National Preparedness Report

Presidential Policy Directive 8 National Preparedness requires an annual National Preparedness Report (NPR) that summarizes national progress in bnilding, snstaining, and delivering the 31 core capabilities outlined in the National Preparedness Goal. The 2013 National Preparedness Report identified areas of national strength in the following core capabilities  

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Note Tnis article is abstracted from a comprehensive state-of-the-art study of the military expls and-proplnts production industry and its w pollution abatement problems and programs, carried out by an ad hoc committee of the American Defense Preparedness Association for the Environmental Protection Agency. A comprehensive report authored by Col. Norman I. Shapira (USA, Ret), Drs James Patterson and John Brown, and Messrs William Duckert and Jack Poison is available from the National Tech-nical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161, in two volumes EPA-600/2-76-213a... 

See, for example, Tracer Release Experiments at San Francisco International Airport to Improve Preparedness Against Chemical and Biological Terrorism, Sandia Report SAND2001-8380, Albuquerque, N.Mex. Sandia National Laboratories, June 2001. 

Federal health and medical assistance is generally categorized into the major functions of prevention, medical services, mental health services, and environmental health. Each of the 15 specific functional areas is contained in one of these categories. When the lead of the national ESF 8 (the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response) is notified of the occurrence of a potential major disaster or emergency, the Assistant Secretary will request HHS and support agencies to initiate action immediately to identify and report the potential need for federal health and medical support to the affected disaster area in the following functional areas. 

The ABA s Central Office is working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness to establish and maintain a real-time burn bed availability program for the nation. In the recent past, the ABA worked with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research on a burn bed resource capacity project. The ABA Central Office will continue to work with HHS and others to develop and maintain a real-time burn bed resource capacity reporting system. 

Argonne National Laboratory. 1994. Personal Protective Equipment for the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program A Status Report. Argonne, IL Argonne National Laboratory. 

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