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Amber Waves 2012 Panel Discussion Kim Steves – William Brantley
Colleen O’Laughlin - Ed Tupin – John Jensen
AMBER WAVES - INTRODUCTION The goal of Amber Waves 2012 (AW12) was to
foster interagency collaboration among federal, state, and local organizations with equities in radiological emergency response.
AW12 was conceived as a Tier II full-scale exercise (FSE), however, a number of constraints emerged that made conduct of a full-scale exercise (FSE) unrealistic.
The Exercise was re-scoped to involve a series of workshops and discussion based exercises.
Amber Waves - Introduction Scenario
Terrorists detonate two RDDs in Kansas City Region
(Leavenworth, KS and Kansas City, MO) Cs-137 – 1200 Ci Am-241 – 50 Ci
National Archives
Detonation Location
IRS
Federal Reserve Bank - Kansas City
Downtown – Leavenworth
AMBER WAVES - INTRODUCTION In total, there were seven exercise events
including: Technical Workshop – June 7-8, 2012 REAC/TS Training – June 9, 2012 Senior Leadership Seminar – July 17, 2012 Tabletop Exercise – July 18, 2012 Kansas Community Reception Center Exercise –
September 25, 2012 Food and Feed Workshop – September 26, 2012 FRMAC Transfer Workshop – September 27, 2012
AMBER WAVES - INTRODUCTION Our discussions today will focus on
Classify and Notify Evacuation and Relocation Food and Feed Turnover of FMRAC Closing Remarks
Classify and Notify
Understanding what has happened and how to respond
CLASSIFY / NOTIFY Leavenworth County identified gaps:
How to secure scene with limited law enforcement
How to identify Radioactive Material is involved Hospitals (two) each only have one hand-held
radiation detection meter/contamination concerns/worried well
KANSAS & MISSOURI
CLASSIFY / NOTIFY Need to better understand command structure &
incident management concepts Design of the ICS One Joint Operations Center (JOC) could grow to Two Will states share a Joint Field Office (JFO) or each have
their own? UACG – Unified Area Coordinating Group Multiple JICs at various federal, state and county levels One FRMAC to serve all three states. Where? Where are the feds sending their people? Everywhere!
Advisory Team stays home and supports the White House
Feds “Leaning Forward”
KANSAS & MISSOURI
Communication &
Coordination Pathways
Local JICs
Local JICs
UACG
FBI
State JIC - Kansas
FBI
CLASSIFY / NOTIFY Public Information Issues/Concerns
Multiple JICs [states, locals, federal (HQ) , federal (onsite)]
Potential for mixed messages from multiple “official” sources
What happens when politicians/White House get involved?
How to coordinate information and timeliness of coordination
Sharing of information between JICs
Local PIO (and state) being overrun by vast federal resources
Emergency Public Warnings/Rumor Control
Messaging to worried well - the fear of the word “radiation”
How to communicate scientific and technical data
KANSAS & MISSOURI
CLASSIFY / NOTIFY Concepts for coordinating and integrating
command and control over many agencies must be better developed and then exercised Working relationships between agencies improves each
time they work together. The evolution of Unified Command to address a
very wide scale, multi-jurisdictional event was explored There is a great diversity of thought in responding There are various issue still to address
Scaling the response for an event this large The role of the EOC vs. the IC/UC in the field
EPA & DOE
Evacuation & Relocation
Addressing the public safety
EVACUATION/RELOCATION
Bridge over Missouri River
between Leavenworth, KS
and Missouri
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EVACUATION/RELOCATION Senior leaders realized they have to be
ready to make tough choices with limited data
All agencies realized that there will be manpower, equipment & communications issues
A real event will probably have more contamination of responders than was discussed & anticipated
EPA & DOE
Food and Feed
Looking at the long term affects and addressing possible solutions
FOOD & FEED WORKSHOP There is a need to get more stakeholders involved in
discussions of the response and recovery effort – Farmers and food manufacturers Agricultural and food processing industry associations State and Federal food and agricultural product regulators
Most private food and agriculture industry representatives and farmers are unfamiliar with radiological emergency response and protective actions concepts
Federal and State radiological health advisors and State agriculture representatives should develop concept of operations that prioritizes what needs to be sampled and assessed during various phases of the event– types of food (milk, perishable mature crops, forage) agricultural areas (feedlots) or activities (processing plants)
USDA
FOOD & FEED WORKSHOP It was predicted that some mature (highly perishable)
contaminated crops would not be allowed to be harvested for consumption regardless of contamination levels, these commodities should be identified in advance to a avoid unnecessary sampling during an event or exercise
USDA
FOOD & FEED WORKSHOP What We Learned/Action Items:
Water consumption protective measures needs to be included in the Food and Feed Workshop
Having private industry participation was critical – helped recognize business and economic issues from a different perspective
The Food & Feed Workshop identified issues and allowed for good discussions
USDA
FOOD & FEED WORKSHOP What We Learned/Action Items:
FDA will perform sampling in facilities which they regulate USDA and FDA working with FBI – samples are “evidence”
and will not be shared “Food Safety Modernization Act” mandates FDA to work with
states Kansas Dept of Agriculture “de-population” of concern to
USDA Prussian Blue approved by FDA only for humans, not animals Are future crops/milk and feed animals from this land
sellable? Need “quick reference” guide for who is responsible for
which agricultural issues Need to do some Message Maps addressing radiation and
agriculture
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Turnover
Transferring management of the FRMAC and moving towards recovery
FRMAC TRANSFER WORKSHOP DOE will work closely with the EPA to facilitate a
smooth transition of responsibility at mutually agreeable time After consultation with
DHS and the Unified Coordination Group All State, tribal, and local governments
When specific criteria have been met as detailed in the Nuc/Rad Annex to the NRF The immediate emergency condition is stabilized. Offsite releases of radioactive material have ceased …. The offsite radiological conditions are evaluated / are
assessed .... An initial long-range monitoring plan has been with all
stakeholder…. EPA has received adequate assurances the required resources,
personnel, funds for the duration of the Federal response ….EPA & DOE
FRMAC TRANSFER WORKSHOP Major accomplishment: explaining to the States that
the FRMAC transfer is a collaborative effort among many parties – States and other federal agencies, beyond DOE and EPA To ensure that cleanup goals are supported through monitoring
and assessment Multi-State, multi-agency participation essential to FRMAC
transfer
Development of long term monitoring plan in collaboration with states Plan for necessary monitoring in support of cleanup Plan for monitoring during recovery
The issue of waste streams & waste disposal was not fully addressed. The states should not assume that all waste will be shipped out
of the areaKANSAS & MISSOURI
FRMAC TRANSFER WORKSHOP What We Learned/Action Items:
How are the roles divided up? Who pays for long term monitoring? Litigation & legal challenges may stall clean-up Lab resources are limited Decontamination of buildings, soil, homes, roads,
bridges, parks, monuments, hospitals, fire/police stations, factories, etc. may be requested
Waste issue is huge. Who pays for it? Development of a clean-up strategy and clean-up level
will be complicated; public education is needed How to control radiation spreading to outside areas?
KANSAS & MISSOURI
FRMAC TRANSFER WORKSHOP What We Learned/Action
Items: At some point (~45 days out in
Amber Waves) DOE wants to turn over leadership / control of the FRMAC to EPA
There is a guidance document to help implement the transfer of leadership of FRMAC
The end goal is a signed agreement
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Closing Remarks
FINAL THOUGHTS
KANSAS & MISSOURI