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Public Health Law Program: Mutual Aid
"Mutual aid agreements can be effective tools to assist U.S. state and local governments, Tribes, Canadian provinces, First Nations, and Mexican states in sharing information, data, supplies, resources, equipment, or personnel for the purpose of protecting the public's health." Resources which can be accessed on the site include: "A Menu of Suggested Provisions for Public Health Mutual Aid Agreements" and "An Inventory of Mutual Aid Agreements and Related Resources."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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National Security Education Program (NSEP) [website]
"The National Security Education Program (NSEP) is a major Federal initiative designed to build a broader and more qualified pool of U.S. citizens with foreign language and international skills. It consists of five initiatives that represent broad strategic partnerships with the U.S. education community designed to serve the needs of U.S. national security and national competitiveness. These initiatives integrate the best components of language learning and international education developed in conjunction with progressively minded partners throughout the U.S. education community. NSEP focuses on the critical languages and cultures of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Participants are involved in innovative, intensive, and long-term programs designed to provide meaningful opportunities to gain significant competencies in these languages and cultures. NSEP is unique in the commitment of its award recipients to proceed into public service upon completion of their academic studies. Each NSEP award recipient must demonstrate a commitment to bring his or her extraordinary skills to the Federal Government through employment within one of its many agencies and departments."
National Security Education Program (U.S.)
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Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) [website]
"The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) is an independent, nonprofit, scientific research and communications organization supported solely by property insurers and reinsurers. IBHS' building safety research leads to real-world solutions for home and business owners, helping to create more resilient communities. At the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, our mission is to conduct objective, scientific research to identify and promote the most effective ways to strengthen homes, businesses and communities against natural disasters and other causes of loss."
Institute for Business & Home Safety
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Responding to Bioterrorism
This Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's webpage offers clinicians, hospitals and healthcare systems, tools, training models and guidance on how to respond to bioterrorism.
United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation: Spill Prevention and Response [website]
"The mission of the Division of Spill Prevention and Response is to prevent, respond and ensure the cleanup of unauthorized discharges of oil and hazardous substances. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Spill Prevention and Response (SPAR) is responsible for protecting Alaska's land, waters, and air from oil and hazardous substance spills. Alaskans have made a concerted effort to prevent and clean up spills. Significant progress has been made in the safe handling, storage and transportation of oil and chemicals and the cleanup of historic contamination. We will never totally eliminate the risk of spills, but we are constantly learning how to better manage that risk." This website also includes information on several programs administered by SPAR.
Alaska. Division of Spill Prevention and Response; Alaska. Department of Environmental Conservation
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EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] Region 10's Emergency Response Program
This document is a power-point presentation of an overview of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) response plan for EPA region 10, which includes Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and 267 Indian Tribes. This presentation includes details about actions the EPA is prepared to take in an emergency, equipment and personnel available, and also gives details about national capabilities.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region X
Szerlog, Michael
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Facility Response Planning, Compliance Assistance Guide [Spanish]
"This guide is part of a series of compliance assistance guides that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed in order to help owners and operators of facilities that store or use oil, as well as other interested people, to better understand the Federal Oil Pollution Prevention regulation (40 CFR part 112). If you own or operate a facility that stores or uses oil, these guides will help you to determine whether the regulation applies to you. They also provide descriptions of some of the basic requirements you will be expected to meet if the regulation does apply to your facility." This document is in Spanish, but is also available in English.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Facility Response Planning, Compliance Assistance Guide
"This guide is part of a series of compliance assistance guides that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed in order to help owners and operators of facilities that store or use oil, as well as other interested people, to better understand the Federal Oil Pollution Prevention regulation (40 CFR part 112). If you own or operate a facility that stores or uses oil, these guides will help you to determine whether the regulation applies to you. They also provide descriptions of some of the basic requirements you will be expected to meet if the regulation does apply to your facility." This document is also available in Spanish.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Storm Prediction Center [website]
This website has real time information regarding weather, specifically storm predictions.
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Direct Relief [website]
"Direct Relief is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that provides medical assistance to people around the world who have been affected by poverty, natural disasters, and civil unrest. [...] Direct Relief's assistance programs are tailored for the particular circumstances and needs of those who have suffered from the effects of natural and man-made disasters. Direct Relief also establishes partnerships with local organizations to provide health services to people in rural areas of a country that are poor and lack basic healthcare infrastructure."
Direct Relief International
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LCRA: Energy, Water, Community Services (Lower Colorado River Authority, Texas) [website]
"The mission of the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is to provide reliable, low-cost utility and public services in partnership with our customers and communities and to use our leadership and environmental authority to ensure the protection and constructive use of the area's natural resources. LCRA is a Texas conservation and reclamation district operating with no taxing authority".
Lower Colorado River Authority
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Texas Association of Counties [website]
The Texas Association of Counties (TAC) "is the representative voice for all Texas counties and county officials and, through TAC, counties communicate the county perspective to state officials and the general public. Understanding the way county government works and the value of county services helps state leaders preserve counties' ability to serve their residents effectively."
Texas Association of Counties
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Citizen Corps Volunteer Liability Guide: An Overview of Legal Issues and Approaches to Address Liability for Emergency Volunteers
"FEMA has learned from Citizen Corps Councils, volunteer program managers, and volunteers that liability is a significant concern and a potential barrier to volunteer involvement in emergency services. Liability--legal responsibility for one's acts or omissions--includes diverse concerns: legally imposed payment of damages for personal injury or property damage; penalties for practicing a profession or trade without the required license or permit; compensation for lost income and medical expenses of an injured volunteer; and damages for breach of contract. To offer guidance in this area, FEMA funded the nonprofit Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) to develop the Citizen Corps Volunteer Liability Guide (CCVLG) to provide an overview of liability and to suggest some approaches to addressing these concerns. The material in this Guide is offered for general information purposes only. It does not provide legal advice, and the user is encouraged to seek out state-specific counsel from a qualified attorney before taking any action. This Guide also does not address specialized liability issues, such as liability based on credentialing and privileging of healthcare workers, accreditation of healthcare facilities, privacy laws, and quarantine decisions. Descriptions of statutory provisions have been paraphrased to make them easier to read, and the user is encouraged to review the complete statutory language. Links to all state statutory websites have been provided for this purpose. Finally, while there can be no guarantees against being sued, being informed on the issues can minimize your risk."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FBI: National Data Exchange (N-DEx)
This webpage provides information on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) National Data Exchange (N-DEx) program. "N-DEx provides criminal justice agencies with an online tool for sharing, searching, linking, and analyzing information across jurisdictional boundaries. A national repository of criminal justice records submitted by agencies from around the nation, N-DEx enables users to 'connect the dots' between data on people, places, and things that may seem unrelated in order to link investigations and investigators. N-DEx is an unclassified national information sharing system that enables criminal justice agencies to search, link, analyze, and share local, state, tribal, and federal records."
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Library of Congress: United States Elections Web Archive
"The United States Elections Web Archive includes sites archived weekly during the election seasons since 2000, documenting sites associated with the Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections. The campaign sites archived for the U.S. Elections typically include social media channels as well, in order to provide a fuller representation of how candidates presented themselves via the Internet to the electorate. In previous United States Election web archive collections the Library of Congress included web sites of political parties, government, advocacy groups, bloggers, and other individuals and groups expressing relevant views - these types of web sites are now collected and presented separately in the ongoing Public Policy Topics Web Archive."
Library of Congress
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Library of Congress: September 11, 2001 Web Archive
"The September 11, 2001 Web Archive preserves the web expressions of individuals, groups, the press and institutions in the United States and from around the world in the aftermath of the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. The selected websites are comprised broadly of United States and non-United States government sites; press, corporate/business, portal, charity/civic, advocacy/interest, religious, school/educational, individual/volunteer, professional organizations sites; and others."
Library of Congress
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Remarks at the United States Institute of Peace by Hillary Rodham Clinton [video]
This video is of the speech given by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the annual Dean Acheson lecture at the United States Institute of Peace. Some topics addressed by the Secretary of State include: current nuclear proliferation challenges, the IAEA, and reducing the number of nuclear weapons that the United States has. This video runs approximately 50 minutes. A transcript of the speech is also available in the HSDL collection.
United States. Department of State
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
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National Youth Gang Survey Analysis
"Since 1996, the National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) has conducted an annual survey of law enforcement agencies to assess the extent of gang problems by measuring the presence, characteristics, and behaviors of local gangs in jurisdictions throughout the United States. The National Youth Gang Survey (NYGS) is based on a nationally representative sample of law enforcement agencies serving larger cities, suburban counties, smaller cities, and rural counties. This Web resource contains analysis and findings from the ongoing National Youth Gang Surveys. Numerous charts and descriptions are provided as a resource for understanding gang problems. Standard questions asked each year include the following in these charts: the presence or absence of gang activity, the number of gangs and gang members, the number of homicides involving gangs, and the assessment of the gang problem from the previous year. Other questions asked are also included in these charts; however, these questions are asked intermittently and not every survey year. The questions include year of gang onset, demographic characteristics of gang members, gang unit operation, gang-member migration patterns, gang-related offenses, definitional characteristics of a gang, and designations of gang membership."
United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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Emerging Arctic: A New Maritime Frontier
This presentation was created by the U.S. Coast Guard and presents information on current changes in the Arctic, the work of the Coast Guard and others in the Arctic, the changing nature of Coast Guard missions in the Arctic, and Arctic Operations during Summer 2008. This presentation includes many maps of the Arctic region and images of work done there. Additionally, this presentation touches on the following topics : boundary claims, maritime traffic management, coastal erosion, growing eco-tourism, expanded resource exploration, species movement north, LORAN (Long Range Navigation), Coast Guard service, missions, and operations in the Arctic, marine safety and law enforcement, environmental response, homeland security issues, defense readiness, expanded scientific research, and coastal community engagement.
United States. Coast Guard
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Smart Grid: An Introduction
"Our nation's electric power infrastructure that has served us so well for so long -- also known as 'the grid' -- is rapidly running up against its limitations. Our lights may be on, but systemically, the risks associated with relying on an often overtaxed grid grow in size, scale and complexity every day. From national challenges like power system security to those global in nature such as climate change, our near-term agenda is formidable. Some might even say history-making.[…]. The purpose of this book is to give readers -- in plain language -- a fix on the current position of the Smart Grid and its adoption. You will learn what the Smart Grid is -- and what it is not. You will get a feel for the issues surrounding it, the challenges ahead, the countless opportunities it presents and the benefits we all stand to gain."
United States. Department of Energy
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London Prepared [website]
About London Prepared: "London Resilience coordinates institutions and communities to prevent, handle, recover and learn from disruption, and adapt to change; on behalf of the Mayor of London, Greater London Authority, Local Authorities and London Fire Brigade to ensure London survives and prospers. The London Resilience Partnership brings together over 170 organisations who each have specific responsibilities for preparing for and responding to emergencies. In addition the partnership is growing to include organisations and communities of all types to help ensure a holistic approach. London Resilience supports the work of the Partnership in assessing risks, working to reduce the likelihood or impact of those risks and, where risk can't be eliminated, preparing arrangements to respond, recover and learn from emergencies."
London Resilience Partnership
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CDC Guidance for Responses to Influenza for Institutions of Higher Education during the 2009-2010 Academic Year
"This document provides guidance to help decrease the spread of flu among students, faculty, and staff of institutions of higher education (IHE) and post-secondary educational institutions during the 2009-2010 academic year. The guidance expands upon earlier guidance for these settings by providing a menu of tools that IHE and health officials can choose from based on conditions in their area. It recommends actions to take now (during this academic year), suggests strategies to consider if the flu starts causing more severe disease than during the spring/summer 2009 H1N1 outbreak, and provides a checklist for making decisions. Detailed information on the reasons for these strategies and suggestions on how to use them is included in the Technical Report. Based on the severity of 2009 H1N1 flu-related illness thus far, this guidance also recommends that students, faculty, and staff with flu-like illness remain home until 24 hours after resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications. For the purpose of this guidance, IHE will refer to public and private, residential and nonresidential, degree-granting and non-degree-granting institutions providing post-secondary education in group settings regardless of the age of their students. Portions of this guidance pertaining to dormitories and residence halls may serve as a useful supplement to residential (boarding) schools providing primary and secondary education, with adaptations as needed for their younger population. This guidance represents the CDC's current thinking on this topic. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person or operate to bind the public."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Naval Transformation Roadmap: Power and Access ...From the Sea
Naval transformation will support joint transformation by delivering new military capabilities that will greatly expand the sovereign options available to joint force commanders to project power, assure access, and protect and advance America's interests worldwide in the face of emergent threat technologies and strategies. It will usher in new ways of deterring conflict, new capabilities for waging war, and new technologies leading to major increases in operational effectiveness. Today's Navy and Marine Corps are a Total Force of Active Duty, Reserve and civilian personnel, transforming along a broad front exploiting the asymmetric advantages of the United States; including maritime dominance, mobility, decision superiority, stealth, precision, and persistence. This Naval Transformation Roadmap describes how naval forces will achieve nine transformational war fighting capabilities, organized by a family of concepts that optimize and maximize advantages that are uniquely naval. Naval transformation will be captured by capitalizing on innovative concepts and technologies, and by employing processes to rapidly develop and integrate innovations into these forces. Inherent in every aspect of transformation is that naval forces will be, first and foremost, committed to and built upon the principles of jointness.
United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; United States. Department of the Navy; United States. Marine Corps
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International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)
Under this act, the President has the authority to deal with any unusual an extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat. The authorities granted to the President by section 1702 of this act may only be exercised to deal with threats with respect to which a national emergency has been declared for purposes of this section and may not be exercised for any other purpose.
United States. Department of the Treasury
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United States Census Bureau: Foreign-Born Population
"The foreign-born population includes anyone who is not a U.S. citizen at birth, including those who have become U.S. citizens through naturalization. The native-born population includes anyone who is a U.S. citizen at birth, including those who were born in the United States, Puerto Rico, a U.S. Island Area (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the U.S. Virgin Islands), or abroad of a U.S. citizen parent or parents."
The website contains data from the American Community Survey (ACS), the Current Population Survey (CPS), and the Decennial Census as well as a variety or publications and reports.
U.S. Census Bureau
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Weapons of Mass Protection: Nonlethality, Information Warfare, and Airpower in the Age of Chaos
The age of chaos has created new demands on policymakers and war planners alike. Wars of divestiture, which may occur far below the previous threshold of war, provide a new challenge to the United States. Weapons of mass protection can be developed that will allow the United States to assert its leadership while holding a moral high ground internationally. Airpower holds the key to timely delivery of weapons of mass protection in ways that will create new supports to diplomacy, a new deterrent below the level of massive conventional force projection, and enhanced, politically useable conventional force with which to meet the challenges of the chaotically destabilized, media-scrutinized environment. The basic values inherent in airpower deep penetration, broad reach, precision delivery, early entry must be augmented with the ability to carry payloads whose results enforce policy throughout the operational continuum in ways suitable to the needs of decision makers in this age of chaos. Wars of divestiture have at their core the aim of restoring order with minimum destruction. Weapons of mass protection have a political utility that encompasses the changed environment for warfare and allows the United States to enforce its policies when necessary, thereby exercising its role as world leader. Airpower, demonstrably the first choice for early action by US decision makers, can project non-lethal, anti-lethal, and information warfare while conserving lives, limiting destruction, and deterring by denial, thus helping to chart the course of US military power in this new and evolving action area.
Air University (U.S.). Press
Morris, Chris, 1946-; Morris, Janet; Baines, Thomas
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Treatment of Chemical Agent Casualties and Conventional Military Chemical Injuries
This manual serves as a guide and a reference for trained members of the Armed Forces Medical Services and other medically qualified personnel on the recognition and treatment of chemical agent casualties and conventional military chemical injuries. Additionally, this manual provides information on first aid (self-aid, buddy aid, and combat lifesaver (CLS) aid) for these casualties. The manual is divided in two parts. Part One covers the recognition and treatment of nerve agents, incapacitating agents, blister agents (vesicants), lung-damaging agents (choking agents), and blood agents (cyanogens) casualties. Part Two covers the recognition and treatment of injuries caused by riot control agents, smokes, incendiary agents, and other noxious industrial-type chemicals.
United States. Joint Forces Command
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Security Round Table: Incorporating Security into the Oversight Program
The prominence of rail transit and the large number of passengers who rely on this service ensure that security is a fundamental responsibility. To promote improved security capabilities at the nation's rail agencies, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has incorporated security as part of its State Safety Oversight Rule. This Rule covers all rail transit systems that receive federal funding and are not regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The FTA's State Safety Oversight Rule was prepared in response to section 3029 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), which directed FTA to issue regulations requiring that states oversee the safety and security of Rail Fixed Guideway Systems (RFGS). The enactment of Section 3029 reflected the growing concerns of Congress regarding the potential for catastrophic accidents and security incidents on rail transit systems; it was subsequently codified into the Federal Transit Act at 49 U.S.C. section 5330.
United States. Federal Transit Administration
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Supreme Court of the United States [website]
The official website of the Supreme Court, the site provides an overview of the history of the Supreme Court, the Court and constitutional interpretation, various orders of the court, opinions, case handling guides, court rules, bar admissions, and oral arguments.
United States. Supreme Court
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Our Documents [website]
The Our Documents initiative is a cooperative effort among National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps. "At the heart of this initiative are 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union."
United States. National Archives and Records Administration
