Department of Energy (DOE) 1
Department of Energy (DOE) 1 : "DOE serves as a support agency to the FBI for technical operations and a support agency to DHS/FEMA for CM [Consequence Management]. DOE provides scientific and technical personnel and equipment in support of the LFA during all aspects of WMD incidents. DOE assistance can support both CrM [Crisis Management] and CM activities with capabilities such as threat assessments, domestic emergency support team (DEST) deployment, LFA advisory requirements, technical advice, forecasted modeling predictions, and assistance in the direct support of operations. Deployable DOE scientific technical assistance and support includes capabilities such as search operations; access operations; diagnostic and device assessment; radiological assessment and monitoring; identification of material; development of federal protective action recommendations; provision of information on the radiological response; render safe operations; hazards assessment; containment, relocation and storage of special nuclear material evidence; post-incident cleanup; and on-site management and radiological assessment to the public, the White House, and members of Congress and foreign governments. All DOE support to a federal response will be coordinated through a senior DOE official". (JCS/DoD, Homeland Security (JP 3-26), 2005, p. II-20)
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