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E & E has transitioned environmental spill contingency exercise services to a wider audience—including all of the response professions and response organizations at the federal, state, and local levels—through application of the latest Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) methodology to both natural and man-made (i.e., terrorist) incidents.

Contra Costa County Emergency Medical Service Preparedness Program, California
Provided certified first responder awareness (FRA), first responder operations (FRO), decontamination team operations (DTO), and Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS) training and developed, presented, and evaluated drills and exercises for staff of hospitals, clinics, and the emergency medical service system throughout Contra Costa County.

Transportation Terrorist Attack Prevention Tabletop Exercise, New York City
For the transportation infrastructure partners of the New York City metropolitan area, developed and conducted an intelligence management exercise to test how various organizations would react and use potential terrorist attack information, in various formats, regarding the city's tunnels and subways.

Public Heath Preparedness Programs, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Oregon, and Texas
Provided more than 30 HSEEP-compliant exercise services/support to state-level public health agencies (including tabletop, functional, and full-scale exercises) on topics ranging from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Level 1 agents to natural disease outbreaks (particularly pandemic influenza). Topics included healthcare surge, Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) deployment, ESF-8 Incident Command, and special needs population evacuation and sheltering.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Response, After Action Debriefing, Louisiana
Adapted an existing exercise program; reformulated the HSEEP events to serve the debriefing of more than 1,100 responders from 6 different ESF perspectives and including 7 different response professions; conducted more than 30 debriefing sessions, some including statewide, multiday events; and produced 10 after action reports.

“The support provided us over the last year and a half by [E & E] made a real difference in the quality of our table-top and field exercises … It was helpful, too, that [E & E] were ‘neutral’ consultants with recognized expertise and no tie to any one of the agencies.”—Elinor Blake, Chair Contra Costa Hazardous Mate­rials Interagency Task Force; to Keith Takata, Director Superfund Divi­sion EPA Region 9

"I sincerely appreciate the support E & E provided during our recent exercise 'Certain Response 2000.'  Your professionalism and expertise contributed immensely to the overwhelming success of the exercise."—US 5th Army, Deputy Commanding General

“This letter is to express EPA Region 10’s sincere appreciation for your staff’s participation in the recent TOPOFF 2 terrorism response exercise. … It is clear that EPA has a very important role in helping this country respond to and recover from terrorist attacks.  Based on Region 10’s experience during this exercise, we believe we are more ready to meet the challenge.”—L. John Iani, EPA Region 10 Regional Administrator

“Just wanted to compliment your team.  They did a great job and were both familiar and comfortable with the materials covered.”—Jerry Monier, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

“On behalf of the King County Office of Emergency Management and the regional partners signatory to the King County Regional Disaster Plan, I wish to thank Ecology and Environment for your contributions to making the functional exercise on March 2nd a success. … [E & E] did an excellent job of moving communications between the design team and the prospective participant agencies [and] … acted in a timely fashion to produce important documents and to effect coordination with other agencies in King County.”—Rich Tokarzewski, King County Office of Emergency Management