Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1 : "EPA serves as a support agency to the FBI for technical operations, and a support agency to DHS/FEMA for CM. EPA provides technical personnel and supporting equipment to the LFA during all aspects of WMD incidents. EPA assistance may include threat assessment; DEST and regional emergency response team deployment; LFA advisory requirements, technical advice, and operational support for chemical, biological, and radiological releases; consultation; agent identification; hazard detection and reduction; environmental monitoring; sample and forensic evidence collection/analysis; identification of contaminants; feasibility assessment; clean-up; and on-site safety, protection, prevention, decontamination, and restoration activities. EPA and USCG share responsibilities for response to oil discharges into navigable waters and releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants into the natural and physical environment. EPA provides the pre-designated federal on-scene coordinator for inland areas while USCG coordinates resources for the containment, removal, and disposal activities and resources during an oil, hazardous substance, or WMD incident in coastal areas". (JCS/DoD, Homeland Security (JP 3-26), 2005, pp. II 20-21)
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