EPA's Homeland Security Decontamination Research Approach for Wide Area Incidents
Citation:
Brooks, L. EPA's Homeland Security Decontamination Research Approach for Wide Area Incidents. The CBRNe World Series 2021, NA, July 15, 2021.
Impact/Purpose:
This presntation will provide an overview of HSRP's decontamination research approach for addressing needs fro EPA's program and regional offices along with critical stakeholders at the state, local, and tribal levels. The workshop participants will be members for the CBRNe reseach community interested in this work and could become potential partners in future R&D projects within HSRP.
Description:
HSRP performs applied research that delivers relevant and timely methods, tools, data, technologies, and technical expertise in support of federal, regional, state, tribal, water systems, and local community resilience. HSRP has engaged partners to identify the high priority homeland security threats. For wide area contamination, HSRP will conduct research to improve the response and recovery capabilities for chemical, biological, radiological (CBR), and oil spill incidents. HSRP will adapt suitable methodologies that have proven their effectiveness and usability for success in real-world settings via high quality science with laboratory and field tests as well as modeling. HSRP will perform research to understand the community needs, maintain the good stakeholder relationships, and effective risk communication.