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FY 2005 Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FMA) Guidance
This document published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] provides an overview of the 2005 Flood Mitigation Assistance [FMA] grant program which helps local communities reduce and prepare for the risk posed by flood damage. More specifically, "the FY 2005 FMA priority is to fund flood mitigation activities that fund flood mitigation activities that reduce the number of repetitive loss structures currently insured by the NFIP [National Flood Insurance Program], and specifically, on addressing target repetitive loss properties identified in FEMA's Repetitive Loss Strategy." The FMA grant program "provides funding to States, Indian tribal governments, and communities so that cost-effective measures are taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to buildings, manufactured homes, and other structures insurable under the National Flood Insurance Program [NFIP]. The long-term goal of FMA is to reduce or eliminate claims under the NFIP through mitigation activities."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Model Surveillance Program for Persons in Hazardous Waste Operations
"The paper describes a standardized medical surveillance program for a company engaged in hazardous waste operations at multiple locations in North America. The company implemented a program in 1986 to comply with the OSHA hazardous waste operations regulations. The initial program had deficiencies including: 1) lack of consistency in medical testing between different sites: 2) difficulty maintaining confidentially: 3) differences in occupational medicine expertise among examiners which could affect occupational disease recognition and/or employee risk factor screening."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Jones, Phil L.; Greaney, Peter P.
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Facility Security Committees: An Interagency Security Committee Standard
"The Facility Security Committees: An Interagency Security Committee Standard (the Interim Standard) establishes procedures for a Facility Security Committee (FSC) to use when presented with security issues that affect the entire facility. This Interim Standard is issued pursuant to the authority of the Interagency Security Committee (ISC) contained in Executive Order 12977, October 19, 1995, 'Interagency Security Committee,' as amended by Executive Order 13286, March 5, 2003. Each executive agency and department shall comply with this Interim Standard. The Standard is applicable to all buildings and facilities in the United States occupied by Federal employees for nonmilitary activities."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Courage to Care: Family Planning for Disasters: The Health Consequences of Disasters and Evacuation, What Patients Need to Know to Prepare
"This installment of Courage to Care is designed to facilitate doctor patient dialogue around the health implications of exposure to disasters, especially those that require the need for evacuation. The talking points below can help you ask the questions that will help your patients assess, prepare for and respond to an evacuation, and do so in a way that is responsive to their unique health needs. There is also a separate fact sheet for individuals and families that your office can download and distribute in your waiting area or clinic. In addition, you may disseminate this electronically to colleagues, and/or put it on your own organization's website to enhance your health outreach in the community. On the reverse side is a box to customize local contact information and health resources useful during disasters. As a healthcare provider to our Uniformed Services, your care impacts not just your patients and their families, but our national security, our national defense and our nation's health. The aftermath of major disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, provide valuable opportunities to reinforce important public health measures such as preparedness and evacuation."
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
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Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress 2008 Annual Report
This document details the activities of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) during 2008. "This Annual Report marks our Center's completion of 20 years of dedicated service to Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the Department of Defense, and our nation in advancing trauma knowledge and trauma-informed care. The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) continues to grow and expand its research, education and consultation in the domains of disaster psychiatry, the neuroscience of traumatic stress, understanding and support of first responders, and care of our nation's soldiers, sailors, airman and marines who experience high stress operations on behalf of national security. Through domestic disasters that endanger civilian communities and engage the support of our military, the Center has uniquely bridged the fields of disaster and military psychiatry. Our work integrates principles of disaster preparedness, response and recovery to foster individual, community, organizational and public health."
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
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Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Framework
"The goal for Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services (Vision 21) is simple yet profound: to permanently alter the way we treat victims of crime in America. The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) at the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and many others who work in the crime victims field recognize the need for a better way to respond to crime victims. We seek a comprehensive and systemic approach, drawing from a wide range of tangible yet difficult to access resources, including legislation, funding, research, and practice, to change how we meet victims' needs and how we address those who perpetrate crime. We have heard the call for a better way and it is our fervent hope that Vision 21 creates that path. Vision 21 grew from a series of meetings sponsored by OVC across the country, to facilitate conversations about the crime victims field. These meetings brought together crime victim advocates and allied professionals to exchange information and ideas about enduring and emerging issues and how we treat victims of crime. What emerged from those intense and fruitful discussions was a common understanding about current challenges in the victims field and, most importantly, a shared expression of the urgent need for change. Vision 21 is the result of those conversations. We believe it can be our call to action--the motivation to address the needs of crime victims in a radically different way. Our discussions and research centered on four topics: (1) defining the role of the crime victims field in the overall response to crime and delinquency in the United States; (2) building the field's capacity to better serve victims; (3) addressing enduring issues in the field; and (4) identifying emerging issues in the field. It was an ambitious agenda for a relatively brief timeframe, but one that was long overdue."
United States. Office of Justice Programs. Office for Victims of Crime
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Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Framework [website]
"The Vision 21 initiative is the first comprehensive assessment of the victim assistance field in nearly 15 years. In response to the Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services Final Report (The Report), $12.5 million has been allocated in the congressional Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, to address the recommendations in The Report. Opportunity for Real Change in Victim Services: For the first time, OVC [Office for Victims of Crime] will be able to provide operational funding to organizations that serve victims of crime at the national level, as well as American victims of domestic violence and sexual assault who are victimized abroad and on cruise ships. A portion of OVC's Vision 21 funding will support services and infrastructure to ensure victim assistance is provided to American Indian and Alaska Native crime victims. OVC will also offer state VOCA [Victims of Crime Act] administering agencies two competitive funding opportunities to support: Technology that can upgrade data reporting systems, make services to victims more accessible, support electronic case management, streamline the administrative burden on service providers, and increase their access to online evidence-based training; and Holistic legal assistance for all crime victims through the wraparound network model pioneered by OVC in Fiscal Year 2012, as well as a separate solicitation for a legal assistance technical assistance provider."
United States. Office of Justice Programs. Office for Victims of Crime
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ICS-CERT Advisories
ICS [Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team] advisories "provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits." This webpage provides links to the various advisories offered by ICS.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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ICS-CERT Joint Security Awareness Reports (JSARs)
This ICS [Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team] Joint Security Awareness Reports (JSARs) webpage offers links to the various cyber reports offered by ICS. "A JSAR Advisory is a Joint Security Advisory intended to provide awareness or solicit feedback from critical infrastructure owners, integrators, peers, and operators concerning ongoing cyber events or activity with the potential to impact critical infrastructure computing networks."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): NIMS Review and Update [2013]
"The National Incident Management System (NIMS) is foundational doctrine, providing a blueprint for unified all hazards incident support and management, and is applicable at all levels, including: local, state, territorial, tribal, and federal agencies as well as across the whole community. The NIMS is an integral part of the National Preparedness System that supports a unified national effort to build, sustain and deliver the core capabilities needed to protect, prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from disasters; and achieve the National Preparedness Goal of a secure and resilient Nation. The Homeland Security Act of 2002, Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006, and Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) -5 'Management of Domestic Incidents' require DHS to establish a process to maintain and refine the NIMS document. To this end, FEMA's National Integration Center was established to support this process; ensuring the NIMS remains current and consistent with public law, national policy, emergency management best practices and lessons learned from incidents or planned events, planning initiatives, training, and exercises. Consistent with this guidance, the National Integration Center is leading the National effort to update the NIMS. Engagement with the Whole Community is critical to ensuring that a national perspective is reflected in the resulting update."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Code of Federal Regulations (Annual Edition)
"The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) annual edition is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. The 50 subject matter titles contain one or more individual volumes, which are updated once each calendar year, on a staggered basis. The annual update cycle is as follows: titles 1-16 are revised as of January 1; titles 17-27 are revised as of April 1; titles 28-41 are revised as of July 1; and titles 42-50 are revised as of October 1. Each title is divided into chapters, which usually bear the name of the issuing agency. Each chapter is further subdivided into parts that cover specific regulatory areas. Large parts may be subdivided into subparts. All parts are organized in sections, and most citations to the CFR refer to material at the section level."
United States. Government Printing Office
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Serial No. 112-4: Improving Oil Spill Prevention and Response, Restoring Jobs, and Ensuring Our Energy Security: Recommendations from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session, February 11, 2011
From the opening statement of Frank A. LoBiondo: "The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill was unprecedented in size and duration. It left a tremendous natural and economic disaster in its wake. The joint Coast Guard and Department of Interior investigation into the causes of the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, as well as the failure of the blowout preventer to contain the spill is still ongoing. The subcommittee will examine the findings of the official investigation, once it is complete. While we await the findings of the investigation, the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, as well as the report of the national incident commander has helped highlight significant questions regarding the best methods for the industry and the Federal Government to use to prevent and respond to future oil spills. This hearing provides the subcommittees with the opportunity to hear recommendations of the Commission and the national incident commander on the changes needed to Federal laws and regulations to help reduce the likelihood of a similar event happening in the future." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Thad Allen, Donald F. Boesch, Terry D. Garcia, Eddie Bernice Johnson, and Frank A. LoBiondo.
United States. Government Printing Office
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Serial No. 113-54; Serial No. 113-39: Missing Weapons at the National Park Service: Mismanagement and Lack of Accountability, Joint Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Security of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session, August 2, 2013
This is the August 2, 2013 hearing on "Missing Weapons at the National Park Service: Mismanagement and Lack of Accountability," held before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Security of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation of the Committee on Natural Resources. From the opening statement of Jason Chaffetz: "Today's proceedings result from a need to further address questions and concerns raised in a June 27th report from this year issued by the U.S. Department of Interior's Office of Inspector General (OIG) entitled, 'Review of U.S. Park Police Weapons Accountability Program.' In the report, the OIG made some very serious charges, including finding insufficient: 'accountability, accuracy, and oversight' of the U.S. Park Police's firearms program. During the course of the OIG's investigation, the OIG found: 'credible evidence of conditions that would allow for theft and misuse of firearms and the ability to conceal the fact if weapons were missing.' Moreover, despite requirements to maintain an accurate firearms inventory, the OIG found that U.S. Park Police firearms inventory records were inaccurate and failed to account for hundreds of firearms." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Robert Knox and Jonathan B. Jarvis.
United States. Government Printing Office
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October 1963 Eruption of Kilauea Volcano Hawaii
"The eruption of October 5-6, 1963, occurred along an 8-mile section of the central part of the east rift zone of Kilauea Volcano. About 9 million cubic yards of lava was erupted from more than 30 fissures which show a slight right-offset en echelon pattern; the new lava covered an area of 1.3 square miles. A few hours before the actual outbreak, the summit of Kilauea began to subside, and strong harmonic tremor and earthquakes commenced at both the summit and the site of the later activity near Napau Crater. These phenomena were apparently caused by subsurface flow of magma from the summit reservoir through the rift zone conduits to the eruptive vents 8 miles distant. The lava of the eruption is a tholeiitic basalt with an average of 5.6 percent olivine. In general, lavas that erupted toward the eastern end of the eruptive zone are richer in olivine. These lavas, like others that erupted in historic times on the rift zone, show a slight differentiation when compared with lavas that erupted from the summit. The differentiation, apparently caused by cooling and crystallization within the rift zone, can be measured by the ratio (CaO [Calcium oxide]/FeO [Iron II oxide] + 0.9 Fe2O3 [Iron III oxide]), which is greater than 1 for summit lavas and which decreases systematically for lavas that erupted progressively eastward along the rift zone."
United States. Department of the Interior; Geological Survey (U.S.); United States. Government Printing Office
Moore, James Gregory, 1930-; Koyanagi, Robert Y., 1934-
1969
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USGS Woods Hole Science Center: National Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise
This webpage contains information on a USGS project to assess coastal vulnerability to sea-level rise. The project, within the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program's National Assessment, seeks to objectively determine the relative risks due to future sea-level rise for the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico coasts. Through the use of a coastal vulnerability index, or CVI, the relative risk that physical changes will occur as sea-level rises is quantified based on the following criteria: tidal range, wave height, coastal slope, shoreline change, geomorphology, and historical rate of relative sea-level rise. The website contains several open-file reports and detailed project information.
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Thieler, E. Robert (Edward Robert), 1965-; Williams, Jeff; Hammar-Klose, Erika S.
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United States Department of State: Trafficking in Persons Report
This website contains all of the Trafficking in Persons Reports since 2001. The Secretary of State submits the annual 'Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Trafficking in Persons Report' to Congress. This report covers 'severe forms of trafficking in persons' defined as: '(a) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.'
United States. Department of State
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Center for Hazards Research and Policy Development [website]
"The Center for Hazards Research and Policy Development (CHR) is a research unit at the University of Louisville that integrates the skills of engineers, natural scientists, urban planners, GIS specialists, professional researchers and social scientists in solving problems. CHR conducts research across a broad spectrum of issues including hazards preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery from technological and natural hazard events." This website contains a directory of faculty and staff, a calendar of events, details on current research, and an extensive list of publications.
University of Louisville. Center for Hazards Research and Policy Development
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G8 Information Centre [website]
The G8 (Group of Eight) Information Centre website contains information on all of the past summits and upcoming summits. This includes official documents and transcripts issued before and at each summit. It also includes statements from various government officials, details on ministerial meetings, and officials-level meetings. The website is viewable in English, French, Russian, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese.
University of Toronto. Munk Centre for International Studies
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Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq
This resource is an archived version of the United States Department of Defense website on Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq. The website contained information related to security issues in Iraq, quarterly reports about Iraq, and links to many other website related to homeland security.
United States. Department of Defense
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President's Trip to Europe & G8 Summit in Germany [George W. Bush Administration White House Archives]
This is the official White House collection of official material about George W. Bush's trip to various European countries and to Heiligendamm, Germany, in June 2007 to attend the G8 meetings. It includes speeches and news releases, and links to material about past summits back to 2002.
United States. White House Office
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Carteret County Emergency Services Management [website]
The Emergency Services Department is responsible for five key functions: Emergency Management, Emergency Medical Services, Paramedic Operations, Fire Marshal and E-911.
This website also provides all pertinent emergency management operations plans and information for the county.
Carteret County (N.C.)
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum [website]
"The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage the growing interdependence of the Asia-Pacific. APEC's 21 members aim to create greater prosperity for the people of the region by promoting balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative and secure growth and by accelerating regional economic integration. [...] APEC ensures that goods, services, investment and people move easily across borders. Members facilitate this trade through faster customs procedures at borders; more favorable business climates behind the border; and aligning regulations and standards across the region." APEC's projects and working groups focus on a number of issues related to homeland security, including: Agriculture, Anti-Corruption, Counter-Terrorism, Customs, Data Privacy, Emergency Preparedness, Energy, Food Security, Free Trade Agreements and Regional Trade Agreements, Import Regulation, Intellectual Property, Ocean and Fisheries, Science and Technology, Services Trade, Supply Chain Connectivity, Sustainable Development, Telecommunications and Information, and Tourism, among others.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum
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TOXMAP: Environmental Health Maps [website]
"TOXMAP® is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services of the US National Library of Medicine® (NLM) that uses maps of the United States and Canada to help users visually explore data primarily from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund Program. There are two versions of TOXMAP: the beta (or pre-release) of a Flash-based version, and TOXMAP classic. This FAQ will help you decide which version of TOXMAP to use. TOXMAP is a resource funded by the US Federal Government; it does not allow advertising on the site or endorse any company or product. It also cannot respond to questions about individual medical cases, provide second opinions, or make specific recommendations regarding therapy. Those issues should be addressed directly with your healthcare provider. TOXMAP's chemical and environmental health information is taken from NLM's TOXNET® and PubMed®, and from other authoritative sources."
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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FoodSHIELD [website]
"FoodSHIELD is a web-based system for communication, coordination, education, and training among the nation's food and agriculture sectors. This secure system allows public health and food regulatory officials at the local, state, and federal levels across the nation to work together. It also helps communicate food safety information among other government agencies." The mission of FoodSHIELD is to: "support federal, state and local governmental regulatory agencies and laboratories in defending the food supply through web-based tools that enhance threat prevention and response, risk management, communication and asset coordination, as well as public education."
Food Protection and Defense Institute (U.S.)
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Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce (IPET): Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System
"The FINAL Volumes of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce (IPET) are now available by clicking on the links below. All nine Volumes are FINAL. There is also a supplemental report, 'A General Description of Vulnerability to Flooding and Risk for New Orleans and Vicinity: Past, Present and Future' that provides a non-technical explanation of the risk assessment process for the pre-Katrina, 2007, and 2011 Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction Systems."
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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Emergency Management Institute: Practitioners Corner Contributions [website]
This Web page contains a number of resources recommended by emergency management practitioners. These publications are intended as practical advice for professionals in a variety of emergency management fields. Most publications are aimed at State and local practitioners.
Emergency Management Institute (U.S.)
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Food Security: The Federal Perspective: Portland FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Program [powerpoint]
This powerpoint presentation provides an overview of the FBI's WMD program. It begins with a definition of terrorism, a description of the terrorism threat in the United States, and FBI responsibilities. It then defines a weapon of mass destruction as any weapon designed or intended to cause death of serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors. There is an overview of why our food supply is vulnerable, as well as recommendations for protecting the food supply, and the Strategic Partnership Agroterrorism Initiative. The final section of this presentation provides case studies of incidents of agroterrorism in the United States.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events, September 11, 2001
This document contains maps and notes regarding the timeline of movements and positions of all four planes involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. Also included are all radio transmissions between air traffic control towers and all four planes from initial runway taxi to crash impact.
United States. Federal Aviation Administration
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Chronology of the September 11 Attacks and Subsequent Events Through October 24, 2001
This document contains a detailed timeline of events related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States and subsequent anthrax attacks as they occurred from September 11, 2001 to October 24, 2001.
United States. Federal Aviation Administration
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White House: National Security [George W. Bush Administration White House Archives]
This White House website focuses on national security issues being addressed by the President and the White House Office. It includes Presidential speeches and news releases, key documents, and information on White House staff and various Federal agencies.
United States. White House Office
