Federal Response Plan

Support Function Protective Clothing for Hazardous Chemicals Operations - NFPA 1993. Quincy, MA. Technical Bulletin - Assay Techniques for Detection of Exposure To Sulfur Mustard, Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Terrorism Incident Annex to the Federal Response Plan. Washington, D.C. 1995. 

Pinkson, R. G. (2002). The United Federal Response Plan. In D. Hogan J. L. Burnstein (Eds.), Disaster medicine (pp. 123-132). Philadelphia Lippincott Williams Wilkins. 

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). (1992). The Metropolitan Medical Response System. Federal Response Plan (Pub. L. No. 93-288). Retrieved February 10, 2006, from https //www.mmrs.fema.gov/default.aspx... 

ESF 6 Mass Care - Mass Care includes sheltering and feeding victims of disaster, emergency first aid, family reunification, and the distribution of emergency relief supplies the American Red Cross (ARC) is designated by the Federal Response Plan (NRP) as the primary agency responsible for ESF Mass Care. 

Introduction to the Basic Plan of the Federal Response Plan, April 1999, Federal Emergency Management Agency, URL http //www.fema.gov/r-n-r/frp/frpintro.htm. 

Federal Emergency Management Agency. 1997. Terrorist Incident Annex to the Federal Response Plan, Document No. FEMA 229. Washington, DC Federal Emergency Management Agency. 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin (Flynn) FEMA Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (CCP) Victims Federal Response Plan... 

The federal security directors at all major airports (these individuals are TS A employees) have operational control for security and are charged with organizing and implementing crisis management response plans. 

National Contingency Plan Created by CERCLA to define the federal response authority and responsibility for oil and hazardous materials spills. The regulations are codified at 40 CFR300. 

Department of Health and Human Services Health and Medical Services Support Plan for the Federal Response Acts of Chemical/Biological (C/B) Terrorism. Washington, D.C. Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP), of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), undated. 

Emergency response plans (ERPs) are nothing new to chemical industries, since many have developed ERPs to deal with natural disasters, accidents, violence in the workplace, civil unrest, and so on. Because chemical industries are a vital part and ingredient of our way of life, it has been prudent for chemical industries to develop ERPs in order to help ensure the continuous flow of water to the community. However, many chemical industry ERPs developed prior to 9/11 do not explicitly deal with terrorist threats, such as intentional fire, explosion, or contamination. Recently, the U.S. Congress and federal regulators have required chemical industries to prepare or revise, as necessary, an ERP to reflect the findings of their vulnerability assessment and to address terrorist threats. 

Section 104 of Superfund authorizes the President to remove or remedy any release or threatened release to the environment of any hazardous substance, as defined in Section 101(14) of the Act, or any other containment which may present an "imminent and substantial danger" to the public health or the environment. He may accomplish this by removing the hazardous substance, or by taking "any other response measure," unless he determined that such removal or remedy will be done by some responsible person. Regardless of which course the President chooses, Section 104(a)(1) states that it must be "consistent with the national contingency plan." Section 111(a) directs that the costs of such federal response be borne by the response fund created by the Act. 

A number of legal requirements must be incorporated in a facility s ERP. Emergency prevention, preparedness, and response planning are regulated at the federal, state, and, occasionally, local levels. At the federal level, these laws include... 

A list of these laws and their Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) citations appears in the bibliography at the end of the chapter. States may have their own laws and regulations that also govern emergency response planning. References to these laws may be found in the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) Environment Reporter. 

The federal government and the agencies responsible for the laws that govern emergency response planning provide 800-number hotlines... 

Address linkages to other federal incident management and emergency response plans developed for specific types of incidents or hazards. 

For the purposes of activating the National Response Plan, the federal government defines a disaster condition as follows ... 

How will changes in the structure and functioning of the federal government impact the health care system and the National Response Plan ... 

Planning is an ongoing feature of all Red Cross disaster activities. The Red Cross disaster response plan documents what it will take to respond to each type of disaster, what resources will be needed, how the resources will be coordinated and used, and contains policies, procedures, and protocols to ensure a systematic management of each facet of response, including those related to health (see Appendix I). The role of the Red Cross in disaster relief is that the Red Cross supplements the resources and services of the local, state, and federal government and does not override or substitute for the local, state, and federal governments responsihilities in times of disasters. The American Red Cross is not a first responder—all disasters are local—hut its services can be activated when the local need exceeds the availahle resources. 

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