"ODP's [Office of Domestic Preparedness] major training partner is the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC), through which ODP identifies, develops, tests, and delivers training to state and local emergency responders. The NDPC includes: (1) ODP's Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP): CDP is ODP's all-hazards training facility. It provides advanced, hands-on training to members of the emergency response community in the areas of command, advanced hazmat, and tactical operations. CDP is the only WMD training facility that provides hands-on training to civilian emergency responders in a toxic chemical agent environment. (2) New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT): NMIMT, a world leader in explosives research, serves as the lead NDPC partner for explosives, firearms, and incendiary devices training. New Mexico Tech also delivers a program on suicide bombing prevention. (3) Louisiana State University (LSU): LSU provides training and expertise in the areas of law enforcement, bioterrorism, agricultural terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and mass casualty incidents. (4) Texas A&M University System, Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX): TEEX develops and conducts national WMD preparedness training for all emergency response disciplines, as well as courses in incident management/unified command, threat and risk assessments, operations for public works, and WMD operations for emergency medical services. TEEX also conducts a structural collapse technician course to build state capabilities for urban search and rescue operations. (5) Department of Energy's Nevada Test Site (NTS): NTS conducts radiological and nuclear training at NTS and via mobile training teams. It also develops and delivers radiological/nuclear mobile training at the awareness and operations levels and conducts trainthe- trainer courses for first responders across the country". (DHS, Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness, 25 July 2005, p. 3)