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A Review of the EPA Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan Parts I and II (2004) / Chapter Skim
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PART I: Overarching Issues and Research and Technical Support Needs Assessment
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... Part I Overarching Issues and Research and Technical Support Needs Assessment
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... Example framework for depicting the contributions of the Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan to the broader needs for protecting the nation's water systems (including drinking water and wastewater)
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... was tasked to review the EPA Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan and provide an initial assessment according to the following questions: .
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... Water Security Implementation Plans for Utilities and Regional Agencies Figure ES-1. Example framework for depicting the contributions of the Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan to the broader needs for protecting the nation's water systems (including drinking water and wastewater)
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... The Action Plan should clarify which of its research activities are short-term, applied efforts and highlight long-term research needs, so that a collaboration of agencies could work to ensure that substantive, mission-oriented research questions in water security are not overlooked. REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT NEEDS IDENTIFIED IN THE ACTION PLAN The drinking water research needs within the Action Plan are lengthy, detailed, and if met would go a long way toward providing information, tools, and methods necessary to help water managers respond appropriately to threats or attacks on water supply systems.
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... Protecting Physical and Cyber Infrastructure The EPA Action Plan identifies three important needs that, with some changes in emphasis, would address most of the major research and technical support challenges related to protecting physical and cyber infrastructure. One significant gap is the need for assessments of costs and benefits associated with various countermeasures.
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... Training modules and evaluation exercises for analytical methodologies and monitoring systems. Containment, Treatment, Decontamination, and Disposal Four broad research and technical support needs were described in the Action Plan to address the issue of containment, treatment, decontamination, and disposal of contaminants in a water system.
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... (This need is one component, or "play book," within the overall response guidance.) Contingency Planning and Infrastructure Interdependencies The Action Plan outlines three research and technical support needs that with minor changes would substantially address the topic of contingency planning and infrastructure interdependencies.
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... Methods anti means to communicate threat risks to local communities and to respond to customers and the media in the case of an attack on drinking water systems, the success of which will depend upon the prior existence of an established relationship with communities that is the result of a detailed risk communication planning process. Wastewater The Action Plan presents a short overview of the extensive array of security issues facing the wastewater infrastructure.
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... An updated assessment of the possible health, safety and environmental risks related to potentially hazardous substances used by wastewater utilities or intentionally introduced into wastewater collection and treatment systems, or stormwater conveyance and treatment systems, including any impact on residuals management operations (sewage sludge)
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  • drinking water
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  • support projects
  • security research

  • threat scenarios
  • water supply
  • water supplies
  • response guidance
  • security prevention

  • proposed research
  • regional agencies
  • communication planning
  • following rewritten
  • implementation plans

  • integrated water
  • security issues
  • security implementation
  • support action
  • cyber infrastructure

  • strategies action
  • contingency planning
  • communications plan
  • recovery actions
  • guidance document

  • information resources
  • communication strategies
  • prevention strategies
  • contaminant monitoring
  • protecting physical


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