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document and several other guidelines. S E C T I O N 2 Institutional Context for Emergency Response 4For more information on EMAC, see (EMAC, 2008)
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5 introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) to stakeholders who could be called upon to provide specific expertise, assistance, or material during highway incidents, but who may be largely unfamiliar with ICS organization and operations.6 – I-95 Corridor Coalition's Supplemental Resource Guide to the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
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12 A Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies 8The following text was adapted from several Annex documents. The list of annexes is included in the Appendix K description of the NRF.
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The relevance is that Chapter 6I of the MUTCD 2003 edition, "Control of Traffic Through Traffic Incident Management Areas," requires that incident scenes must have maintenance of traffic (MOT) , or temporary traffic control (TTC)
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14 A Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies Figure 2. Implementation of HSPD-5, Management of Domestic Incidents.
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Emergency response planning is an ongoing process for state transportation agencies. The first pass through it, which most state transportation agencies have largely accomplished, is the most challenging.
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16 A Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies Figure 5. State transportation agency emergency response planning process using CPG 101.
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Federal Agencies Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Other DHS security agencies as appropriate Regional Coalitions Ad hoc regional coalitions; see Appendix C for details State Transportation Agency or Territorial/Tribal Equivalent: Emergency Management Office Traffic Operations Office/ITS Section Planning Office Maintenance Office Safety Office Motor Vehicle Compliance Office State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA)
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• Encourage transportation agencies to be full players within their state emergency management community and their role in providing the support needed for all applicable functions, participating actively in unified command, and participating in multi-agency communications and coordination. In most major incidents, the state transportation agency will fulfill a support role in the emergency response effort and receive direction from the state or some higher government authority.
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• Is the state and transportation agency level of communications interoperability adequate? • How does the response program relate to a broader emergency transportation operations program or a traffic incident management program?
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This is why all responders -- including transportation personnel -- are trained in NIMS/ICS. 20 A Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies Source: Adapted from NCHRP Report 525, Volume 6, 2005.
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Catastrophic Extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale, and/or government functions Any of th e foregoing on a massively destructive or threatening scale Months to years These may have any of the previous levels as the genesis. Multiple state EOC activations are probable as well as a highly populated ICS Table 2.
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