Transcript National Radiological Emergency Preparedness: EPA Updates March 29, 2010 Presented by: Ron Fraass, Director NAREL.

National Radiological Emergency
Preparedness: EPA Updates
March 29, 2010
Presented by:
Ron Fraass, Director
NAREL
EPA’s Emergency Response Program
• Protect
the public and the environment from
immediate threats posed by the release or
discharge of hazardous substance and oil spills.
• On-Scene Coordinators (OSCs)
• EPA Special Teams
• State and Local Responders
Special Teams
• Environmental
Response Team
• National Counter-terrorism Evidence Response
Team
• National Decontamination Team
• Radiological Emergency Response Team
• Multiple Exercises/Training Events
• One Call Reaches All
Call the one you know or use:
National Response Center at 800 424-8802 or 202 267-2165
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ERT – Las Vegas, Edison, Erlanger/Cincinnati, RTP
RERT – Las Vegas, Montgomery, DC
NDT – Erlanger, Edison, Cincinnati, Kansas City, RTP, DC
NCERT – Denver, DC, Brunswick
Environmental Response Team
(ERT)
Mission: Support the nation’s 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
National Counterterrorism Evidence
Response Team (NCERT)
Established in 2001
MISSION – To provide specialized law
enforcement management of chemical,
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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
AMERITHRAX DC
National Decontamination Team (NDT)
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
Radiological Emergency Response Team (RERT)
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
Additions to Assets
• Improved
Sample Preparation Trailer and MERL at
Montgomery (NAREL/RERT)
• Major Sample Preparation Trailer--Las Vegas
• Replacing MERL trailer--Las Vegas
• Mobile Gamma Exposure/GPS Scanning System
• Updated ASPECT aircraft
• PHILIS units for CWA and Toxic Chemicals
• Completed Training for Radiation Task Force Leaders
and additional Response Support Corps members
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Laboratory Improvements
• Program
to review commercial laboratory
capacity and capabilities
• Training for Laboratory Technicians
• Training on MARLAP/MARSIM
• Newly developed rapid analysis procedures
• Documents for triage and sampling of water
published, air sampling & method validation
ready
• Pilot Program of 4 Cooperative Agreements to
increase state radiation lab capacity/capability
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National Monitoring
• 118
upgraded RadNet air monitoring sites
• 40 deployable RadNet monitors
• Continuing milk, rain-water, and water
monitoring
• Envirofacts for historical RadNet laboratory data
• www.epa.gov/enviro/html/erams/
• CDX (www.epa.gov/cdx) for current hourly
RadNet air data
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Contact Information
• Ron
Fraass
• [email protected]
• Office: 334 270-3401
• Cell: 334 549-9333
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PHILIS Mobile Laboratories
 On-site
analysis of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and
TICs using EPA (SAM) methods and state of the art
instrumentation: GC/MS, LC/MS-MS, TOF-GC/MS
 3 locations across the United States (NJ, KY, CO)
 4-days of operations before refueling/restocking required
 Training platform for the EPA’s evolving Laboratory
Response Corps
 “Dual-Use” deployment of both Superfund and INS
 Will be part of the EPA’s Environmental Response
Laboratory Network
ASPECT Airborne or Ground Chem & Rad
Monitoring
 Airborne
or vehicle (rad only) monitoring of chemicals
and radioisotopes via Aero Commander 680 FL aircraft
platform or other ground vehicle
 Time aloft: 4-6 hrs/ Range: 1,100 nautical miles
 Standoff monitoring for plumes via state of the art high
speed FTIR spectrometer
 Thermal mapping via IR Line Scanner
 Aerial digital photography capabilities
 Radiation surveys via Gamma spectrometer
 All data sets geo-spatially referenced (GPS)
 Near real-time down load of data to Incident command