# Presentation: 171576

## ROLE OF CSEPP

**ROLE OF CSEPP**

## OBJECTIVE

- CA96

- Identify the major emergency planning steps to protect individuals in the event of a chemical warfare agent accident

## CSEPP

**CSEPP**

- Established to provide a consistent framework for emergency planning for states and communities at all 8 installations
- Each community potentially affected by a chemical warfare accident is responsible for deciding how to prepare for possibility of a release of chemical warfare agent
- Defines comprehensive scope for decisions and defines elements that State and local decision-makers should address

## CSEPP

**CSEPP**

- Jointly managed by the Army and FEMA
- FEMA has authority, responsibility, and accountability for working with State and local governments to develop off-post preparedness
- Army maintains original role for chemical stockpile storage and disposal and for on-post emergency response

## SIGNEDMEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING1997

**SIGNED****MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING****1997**

- Identifies specific Army and FEMA responsibilities
- Defines areas where each agency can provide expertise
- Outlines where cooperation between agencies will result in more efficient use of personnel and material resources

## BASIC GOAL OF EMERGENCYMANAGEMENT PROGRAM

**BASIC GOAL OF EMERGENCY****MANAGEMENT PROGRAM**

- Protection of people
- stimulate prompt and effective actions by public critical to achieving goal
- select basic protective actions
- other activities help implement protective actions once selected

## CSEPP PROTECTIVE ACTIONS

- Two basic protective actions
- evacuation
- sheltering-in-place
- People take these actionsto protect themselvesafter receiving warning

- CA101

- Evacuation

- Shelter-in-place

## EMERGENCY PLANNING

**EMERGENCY PLANNING**

- Seeks to anticipate possible emergencies and resources needed at time of emergencies
- Identifies available resources and resource shortfalls so deficiencies can be eliminated or reduced

- Emergency planning is crucial for effective protective actions

## CRITICAL COMMAND ANDCONTROL FUNCTION

- Provide timely and accurate public alert, notification, and information to get quickest public response
- Other functions (e.g., medical assistance, mass care) can be provided initially by local resources and augmented later

- CA103

## EMERGENCY RESPONSE

- Emergency response officials must quickly decide which protective actions are appropriate for different portions of affected area
- make complex decision within tight time constraints
- Emergency response plan should strive to simplify decision process and reduce time devoted to decision process
- careful analysis and pre-established criteria for selecting appropriate protective action needed before emergency situation

- CA104

## EMERGENCY RESPONSE

- Decision-making process normally responsibility of elected officials; normally county commissioners
- may be shared with other agencies or department heads

- CA105

- County commissioner(s) normally responsible for emergency response decisions

## EMERGENCY PLANNING ZONES

**EMERGENCY PLANNING ZONES**

## IMMEDIATE RESPONSE ZONE(IRZ)

**IMMEDIATE RESPONSE ZONE****(IRZ)**

- Most critical for protective action decisions because of close proximity to accident
- Less than 1 hour to respond during windspeed of 3 meters per second (6.7 mph)
- Approximately 10 km (6 miles)from stockpile storage location
- boundaries adjusted for political boundaries, natural features, and population distribution

- Stockpile
- Storage
- Location

**IRZ**

- Approx.

- 10 km

## PROTECTIVE ACTION ZONE(PAZ)

**PROTECTIVE ACTION ZONE****(PAZ)**

- Less than 5 hours to respond during windspeed of 1 to 2 meters per second(2.2 to 4.4 mph)
- Approximately 18 to 35 km (11 to 22 miles) from stockpile storage location
- Public officials would likely have time to confer on appropriate protective action decisions

**IRZ**

**PAZ**

- Stockpile Storage Location

- Approx.

- 18-35 km

## PRECAUTIONARY ZONE (PZ)

**PRECAUTIONARY ZONE (PZ)**

- Can be established
- in case of catastrophic accident
- as host area for evacuees
- Offers advantages of time, distance, and multiple options

## PROTECTIVE ACTION DECISIONS

**PROTECTIVE ACTION DECISIONS**

- Choices must be weighed against realistic considerations
- time
- weather conditions
- highway conditions
- public’s general state of readiness
- Chemical Event Emergency Notification System greatly helps in selecting protective actions
- allows community officials to react quickly

## System must be reliable and capable of instantaneous activation

- CA111

**ALERT AND NOTIFICATION**

**Alerting phase:  Attract attention of public**

**Notification phase:  Communicate protective**
**action information**

## NOTIFICATION METHODS

- EAS as part of commercial broadcast radio stations
- Combination of broadcast over radio, television, and cable television

- CA112

- Broadcast of warning

## IRZ NOTIFICATION METHODS

- CA113

**IRZ NOTIFICATION METHODS**

- Combination of indoor and outdoor warning
- Outdoor electronic sirens with voice capabilities
- Indoor alerting devices

- Omni-directional siren

- Tone alert radio

## PAZ NOTIFICATION METHODS

**PAZ NOTIFICATION METHODS**

- Primary systems
- electronic broadcast media
- EAS
- Supplemental systems
- sirens for selected urban residential areas
- indoor warning for selected institutions and public congregation facilities

- Media broadcast

- Warning for institutions

## TRAFFIC AND ACCESS CONTROL

**TRAFFIC AND ACCESS CONTROL**

- Quick control of access into affected areas
- Mass evacuation, control of traffic crucial to timeliness and efficiency of evacuation

## EVACUEE SUPPORT

**EVACUEE SUPPORT**

- Various activities designed to process and accommodate evacuees
- Plan for receiving potentially contaminated
- train evacuation and mass care personnel to recognize signs and symptoms of agent exposure
- 2 primary components:
- reception - process of receiving and registering evacuees, determining needs, and assigning appropriate resources
- mass care - providing shelter, food, family reunification, limited medical care, and social services