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Title: EPA's Radiological and Nuclear Emergency Response Program


1
EPA's Radiological and Nuclear Emergency Response
Program
June 18, 2009Presented byRonald Fraass, Lab
DirectorNational Air and Radiation Environmental
Laboratory
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EPAs Role in Terrorist Incidents
  • Pre-release
  • Support the DHS and the FBI in threat credibility
    assessment
  • Can pre-deploy at Nationally Significant Special
    Events (NSSEs) or on Domestic Emergency Support
    Team (DEST)
  • Incident-specific
  • Post-release
  • Forensic assets assist in evidence collection
  • Emergency response assets respond to consequences
    of incident at the tactical level
  • Clean-up efforts

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Consequences Response Role
  • Provide overall response coordination
    (NRF/ESF10) emergency response
    management/support to federal, state, tribal, and
    local governments
  • Perform and coordinate radiological monitoring
    and assessment
  • Develop Protective Action Guides (PAGs)
  • Provide Special Teams emergency response
    radiological expertise and support under the NCP
    and also as NIRT members if requested by FEMA
  • Serve as Coordinating Agency under the NRFs
    Nuclear/Radiological Incident Annex in some
    circumstances

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US EPAs SPECIAL TEAMS Working Together to
Support National
Emergency Response
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NDT Location - NCERT
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Radiological Emergency Response Team (RERT)
Established in 1971
  • Mission - leads or assists federal, state,
    tribal, and local response efforts before,
    during, and following a radiological incident
  • Focus Radiation monitoring evaluation
  • Sampling / monitoring
  • Lab analysis
  • Hazard evaluation
  • Characterization
  • Clean-up decontamination
  • Risk Assessment
  • Waste disposal

7
Environmental Response Team (ERT) Established in
1978
  • Mission Support the nations response, cleanup
    and renewal of its contaminated land, water and
    air.
  • Focus classic environmental emergencies and
    more
  • Characterization
  • Sampling / monitoring
  • Hazard evaluation
  • Risk Assessment
  • Health Safety
  • Decon / disposal

8
National Decontamination Team (NDT) Established
2003
  • Mission to provide on-site scientific and
    technical expertise in response to incidences of
    national significance involving environmental
    contamination and acts of terrorism related to
    weapons of mass destruction.
  • Focus WMD agents
  • Sampling
  • Health and Safety
  • Decontamination
  • Waste Disposal
  • Nature and extent of contamination

Buildings, infrastructure, indoor environments,
agriculture, environmental media
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National Counterterrorism Evidence Response Team
(NCERT) Established in 2001
  • MISSION To provide specialized law enforcement
    management of chemical, biological, radiological
    and nuclear (CBRN) incidents
  • Focus provide special agents for crime scene
    forensics and evidence collection in contaminated
    zones

RNC 2004 NYC
RICIN INCIDENT DC
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Special Team Assets
  • PERSONNEL
  • Environmental Scientists
  • Health Physicists
  • Medical Officers
  • Geologists
  • Industrial Hygienists
  • Toxicologists
  • Chemists
  • Biologists
  • Engineers (Chem, Env, Civ, Nuc)
  • Env Protection Specialists
  • Special Agents Law Enforcement

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Special Team Assets
  • Mobile Labs MERLS, TAGA, Phyllis, ASPECT, field
    lab systems
  • Scanner Van/ERGS/Robots
  • Real time Air Monitoring
  • Mobile Command Posts/platforms
  • Sampling and Monitoring equipment for
    rad/chem/bio
  • Forensic sampling
  • RadNet Fixed deployable monitors
  • Fixed Labs Radiological and Mixed Waste

12
National Radiation Monitoring
  • EPA has upgraded its national radiation air
    monitoring
  • because air is a likely pathway of exposure from
    a terrorist incident
  • Previously known as the Environmental Radiation
    Ambient Monitoring System (ERAMS)
  • Nationwide, continuously operating environmental
    radiation monitoring system
  • Upgraded air monitoring to include both fixed and
    deployable components
  • Air monitoring provides near real-time gamma
    spectroscopy beta detection
  • Milk, precipitation, and drinking water also
    routinely monitored
  • Helps decision-makers estimate the effects of
    national scale radioactive releases on human
    health and the environment
  • Developed system to meet data quality objectives
    based on response timeline

13
Fixed Monitor Systems
  • Major Components
  • Air Sampler
  • Radiation Instruments
  • Gamma Spectroscopy Beta Detectors transmit
    data in near-real time
  • Data Processing Storing
  • Data Telemetry4 options

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RadNet Fixed Air Monitors
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Deployable Monitors
  • 40 deployable air monitors improve system
    coverage around an incident or potential threat
  • Automatically transmit near-real-time external
    exposure rate
  • Provide more flexible monitoring capability
  • Include high and low volume air samplers and
    simplified weather station

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Radiological Incident Response Challenges
  • Maintaining radiation emergency response,
    clean-up capabilities, and preparedness
  • Application of DHS guidance for establishing
    cleanup levels
  • Practical planning and exercises to make this
    approach viable and acceptable to affected state
    and local officials
  • Expanding national laboratory operating capacity
    for radionuclides
  • Processing and integrating massive incident data
  • Ensuring that appropriate research is being
    conducted to help support our radiological
    clean-up mission
  • Transferring decontamination clean-up
    technologies to urban environments
  • Integrating limited technical specialists into
    national response
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