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