EPA, 2006. - 311 p.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Introduction
Presentations and Associated Question and Answer Periods
Opening Remarks and Plenary Session
- Opening Remarks; Conceptual Timelines for Decontamination Events
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Chemical/Biological
Restoration Programs
- Evidence Awareness for Remediation Personnel at Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) Crime Scenes
General Decontamination Issues
- Validation of Environmental Sampling Methods: Current Research and Related Projects
Decontamination Research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National
Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regulation of Biological Decontamination
Test Method Update (Office of Pesticide Programs [OPP] Sterilant Registration Protocol
Development)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Partner in Protecting the Homeland
- Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) Decontamination Research and Development
Activities
- A Decontamination Concept of Operations
- Decontamination and Consequence Management Division (DCMD) Disposal Research
- A Sampling of Some of Canada’s Decontamination Work
- The Government Decontamination Service (GDS): The United Kingdom (UK) Perspective on
Decontamination Approaches
- Environmental Lab Response Network (eLRN) Support and Standard Analytical Methods
Decontamination Technologies
- Bacillus anthracis Spore Detection Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)
- Chlorine Dioxide Fumigation Developments
- Decontamination Technology Testing and Evaluation
- Vapor Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP) Fumigation Technology Update
- Laboratory Decontamination of 65 Room New Animal Facility Using Chlorine Gas
- Decontamination Research—A New Approach
- Decontamination of Toxins and Vegetative Cells Using Chlorine Dioxide
- Restoration of Major Transportation Facilities Following a Chemical Agent Release
- The Development of Modified Vaporous Hydrogen Peroxide (mVHP) for Chemical- and
Biological-Weapons Decontamination
- Spore Contamination: What Concentration Deposits, What Resuspends, and Can We Inhibit Its
Transport?
- Studies of the Efficacy of Chlorine Dioxide Gas in Decontamination of Building Materials
Contaminated with Bacillus anthracis Spores
Decontamination Research and Development
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Homeland Security Research Center
(NHSRC) Ongoing Research Efforts in Understanding the Efficacy and Application of
Decontamination Technologies
- Rapid Methods to Plan, Verify and Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Decontamination Process.
- Agent Fate Program
- Stakeholder Issues Surrounding Chemical Agent Restoration
Radiological Dispersion Device Decontamination
- Strategy for National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC) Radiological
- Decontamination Research and Development Program
- Decontamination Technologies for Urban Radiological Dispersion Device (RDD) Recovery
- Radiological Dispersion Device (RDD) Aerosolization Experiments: History/Applications/Results
Water Decontamination
- Water Distribution System Decontamination
- Decontamination of Water Infrastructure
- Adherence and Decontamination of Chemicals and Biologicals
- Measurement and Analysis of Building Water System Contamination and Decontamination
- Water Decontamination and Detection
Foreign Animal Disease/Avian Influenza Decontamination
- Determining the Virucidal Mechanism of Action for Foreign Animal Disease
- Protection of U.S. Agriculture: Foreign Animal Disease Threats
Panel Discussion—Lessons Learned, Research and Development Needs, Technology Gaps
Agenda
List of Participants
Presentation Slides
