homeland security forum post and responses (need ASAP)

For this week’s discussion I decided to choose The US National Response Team (NRT) for one of my websites. A little about the NRT is the team is comprised of 15 Federal departments and their purpose is to coordinate emergency preparedness and react to oil and hazardous procedures. The Department of Defense, FEMA and the Department of State are a few of the agencies that work alongside NRT in order to protect against threats to the land, air and water (The US NRT, 2016).

I chose this particular website because the NRT not only covers CBRN related incidents, but the website also has links to the 15 Federal departments where you are able to quickly review each agencies purpose in the defense and recovery of our nation if an incident did occur. Additionally, the website provides other Laws such as the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act. It goes more in-depth of each law, once you click on each existing link, which further provides the understanding of each law.

The relation to WMD regulatory issues is the NRT has provided an Integrated Contingency Plan Guidance, which the main purpose of the contingency plan is for facilities to prepare emergency response plans and ensure those facilities are equipped to comply with several regulations that is integrated into one emergency response plan (The US NRT, 2016).

The strengths of the NRT website is that it provides an abundancy of information and external links to any additional information regarding the 15 Federal agencies involvement with the NRT, Furthermore, it provides data on the 13 Regional Response Teams (RRTs) that also include Alaska, Caribbean and the Pacific Basin. What is interesting about the RRTs for each area is that each website further breaks down their contingency plan regarding their region for the preparedness of not just WMDs, but all emergencies in general. A weakness that I saw within the website is that a lot of the resources such as the laws are over 20 years old. While this is not a weakness of the NRT so to speak, I would think that a lot of these Act’s may be outdated and should be reevaluated because how technology as evolved.

I would recommend this to other people because it does provide a lot of useful information not only on CBRN, but other info on how the NRT works alongside other government agencies in preparing and protecting the nation.

Aaron

Reference

The US National Response Team. (2016). https://www.nrt.org/Default.aspx.