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National Response Center (NRC)
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The primary function of the National
Response Center is to serve as the sole
national point of contact for reporting all
oil, chemical, radiological, biological, and
etiological discharges into the
environment anywhere in the United
States and its territories.
It provides notification to specific DOT
and National Transportation Safety Board
offices of transportation related incidents
that meet certain pre-established criteria.
National Response Center (NRC)
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The NRC is staffed by Coast Guard
personnel who maintain a 24 hour per
day, 365 day per year telephone watch.
NRC watch standers enter telephonic
reports of pollution incidents into the
Incident Reporting Information System
(IRIS) and immediately relay each report
to the pre-designated Federal On-Scene
Coordinator (FOSC).
Duties of the NRC
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Provides emergency response
support to the FOSC's.
Includes extensive reference
materials, state of the art
telecommunications and operation
of automated chemical identification
and chemical dispersion information
systems.
National Response Center
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Government's mechanism for emergency
response to discharges of oil and the release of
chemicals into the navigable waters or
environment of the United States and its
territories.
Initially, this system focused on oil spills and
selected hazardous polluting substances
discharged into the environment.
It has since been expanded by other legislation to
include hazardous substances and wastes
released to all types of media.
National Response Center
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On behalf of the Department of Homeland
Security and the United States Coast Guard , the
National Response Center:
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Briefs the White House , Office of Homeland
Security , Secretary of Transportation, and Chiefs of
Modal Administrations regarding all significant
transportation emergencies reported to the Center;
Provides information the Coast Guard's Office of
Marine Safety, Security, and Environmental
Protection as needed for a variety of reports,
studies, or Congressional Inquiries;
Receives and relays reports of incidents reportable
under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act ;
Provides electronic and hard copy incident reports
to various DOT agencies;
NRC and Terrorism
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Any incident related to terrorism or possible
terrorist activity requires telephonic notification to
the National Response Center.
Includes bombings, bomb threats, suspicious
letters or packages, and incidents related to the
intentional release of
chemical/biological/radioactive agents.
National Response Center Watch Standers have
been trained to ask specific questions for such
reports and will immediately pass the information
to the proper agencies for response.
Components of the National Response
Center
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The NRC has various components
related to emergency responses
Federal On-Scene Coordinators (FOSC)
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The FOSC is a federal official, pre-designated by EPA
for inland areas and by the Coast Guard for coastal or
major navigable waterways.
Coordinate all federal containment, removal, disposal
efforts, and resources during an incident.
Coordinates federal efforts with the local community's
response.
Anyone responsible for reporting releases should be
aware of which FOSC has responsibility for the affected
area.
For locations near the coast or a major waterway, there
may be both a Coast Guard and EPA FOSC with
assigned responsibilities within jurisdictional
boundaries of various state or local entities.
National Response Team (NRT)
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The National Response Team's membership
consists of 16 federal agencies with interest and
expertise in various aspects of emergency
response to pollution incidents.
The NRT is a planning, policy, and coordinating
body; providing national level policy guidance
prior to an incident and does not respond directly
to an incident.
They can provide assistance to an FOSC during an
incident, usually in the form of technical advice or
access to additional resources and equipment at
the national level.
Regional Response Team (RRT)
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RRT's are the next organizational level in the federal
response system. Currently, there are 13 RRTs, one for
each of the ten federal regions, plus one each for
Alaska, the Caribbean and the Pacific Basin.
Each team maintains a Regional Contingency Plan and
both the state and federal governments are
represented.
RRTs are primarily planning, policy and coordinating
bodies.
Provide guidance to FOSCs through the Regional
Contingency Plans and work to locate assistance
requested by the FOSC during an incident.
May provide assistance to state and local governments
in preparing, planning or training for emergency
response.
NRC Special Forces
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The four NRC special force
components are;
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Coast Guard National Strike Force
(NSF)
EPA Environmental Response Team
(ERT)
Coast Guard Public Information Assist
Team (PIAT)
Scientific Support Coordinators (SSC)
Coast Guard National Strike Force
(NSF)
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The NSF is composed of three strategically
located strike teams and a coordination
center.
The strike teams have specially trained
personnel and are equipped to respond to
major oil spills and chemical releases.
The coordination center maintains a
national inventory listing of spill response
equipment and assists with the
development and implementation of an
exercise and training program for the
National Response System.
Coast Guard Public Information Assist
Team (PIAT)
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The PIAT is a highly skilled unit of
public affairs specialists prepared to
complement the existing public
information capabilities of the
Federal On-Scene Coordinator.
EPA Environmental Response Team
(ERT)
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The ERT is a group of specially
trained scientists and engineers
based in Edison, NJ and Cincinnati,
OH. Its capabilities include
multimedia sampling and analysis,
hazard assessment, cleanup
techniques and technical support.
Scientific Support Coordinators (SSC)
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) provides SSC in coastal
and marine areas. The SSC serves on the FOSC
staff as the lead of a scientific team.
This support team provides expertise in
environmental chemistry, oil slick tracking,
pollutant transport modeling, natural resources at
risk, environmental tradeoffs of countermeasures
and cleanup, information management,
contingency planning and liaison to the scientific
community and the natural resource trustees.
National Response Plan
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The National Response Plan
established a comprehensive allhazards approach to enhance the
ability of the United States to
manage domestic incidents.
National Response Plan
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The plan incorporated best practices
and procedures from incident
management disciplines —
homeland security, emergency
management, law enforcement,
firefighting, public works, public
health, responder and recovery
worker health and safety,
emergency medical services, and
the private sector — and integrates
them into a unified structure.
National Response Plan
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The National Response Plan formed
the basis of how the federal
government coordinates with state,
local, and tribal governments and
the private sector during incidents.
National Response Plan
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The National Response Plan (NRP) was an alldiscipline, all-hazards plan that establishes a
single, comprehensive framework for the
management of domestic incidents.
It provided the structure and mechanisms for the
coordination of Federal support to State, local,
and tribal incident managers and for exercising
direct Federal authorities and responsibilities.
The NRP assisted in the important homeland
security mission of preventing terrorist attacks
within the United States; reducing the
vulnerability to all natural and manmade hazards;
and minimizing the damage and assisting in the
recovery from any type of incident that occurs.
National Response Framework
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National Response Framework
became effective March 2008 and
replaced the National Response
Plan.
As a result of problems identified
during the Hurricane Katrina
disaster, changes were identified
National Response Framework
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Important changes include:
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Removing criteria for “Incident of
National Significance”
Incidents will include actual or potential
emergencies
Includes all-hazard events that range
from accidents and natural disasters to
actual or potential terrorist attacks
Will continue to use the Annexes from
the NRP