Appendix A - Key Legal, Strategy, and Policy Documents and International Protocols: (1) Legal, National Strategy and National Policy Guidance: (A) Key Executive and Legislative Guidance: The following documents are key references when addressing the CS mission area, to include CBRN CM: (1) The White House Notice: Continuation of Emergency with Respect to Weapons of Mass Destruction. Reissued every year since 1994, the notice concerns EO 12938, and as amended, that a national emergency exists because of the worldwide threat posed by the proliferation and potential use of WMD. (2) PPD-1, Organization of the National Security Council System, establishes the process and structure for the national security council system. (3) HSPD-1, Organization and Operation of the Homeland Security Council, established the Homeland Security Council to ensure coordination of all HS-related activities among the executive departments and agencies and promote the effective development and implementation of all HS policies. (4) HSPD-3, The Homeland Security Advisory System, provides the guidelines for a comprehensive and effective means to disseminate information regarding the risk of terrorist acts to federal, state, and local authorities and the American people. This document establishes the five threat conditions and their respective protective measures. (5) National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction: states, As part of our defense, the United States must be fully prepared to respond to the consequences of WMD use on our soil, whether by hostile states or by terrorists. We must also be prepared to respond to the effects of WMD use against our forces deployed abroad and to assist friends and allies.Refer to the classified version of this strategy and its applicable annex for details concerning WMD CM. (6) HSPD-5, Management of Domestic Incidents, assigns the Secretary of the DHS as the PFO for domestic incident management to coordinate the USGs resources utilized in response to, or recovery from terrorist attacks, major disasters, or other emergencies. Additionally, HSPD-5 established the NIMS to provide a consistent nationwide approach for federal, state, and local governments to work effectively and efficiently together to prepare for, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents. (7) PPD-8, National Preparedness, is aimed at strengthening the security and resilience of the US through systematic preparation for the threats that pose the greatest risk to the security of the Nation, including acts of terrorism, cyberspace attacks, pandemics, and catastrophic natural disasters. (8) Federal Strategic Guidance Statement for Chemical Attacks in the United States: The strategic guidance statement, issued pursuant to HSPD-8, Annex 1 (National Preparedness), guides USG efforts in addressing chemical attacks based on the applicable National Planning Scenarios along with threats of attacks using other possible chemical weapons. (9) HSPD-9, Defense of United States Agriculture and Food, establishes a national policy to defend the agriculture and food system against terrorist attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies. (10) HSPD-10, Biodefense for the 21st Century, outlines the essential pillars of our biodefense program and provides specific directives to further strengthen the significant gains put in place during the past three years. These pillars include threat awareness, prevention and protection, surveillance and detection, and response and recovery, which include response planning, mass casualty care, risk communication, medical countermeasures, and decontamination. (11) HSPD-14, Domestic Nuclear Detection, seeks to protect against the unauthorized importation, possession, storage, transportation, development, or use of a nuclear explosive device, fissile material, or radiological material in the US, and to protect against attack using such devices or materials against the people, territory, or interests of the US. (12) HSPD-15, US Strategy and Policy on the War on Terror[ism] (U), discusses the coordination of all instruments of national power to meet six US goals for the war on terrorism: deny terrorists resources, enable partner nations to counter terrorism, combat WMD, defeat terrorists and their organizations, counter support for terrorism in coordination with partner nations, and establish conditions that counter ideological support for terrorism. (13) HSPD-18,Medical Countermeasures Against Weapons of Mass Destruction, describes the principles from which national guidance is derived for addressing the challenges presented by the diverse CBRN threat spectrum, optimizing the investments necessary for medical countermeasures development, and ensuring that USG activities significantly enhance domestic and international response and recovery capabilities. Mitigating illness and preventing death from CBRN threats are the principal goals of the USG medical countermeasure efforts. (14) HSPD-19, Combating Terrorist Use of Explosives in the United States, establishes a national policy, and calls for the development of a national strategy and implementation plan, on the prevention and detection of, protection against, and response to terrorist use of explosives in the US