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107470
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Following the terrorist attacks in 2001, much time and effort has been put toward improving catastrophic incident response. But recovery-the period following initial response that focuses on the long-term viability of the affected area-has received less attention. Recognizing the importance of being able to recover an area following a catastrophic incident, the Department of Defense, through its Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the Department of Homeland Security, through its Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T), created the Interagency Biological Restoration Demonstration (IBRD) program. IBRD was a 4-year program jointly managed and funded by DTRA and DHS S&T, the goal of which was to reduce the time and resources necessary to recover a wide urban area from an intentional release of Bacillus anthracis. Specific program objectives included understanding the social, economic, and operational interdependencies that affect recovery; establishing long-term coordination between the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security; developing strategic recovery/restoration plans; identifying and demonstrating technologies that support recovery; and exercising recovery activities and technology solutions. IBRD has made important first steps toward improving national preparedness in the area biological incident recovery. Specifically, IBRD has helped enhance the efficacy and efficiency of recovering large urban areas by developing consequence management guidance; identifying key S&T capabilities and integrating them with planning and guidance documents; and establishing key relationships across the federal interagency, federal-to-regional, civilian-to-military, and public-to-private stakeholders. Upon completion of IBRD in fall 2010, both DTRA and DHS S&T planned follow-on programs.
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107468
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2011.
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he prospect of cleaning and decontaminating a U.S. city after a wide-area biological attack is a daunting challenge.
Ten years after the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, the U.S. is still striving to understand and prepare for biological
remediation. As evidenced by the Amerithrax attacks, biological clean-up efforts are inherently time-consuming and costly.
Yet, the 2001 remediation response, which involved only a handful of heavily contaminated buildings, would pale in
comparison to a wide-area anthrax attack involving thousands of contaminated properties and outdoor spaces.
Faced with this challenge, policymakers and public of?cials are working to reduce the time and cost of remediation, to
limit public health risk, and to minimize long-term economic damage from such an event.
This special feature on biological remediation highlights the recent work and ?ndings of the Interagency Biological
Restoration Demonstration program (IBRD), a 4-year program jointly managed and funded by the Department of
Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) and the Department of Defense's (DoD) Defense
Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The program is aimed at reducing the amount of time and resources needed to recover
from an intentional wide-area urban release of Bacillus anthracis.
Topics for this special feature include regional and national recovery frameworks, the role of the private sector in
decontamination, the behavior of aerosolized B. anthracis, recommended approaches to decontamination for indoor and
outdoor spaces, and disposal of anthrax-contaminated waste. This feature is not intended to be a comprehensive review of
the work done under IBRD. Instead, it highlights some of IBRD's major accomplishments and ?ndings over the past 4
years of the project. This feature represents the ?rst publication of IBRD materials on remediation planning and response
frameworks, and the ?rst time that the public will have ready, open access to the results of IBRD remediation studies.
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