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<br />Ramsey County~Wide Emergency Operations Plan <br /> <br />Revision 5. / June. 2005 <br /> <br />Decontamination may be accomplished by 1) treating the surface so as to <br />remove or decrease the contamination: 2) letting the material stand so that the <br />radioactivity is decreased as a result of natural decay; and 3) covering the <br />contamination. <br /> <br />DHS - United States Department of Homeland Security <br /> <br />Direction and Control (D&C) - Managing and coordinating the response of <br />government forces to a major emergency/disaster. <br /> <br />Disaster - A sudden, unplanned calamitous event that brings about great <br />damage or loss. Any event that creates an inability on the company's part to <br />provide critical business functions for some predetermined period of time. <br />Associated terms: Business Interruption; Outage: Catastrophe. <br /> <br />DO - Duty Officer <br /> <br />E <br /> <br />EAS - Emergency Alert System <br /> <br />EMC - Ramsey County Emergency Management Council <br /> <br />Emergency - An event that demands a response beyond the scope of any single <br />line agency or service, and that presents a threat to a community or larger area <br /> <br />EMHS - Ramsey County Division of Emergency Management and Homeland <br />Security <br /> <br />EMS - Emergency Medical Services <br /> <br />EOC - Emergency Operations Center - The protected site from which civil <br />government officials (municipal, county, state, and federal) exercise direction and <br />control in an emergency. <br /> <br />EOP - Emergency Operations Plan - A document which describes the way in <br />which a government intends to respond to a major emergency/disaster. <br /> <br />EOT - Ramsey County Emergency Operations Team <br /> <br />EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency <br /> <br />EPCRA - Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act <br /> <br />ERP - Emergency Response Plan <br /> <br />ESF - Emergency Support Function <br /> <br />Evacuee - An individual who is moved to a less hazardous area. <br /> <br />129 <br />