HS-ER-EI
Emerging Issues Committee.
Identifies new Homeland Security radiation issues, including Homeland Security
issues, monitors and assimilates requests for information, provides
leadership in identifying what type of publications will be developed,
assists the council chair in prioritizing goals based on emerging issues
that are tied to the CRCPD Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives, makes
recommendations for committee or task force membership based on the
member's interest in the emerging issue.
HS-ER-1 Task Force for
EPA's Creation of National Monitoring
System. To provide EPA input to develop an
expanded useful and viable program to assist states in assessing
environmental radiation levels.
HS-ER-2
Committee for Fostering Partnerships and Developing Operational
Guides to Support Emergency Preparedness and Response.
Sustain ongoing efforts to foster communication and partnerships
in radiological emergency response between state/local radiation
control programs and other national organizations and federal
agencies; plan and execute a professionally-facilitated Roundtable
to explore approaches for building or enhancing partnerships among
these parties.
HS-ER-3 Task Force for RDD/IND Scenarios as
Examples for State Preparations. Collect, review, and revise as
necessary up to ten scenarios that have been used by states and
federal agencies and evaluate putting them on the website. [G2 -
O1, O2]
HS-ER-4 Task Force for
Operational Guidelines Models and Tools for Recommendations and
Responses to RDD/IND (Radiological Dispersal Device/Improvised
Nuclear Device) Review the basic concept of operational
guidelines used in the DHS PAG document and review documents.
HS-ER-5 Committee on Emergency Response
Planning. Address the technical issues regarding any
radiological emergency planning or response. Included in but not
limited to these issues are
matters as
instrumentation, dose assessment or projections with any calculation
methods, protective drugs, decontamination, environmental analysis,
and radiological team equipment in general. The Committee is to
provide recommendations on the technology and approaches to the
various technical problems in emergency response and planning. To
work with various committees of the FRPCC in reviewing these technical
issues.
HS-ER-6 Task Force for
Development of CRCPD Comments on the EPA Protective Action
Guidelines. Review the EPA PAGs for radiological incidents
document, which is expected to be published for comment in 2008, and
develop draft CRCPD comments for submission to the Board for
approval.
HS-ER-7 Task Force on
Inter-Organizational Activities. To provide quarterly
reports on the Department of Homeland Security's Government
Coordinating Council (GCC) meetings.
HS-ER-8 Task Force to
Develop Nuclear Power Plant News Releases. Solicit and
review examples of draft news releases addressing radiological
health and environmental issues used by state radiation control
programs during all phases of nuclear power plant radiological
incidents or drill/exercises. This includes reviewing examples of
FAQs used by state radiation control programs to provide information
to the public. Also to develop “talking points” for use by agency
Public Information Officers to assist them in talking to the media
during a nuclear power plant radiological incident or
drill/exercise.
