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HYSPLIT Volcanic Ash Model [website]
This website provides links to HYSPLIT modeling software (part of the Real-time Environmental Applications and Display sYstem-READY) that forecasts volcanic ash concentrations. Forecasts may be manipulated to various specifics. The website also provides links to compute archived volcanic ash concentrations, previous model results and links to other volcano-related websites.
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board [website]
"Welcome to the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board website. You will notice that we are engaged in many areas of Indian health, including legislation, health promotion and disease prevention, as well as data surveillance and research. Our strengths include an active board, talented staff, and a forward thinking organization. We know that there is much work to be done to improve the health status in Indian Country, but we do not shy away from the challenge. Established in 1972, the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB or the Board) is a non-profit tribal advisory organization serving the forty-three federally recognized tribes of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Each member tribe appoints a Delegate via tribal resolution, and meets quarterly to direct and oversee all activities of NPAIHB. [...] NPAIHB Delegates create and update a strategic plan, which contains four main functional areas: Health promotion and disease prevention; Legislative and policy analysis; Training and technical assistance; [and] Surveillance and research. NPAIHB houses a tribal epidemiology center (EpiCenter), several health promotion disease prevention projects, and is active in Indian health policy."
Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
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USGS: Earthquake Hazards Program Earthquake Glossary [website]
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has developed an "earthquake glossary" to assist in earthquake education. This A-Z reference site covers terminology related to earthquakes and other seismic activity.
Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Corrosion Protection for Metal Connectors in Coastal Areas for Structures Located in Special Flood Hazard Areas in Accordance with the National Flood Insurance Program
"An important objective of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is to protect buildings from the effects of hurricanes. The NFIP regulations include requirements concerning the resistance of buildings to flood and wind forces (as described in the following section). For a building in a Coastal High Hazard Area to comply with these requirements, many of its components must be adequately anchored. In wood-frame buildings, the necessary anchoring is usually achieved through the use of metal connectors such as joist hangers, truss plates, and hurricane straps. The need for such connectors is especially great in coastal areas, where storminduced flooding and high winds pose significant threats. However, metal connectors are subject to corrosion when exposed to moisture and salt, both of which are prevalent in coastal areas. This bulletin describes the causes of accelerated corrosion of metal connectors in buildings located near the ocean and some larger saltwater bays. The variation in the corrosive environments within a typical building is also described. This bulletin outlines available corrosion-resistant materials and methods of maintaining proper anchorage for the life of the building. It recommends connector materials for buildings at various distances from the ocean and for different exposure conditions within an individual building. Few local building codes and no national building codes address accelerated corrosion near the coast. This bulletin describes areas where corrosion is known to be a problem and recommends a variety of solutions."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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U.S. Department of State Human Rights Reports
This webpage contains a list of human rights reports issued by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor beginning in the year 1999. The list is updated annually. "The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress in compliance with sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, and section 504 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended. The law provides that the Secretary of State shall transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, 'a full and complete report regarding the status of internationally recognized human rights, within the meaning of subsection (A) in countries that receive assistance under this part, and (B) in all other foreign countries which are members of the United Nations and which are not otherwise the subject of a human rights report under this Act.' Reports on several countries are included that do not fall into the categories established by these statutes and that thus are not covered by the congressional requirement."
United States. Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
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Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism (SPPA) Initiative: Final Summary Report September 2005 - September 2008
"To assist in protecting the nation's food supply, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developed a joint assessment program, the Strategic Partnership Program Agroterrorism (SPPA) Initiative. The purpose of this initiative was to conduct a series of assessments of the food and agricultural sector in collaboration with private industry and State volunteers. These assessments supported the requirements for a coordinated food and agriculture infrastructure protection program as stated in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), Sector Specific Plans (SSP), National Preparedness Guidelines (released in 2007), and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9 (HSPD-9), Defense of US Agriculture and Food. SPPA assessments were conducted on a voluntary basis between one or more industry representatives for a particular product or commodity, their trade association(s), and Federal and State Government agricultural, public health and law enforcement officials. Together, they conducted a vulnerability assessment of that industry's production process using the CARVER + Shock tool. The acronym 'CARVER' stands for the factors assessed: Criticality, Accessibility, Recuperability, Vulnerability, Effect, Recognizability, and Shock. As a result of each assessment, participants identified individual nodes, or process points that are of highest concern, protective measures and mitigation steps that may reduce the vulnerability of these nodes, and research gaps/needs. Discussions of mitigation steps and good security practices were general in nature, focusing on physical security improvements for food processing facilities and biosecurity practices and disease surveillance for livestock and plants."
United States. Food and Drug Administration
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Faster Response Time: Effective Use of Resources: Integrating Transportation Systems and Emergency Management Systems
This booklet discusses how coordinating emergency dispatchers with transportation management agencies can improve effectiveness and response times. When emergency services agencies share facilities and traffic monitoring resources with transportation management agencies, there is a quantifiable improvement in the efficiency and rate of incident response.
United States. Department of Transportation; United States. Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems
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U.S. NRC Fact Sheet: Radiation Monitoring at Nuclear Power Plants and the 'Tooth Fairy' Issue
This United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) factsheet discusses the monitoring of Strontium-90 (Sr-90), "a silvery-white alkaline earth metal that exists in several stable and unstable (or radioactive) isotopes," and the Tooth Fair Project, a study which claims that "Sr-90 concentrations in baby teeth are higher in areas around nuclear power plants than in other areas." It further discusses the limits NRC places on the amount of radioactive emissions allowed to be released from nuclear power plants, the environmental program that is reviewed and inspected by NRC, and that "Sr-90 in the atmosphere form nuclear power plants is extremely small compared with other man-made sources."
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Public Affairs
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Safe Operation of Fire Tankers
"The alarming rate at which fire department tankers are involved in serious crashes led the United States Fire Administration (USFA) to commission this report. Since its inception, the USFA has been committed to enhancing the health and safety of emergency response personnel. Fire service personnel across the United States rely on the USFA for current information and state-of-the-art guidance on critical fire service operational issues. The purposes of this report include: (1) documenting all fatal crashes involving fire department tankers since 1990; (2) analyzing the causes and common factors associated with these crashes; (3) highlighting pertinent case histories that show examples of the problem; (4) providing information on reducing the frequency of these crashes and minimizing their severity/impact when unavoidable crashes occur; and (5) providing example procedures and checklists to assist departments in reducing the likelihood of tanker crashes."
United States Fire Administration
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USGS: Volcano Hazards Program [website]
"The mission of the USGS [United States Geological Survey] Volcano Hazards Program is to enhance public safety and minimize social and economic disruption from eruptions through delivery of effective forecasts, warnings, and information of volcano hazards based on scientific understanding of volcanic processes. The USGS Volcano Hazards Program (VHP) monitors and studies active and potentially active volcanoes, assesses their hazards, and conducts research on how volcanoes work in order for the USGS to issue "timely warnings" of potential volcanic hazards to emergency-management professionals and the public. Thus, in addition to collecting and interpreting the best possible scientific information, the program works to effectively communicate its scientific findings and volcanic activity alerts to authorities and the public."
Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Prevent Fire. Save Lifes.: Fire Safety Campaign for People 50-Plus
This is a PowerPoint presentation with basic information about fire safety for persons over 50 years old.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Access Board Emergency Evacuation Procedures
"This is the Access Board's current emergency evacuation plan, made publicly available, along with information on how it was developed, as a resource for other organizations who may implement or update their own plans. While this plan is specific to the Board's workforce and building site, it may help others identify and address some of the important issues that need to be taken into account in developing evacuation plans that accommodate persons with disabilities."
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
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Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) [website]
"The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®) serves the DoD [Department of Defense] community as the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. For more than 60 years DTIC has provided the warfighter and researchers, scientists, engineers, laboratories, and universities timely access to over 2 million publications covering over 250 subject areas. Our mission supports the nation's warfighter. DTIC is a DoD Field Activity within the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L), reporting to the Director, Defense Research & Engineering (DDR&E). All visitors can search DTIC's publicly accessible collections and read or download scientific and technical information, using DTIC Online service. DTIC also makes available sensitive and classified information to eligible users who register for DTIC services."
Defense Technical Information Center (U.S.)
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Deepwater BP Oil Spill [Obama Administration White House Archives]
This is the archived version of the Obama Administration's White House website section on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This informational page is primarily a compilation of relevant links. It also includes information about volunteer opportunities, safety in the Gulf of Mexico, and daily updates on what the government is doing.
United States. White House Office
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Pipeline Safety Trust [website]
"The Pipeline Safety Trust promotes fuel transportation safety through education and advocacy, by increasing access to information, and by building partnerships with residents, safety advocates, government, and industry, that result in safer communities and a healthier environment."
Pipeline Safety Trust
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Terrorist Designation Lists
This United State Department of State webpage provides an up-to-date list of people and groups designated by the United States as terrorists.
United States. Department of State
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Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) [website]
"The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) operates in a dynamic and challenging environment. The scope and complexity of our safety mission will continue to grow, requiring that we fundamentally rethink how we will use data, information, and technology to achieve our safety goals. In this context, PHMSA's leadership team has updated the agency's strategic framework. As part of this work, we have developed bold new vision and mission statements that better reflect our focus on innovation, and how essential PHMSA's safety mission is to the daily lives of Americans - allowing for the safe transportation of energy that heats our homes and powers our mobile devices. PHMSA's mission is to protect people and the environment by advancing the safe transportation of energy and other hazardous materials that are essential to our daily lives. To do this, the agency establishes national policy, sets and enforces standards, educates, and conducts research to prevent incidents. We also prepare the public and first responders to reduce consequences if an incident does occur."
United States. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
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NIOSH Science Blog [blog]
This is a blog of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). "The mission of the NIOSH is to generate new knowledge in the field of occupational safety and health and to transfer that knowledge into practice for the betterment of workers." The blog "facilitates directed discussion on specific topics."
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) [website]
"Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) provides a public safety partnership consisting of local, state and federal agencies, as well as the public sector and private entities that will collect, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information and intelligence to the agencies tasked with Homeland Security responsibilities in a timely, effective, and secure manner. MIAC is the mechanism to collect incident reports of suspicious activities to be evaluated and analyzed in an effort to identify potential trends or patterns of terrorist or criminal operations within the Missouri area. MIAC will also function as a vehicle for two-way communication between federal, state and local law enforcement community within our region."
Missouri Information Analysis Center
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DipNote: U.S. Department of State Official Blog [blog]
"The mission of the U.S. Department of State is to create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community. Through its websites and other online resources, the Department offers broad public access to a wide range of information. Blogs.state.gov offers the public an alternative source to mainstream media for U.S. foreign policy information. This blog offers the opportunity for participants to discuss important foreign policy issues with senior Department officials."
United States. Department of State
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Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) [website]
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) "offers an extensive scope of programs that covers the entire range of Federal, State and local government services. Programs administered by either Tribes or Indian Affairs through the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) include an education system consisting of 183 schools and dormitories educating approximately 42,000 elementary and secondary students and 28 tribal colleges, universities, and post-secondary schools. Programs administered through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) include social services, natural resources management on trust lands representing 55 million surface acres and 57 million acres of subsurface minerals estates, economic development programs in some of the most isolated and economically depressed areas of the United States, law enforcement and detention services, administration of tribal courts, implementation of land and water claim settlements, housing improvement, disaster relief, replacement and repair of schools, repair and maintenance of roads and bridges, and the repair of structural deficiencies on high hazard dams, the BIA operates a series irrigation systems and provides electricity to rural parts of Arizona. Through Indian Affairs programs, Tribes improve their tribal government infrastructure, community infrastructure, education, job training, and employment opportunities along with other components of long term sustainable development that work to improve the quality of life for their members."
United States. Department of the Interior
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Investigation into use of FEMA Trailers
The following document contains a letter, and supporting documents, sent from the office of Representative Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, to Attorney General Eric H. Holder, the General Services Administration Administrator Martha N. Johnson, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator W. Craig Fugate. The letter calls for an investigation into press reports that trailers once used as temporary housing units during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, and have since become contaminated with, among other toxins, formaldehyde are currently being used by workers involved with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup. This is in spite of Representative Thompson's prior efforts to ensure these units would not be used as housing if resold, and assurances from the aforementioned agencies that such a situation would not occur.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
Thompson, Bennie, 1948-; King, Peter T., 1944-
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Army National Guard Annual Financial Report: Fiscal Year 1998
"During Fiscal Year 1998, the Army National Guard saw duty in Bosnia and dozens of other nations throughout the world. At home, the Guard was called into service to support a wide variety of Emergency Response missions throughout the country. Through it all, our Guard personnel executed these missions with the exceptional skills, training, and devotion that have been a hallmark of the Army National Guard since 1636. [...] Accomplishing our mission in a constrained resource environment requires careful management of the dollars entrusted to us. This publication is the initial effort of the Army National Guard to capture the key management aspects of this stewardship in an annual report."
United States. National Guard Bureau
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Radiation Emergency Medical Management [website]
"[Radiation Emergency Medical Management] REMM was produced by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Office of Planning and Emergency Operations, in cooperation with the National Library of Medicine, Division of Specialized Information Services, with subject matter experts from the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many US and international consultants." The goals of this site are to: "Provide guidance for health care providers, primarily physicians, about clinical diagnosis and treatment of radiation injury during radiological and nuclear emergencies; Provide just-in-time, evidence-based, usable information with sufficient background and context to make complex issues understandable to those without formal radiation medicine expertise; [and] Provide web-based information that is also downloadable in advance, so that it would be available during an emergency if the internet is not accessible"
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
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Hurricane Impacts on the Coastal Environment
"During August and September 1992, Category 4 hurricanes, with sustained winds between 131 mph and 155 mph, made four landfalls in the United States and its territories. The resulting damage in south Florida, Louisiana, Guam, and Hawaii was in the tens of billions of dollars. Hurricanes and extreme extratropical storms cause elevated sea level, known as storm surge, and extensive shoreline erosion and other geologic effects leading to the loss of property and life. We cannot yet predict with confidence the magnitude of this erosion and the extent of geologic impacts. The variability of shoreline types, including barrier islands of Louisiana, mangroves of south Florida, coral reefs and pocket beaches of Hawaii and Guam, make predictions especially difficult."
Geological Survey (U.S.)
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EPA Response to BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico [website]
This website details the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) response to the Oil Spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. Sections included on the site are Air Data, Water Data, Sediment Data, Waste Management, Dispersants, Questions and Answers, and What You Can Do.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Domestic Preparedness [website]
"DomesticPreparedness.com, the DPJ Weekly Brief and the DomPrep Journal are the leading ePublications that reach multiple disciplines, multi-jurisdiction professionals in the preparedness and response community. Every Wednesday, the DPJ Weekly Brief is sent by email to senior management in first response, medical readiness (including public health), emergency management, local, state, federal authorities, plus industry concerned with infrastructure protection. DomesticPreparedness.com requires registration and login to access premium content. Many qualified readers receive complimentary membership. At the end of each month, the articles are reformated and published as the DomPrep Journal and available as a PDF download."
DomesticPreparedness.com
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Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center [website]
"The REMS [Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools] Technical Assistance [TA] Center's primary goal is to support schools, school districts, and institutions of higher education in emergency management, including the development and implementation of comprehensive emergency and crisis response plans. Established by the OSDFS in October 2004, the REMS Technical Assistance Center supports REMS and EMHE grantees in managing and implementing their grants and in sustaining their efforts over time. Non-grantee local educational agencies (LEAs), schools, and institutions of higher education (IHEs) also may receive support to improve and strengthen their emergency management plans. The TA Center disseminates information about emergency management to help schools, school districts, and institutions of higher education learn more about developing, implementing, and evaluating crisis plans. In addition, the TA Center helps the OSDFS coordinate technical assistance meetings, manage listservs for sharing emergency management planning information, and respond to direct requests for technical assistance."
United States. Department of Education. Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Radiological Dispersal Device Playbook
"The purpose of this playbook is to provide guidance for executive decision makers within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the event of an actual radiological terrorist attack in a U.S. city. Specifically, it outlines key measures and options to aid the Secretary in making essential decisions and directing the HHS response to a radiological attack. The playbook functions as a resource document to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to assist in coordinating the Department's Emergency Support Function (ESF #8) with other Federal and local emergency support agencies. It is not intended to serve as an instruction manual for implementing the ESF #8 missions at the operational or tactical level; rather, it illustrates the capabilities required to meet probable mission requirements. This playbook is a living document that must be updated periodically to reflect evolving processes and policy decisions including changes resulting from interagency plans or policies. ASPR is responsible for managing this process of bringing the playbooks up to date."
United States. Department of Health and Human Services
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National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS): Operations 2007
"Since the implementation of the NICS [National Instant Criminal Background Check System] on November 30, 1998, the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] has continued to focus on identifying, developing, and implementing process and system improvements to the nation's firearms background check system. In support of its mission to provide the timely determination of a person's eligibility to receive firearms or explosives in accordance with federal and state law, the FBI CJIS [Criminal Justice Information System] Division's NICS Section strives to provide effective and efficient service to its users. The staff and management of the NICS Section take great pride in the many accomplishments achieved program-to-date (PTD), in the furtherance of public safety and national security in America." This report includes highlights of the NICS 2007 operations.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Criminal Justice Information Services Division
