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Appendix B - Terminology
Pages 36-37

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... Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Secretaries of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to ensure that the combined federal, state, and local response capabilities are adequate to respond quickly and effectively to a terrorist attack, major disease outbreak, or other disaster affecting the national agriculture or food infrastructure, and to develop a coordinated agriculture and food-specific standardized response plan that will be integrated into the National Response Plan. Incident Command System (ICS)
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... Nonstandard Traffic Control -- minimal traffic control measures that should be replaced with standard traffic control devices as soon as they become available. Operations Section -- the section of the Incident Command Structure typically assigned responsibility for all activities focused on reducing the immediate hazard, saving human life and property, establishing situational control, and restoring normal operations.
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  • homeland security
  • national response
  • animal disease
  • response plan
  • emergency response

  • incident management
  • incident command
  • national incident
  • command structure
  • foreign animal

  • state veterinarian
  • security presidential
  • management assistance
  • agriculture official
  • public information

  • information officer
  • law enforcement
  • overall responsibility
  • emergency management
  • personal protective

  • protective equipment
  • local incident
  • eliminate traffic
  • nonstandard traffic
  • local response

  • national agriculture
  • standard traffic
  • traffic flow
  • uniform traffic
  • ensuring traffic


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