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Appendix A
Statement of Task
NHSRC SAFE BUILDINGS PROGRAM
Over the next three years, the EPA National Home-
land Security Research Center' s (NHSRC) Safe Build-
ings Program will provide research and technical
assistance on methods, technologies, equipment and
tools needed to protect built structures from threats and
deliberate attacks of biological warfare agents, chemi-
cal warfare agents, and toxic industrial chemicals.
The Safe Buildings Program has created a Research
Implementation Plan aimed at investigating contain-
ment, analysis, and decontamination issues relating to
chemical and biological warfare agents and toxic
industrial chemicals.
The Research Implementation Plan is designed to
consider the universe of building protection and de-
contamination needs (as best understood at the present
time), identify the highest priority needs for immediate
action, and how best to accomplish those needs. This
likely will mean that numerous high priority needs are
best addressed by another federal agency, the private
industry, or the emergency response community and
this organization will be instrumental in meeting these
needs. Each task will be addressed in a short (20 page)
report discussing the issues outlined below.
The charge of the committee will be to review and
comment in response to the following questions:
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· From the expert committee's viewpoint, has the
Research Implementation Plan completely and
accurately identified important issues and needs
in the buildings security arena? If the answer is
no, what issues and needs should be added?
From the expert committee' s viewpoint, are the
needs accurately prioritized and sequenced within
the issues? If the answer is no, what would be
recommended as adjustments and why is this the
case?
· From the expert committee' s viewpoint, are the
projects recommended for funding over the next
three years under each need appropriately
sequenced to move to the ultimate product or
products identified in the Appendix? If the
answer is no, what would the committee recom-
mend as adjustments and why is this the case?
· Overall, from the expert committee's viewpoint,
what changes to the RIP would be recommended
to improve its presentation in terms of content and
structure so as to more clearly convey the build-
ings security research and technical support pro-
gram that is described?
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