from 2016 USCG Spill Manual U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Consequence Management Advisory Division (CMAD).
(1) Overview. EPA’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Consequence Management Advisory Division (CMAD) provides 24/7 scientific and technical expertise for all phases of consequence management, including sampling, decontamination, and clearance. (2) Responsibility. (a) CMAD provides tactical options for screening, sampling, monitoring, decontamination, clearance, and waste management. In addition, CMAD provides toxicological/exposure assessment during the decontamination of buildings during an incident involving releases of radiological, biological, or chemical contaminants. CMAD maintains critical partnerships with EPA’s National Homeland Security Research Center and EPA’s special teams, as well as other federal and international partners. (b) The CMAD also facilitate the process for an FOSC to use EPA’s Portable Highthroughput Integrated Laboratory Identification System (PHILIS) and Airborne Spectral Photometric Environmental Collection Technology (ASPECT). PHILIS is a mobile laboratory for the on-site analysis of environmental samples contaminated with chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial compounds. (c) Based near Dallas, Texas, and able to deploy within one hour, ASPECT is the only airborne real-time chemical and radiological detection, infrared and photographic imagery platform in the U.S. ASPECT is available to assist local, national, and international agencies supporting hazardous substance response and radiological incidents. (3) Request Procedures. For requesting CMAD assistance or the PHILIS or ASPECT resources, FOSCs should contact EPA’s Emergency Operations Center at 202-564-3850. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
