CHEMICAL WEAPONS IMPROVED RESPONSE PROGRAM (CWIRP) PLAYBOOK: GUIDELINES FOR RESPONDING TO AND MANAGING A CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION TERRORIST EVENT

As a result of the growing concerns regarding chemical/biological (C/B) terrorism, Congress passed Public Law 104-201, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997. This legislation, through Title XIV "Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction," tasked the Department of Defense (DoD) to assist federal, state, and local officials in deterrence of or response to threats or acts of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorism. This effort is commonly referred to as the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici (NLD) Domestic Preparedness Program (DPP). The NLD DPP called for the following: (1) The establishment of a training and exercise program that targets selected cities. (2) A national hotline/helpline program designed to receive and process inquiries from the responder community. (3) A program designed to identify systematic deficiencies in response capabilities of the community as a whole. In response to the latter of these objectives, the U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM) developed the Chemical Weapons Improved Response Program (CWIRP). The CWIRP partnered with federal, state, and local emergency response personnel to identify and resolve issues involving chemical terrorist events. This Playbook, one of several products of the CWIRP process, serves to identify the key issues that the program studied and provides basic recommendations and guidelines for enhancing response and management of a chemical incident. The CWIRP Playbook is divided into sections that focus on the sequence of response to a chemical incident. These sections are separated into the following areas: 1. Pre-Incident Plans and Procedures, 2. Initial Response - The First Hour, 3. Follow-On Response - The First Day, and 4. Long-Term Response and Recovery.

• Record URL:
  • http://transit-safety.volpe.dot.gov/training/Archived/EPSSeminarReg/CD/documents/Weapons/cwirp_playbook.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command

  Domestic Preparedness Chemical Team, 5183 Blackhawk Road
  Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD  United States  21010-5424
• Publication Date: 2000-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 132 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Chemicals; Disaster preparedness; Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency management; Emergency training; Guidelines; Recommendations; Terrorism; Threats; Weapons; Weapons of mass destruction
• Identifier Terms: Chemical Weapons Improved Response Program; National Defense Authorization Act; Nunn-Lugar-Domenici domestic preparedness program
• Uncontrolled Terms: Hotline programs
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00977594
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 2 2004 12:00AM