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# Ms. Dana S Tulis

##                 Director, Emergency Management (CG-5RI)            

## U.S. Coast Guard

Ms. Tulis assumed the duties of the Director, Emergency Management (CG-5RI), in January 2016.  She is responsible for establishing, developing and implementing policies, strategies and goals to meet Coast Guard’s incident preparedness and response mission.  She provides strategic programmatic oversight for the Offices of Search and Rescue Policy, Emergency Management and Disaster Response, and Marine Environmental Response Policy.  

Prior to this position, Ms. Tulis served as both the Deputy Office Director and Acting Office Director for the Office of Emergency Management, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  She managed a $250 million budget and 75 staff, chaired the 15-Agency National Response Team and provided direction to the Regional Response Teams and the Agency’s National Incident Coordination Team for preparedness and response for large scale national emergencies.  She provided leadership to EPA’s preparedness and response programs for chemical, biological, and radiological and nuclear agents including the management of mobile analytical assets.  She also provided strategic direction to the Agency’s chemical and regulatory prevention programs. During the Deepwater Horizon response, Ms. Tulis served as the Agency’s National Incident Coordinator, overseeing the Headquarters’ Emergency Operations Center, and coordinating with USCG, NOAA and EPA leadership.  She provided Agency guidance to responses such as Super Sandy, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Joplin Tornado, Yellowstone River Oil Spill, Midwest flooding as well as day-to-day Emergency Responses and Removal actions.

Prior to OEM, Ms. Tulis served as the Center Director, Analytical and Operations/Data Quality Center, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response at EPA. In this role, she directly supported the World Trade Center response and ensured the sampling and interpretation of over 235,000 laboratory analyses and supported the risk assessment and cleanup efforts.

Ms. Tulis’ prior positions at EPA included serving as the Director of the Implementation Division and Chief of the Operations Branch in the Office of Underground Storage Tanks, OSWER.

Ms. Tulis is a native New Yorker; possesses bachelor’s degrees in biology and psychology from Colby College and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Duke University.

Ms. Tulis has received special commemorative awards for the National Anthrax Cleanup, the World Trade Center Response, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; five EPA Agency Awards including the Science Award for Bacillus Anthracis and seven EPA Bronze Medals.

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