Environmental and Public Health Operational Decision-Making Communicating Information and Protective Actions to the Public Strategic Decision-Making

  5. Analysis of Capabilities / Breakout Group Issue Identification Need for ESF-15 Training Establish interagency crisis communications work group (joint plan) Obtain procedure for developing a single website Ownership of ESF-15 work group

  6. Analysis of Capabilities / Breakout Group Issue Identification Need strategy for the management of the public’s and the political leadership’s expectations of limited laboratory capacity Need unified cleanup goals for an incident of this type and magnitude (long term chronic suface #s) Need procedure/ interagency plan for sharing data. Need a strategy for developing triage information that can be communicated to the public Develop a plan to leverage collected patient data (and its corresponding geographic content) to aid the extent of contamination determination

  7. Analysis of Capabilities / Breakout Group Issue Identification Need to develop a pre-identified organizational structure relating ESF-10 (and the RRT) to the JFO/RRCC that is consistent with NIMS and the NRF Need long-term health-based levels that are applicable to sensitive populations for CWA Need to improve (i.e., lower) laboratory analysis detection capabilities for chemical warfare agents Need to increase the capacity for analyzing CWA samples (both in the laboratory and using hand-held devices in the field) Need a predefined interagency data management plan/protocol Need the lifecycle of an environmental sample posted on the EPA website

  8. Other Suggestions Share the information from the exercise with your peers Reach out to laboratories, public health, emergency management agencies Both Strategic Decision and Environmental breakouts emphasized need to work with public affairs Support the AAR/Improvement Plan

  9. QUESTIONS?

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