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... Information provided in the guidelines is based on an extensive literature review, telephone interviews with personnel responsible for developing and evaluating exercises in the transportation environment, and analysis of recent recommendations and guidance provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Preparedness Directorate Office of Grants and Training (G&T, formerly the Office for Domestic Preparedness)
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... Section 5 outlines and describes how an agency can plan, design, conduct, and evaluate operationsbased exercises that will help improve the agency's ability to respond to transportation emergencies. This section includes references to forms and templates that can be used by a transportation agency to address specific needs.
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... Accordingly, a broad spectrum of exercise activity is necessary if functional emergency response and recovery capability is to be realistically assessed and improved. Well-designed and -executed exercises are the most effective means of: ▪ Testing and validating policies, plans, procedures, training, equipment, and interagency agreements; ▪ Clarifying and training personnel in roles and responsibilities; ▪ Demonstrating mastery of standard and emergency operating procedures, communications, equipment, and public information dissemination; ▪ Improving internal agency and interagency coordination and communications; ▪ Identifying gaps in resources; ▪ Improving individual performance; and ▪ Identifying specific actions that should be taken to improve the response capability.
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... According to Part 239, "each railroad operating passenger train service shall conduct full-scale emergency simulations, in order to determine its capability to execute the emergency preparedness plan under the variety of scenarios that could reasonably be expected to occur on its operation, and ensure coordination with all emergency responders who voluntarily agree to participate in the emergency simulations." The frequency of emergency simulations under 49 CFR 239 varies, but for most affected agencies, it requires at least one simulation per year to include participation with local emergency responders, a critique, and a debrief. 2 The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
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... , with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) , with the FTA, and with the American Public Transportation Association (APTA)
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