21 U.S.C. § 2225 — Decontamination and disposal standards and plans
submitted 15 years ago by Pub. L. 111-353 to r/title-21-FOOD-AND-DRUGS · 369 words · no verdicts yet
Specified agencies must support agriculture and food emergency preparation and develop, test, and prioritize decontamination plans.
(a) EPA’s Administrator, coordinating with HHS, Homeland Security, Agriculture, and State, local, and tribal governments, must support and give technical help for preparing for, assessing, decontaminating, and recovering from agriculture or food emergencies.
(b) The Administrator must develop and share standards and protocols for cleanup, clearance, and recovery after decontamination and disposal of specified threat agents and foreign animal diseases.
(c) The Administrator and HHS and Agriculture Secretaries must jointly develop and share model plans for (1) decontaminating people, equipment, and facilities after intentional contamination and (2) disposing of large quantities of infected or contaminated animals, plants, or food.
(d) At least yearly, the Administrator, coordinating with the entities described in subsection (b), must conduct exercises to find weaknesses in the plans, as far as practicable as part of the national exercise program.
(e) At least every two years, the Administrator, coordinating with the entities described in subsection (b), must review and modify the plans as needed based on exercises.
(f) The Administrator, coordinating with the entities described in subsection (b), must develop standards and plans in priority order considering (1) highest-risk biological, chemical, and radiological agents; (2) agents capable of greatest economic harm to agriculture and food; and (3) agents hardest to clean or remediate.
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (referred to in this section as the “Administrator”), in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Agriculture, shall provide support for, and technical assistance to, State, local, and tribal governments in preparing for, assessing, decontaminating, and recovering from an agriculture or food emergency.
In carrying out subsection (a), the Administrator, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of Agriculture, and State, local, and tribal governments, shall develop and disseminate specific standards and protocols to undertake clean-up, clearance, and recovery activities following the decontamination and disposal of specific threat agents and foreign animal diseases.
In carrying out subsection (a), the Administrator, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall jointly develop and disseminate model plans for—
the decontamination of individuals, equipment, and facilities following an intentional contamination of agriculture or food; and
the disposal of large quantities of animals, plants, or food products that have been infected or contaminated by specific threat agents and foreign animal diseases.
In carrying out subsection (a), the Administrator, in coordination with the entities described under subsection (b), shall conduct exercises at least annually to evaluate and identify weaknesses in the decontamination and disposal model plans described in subsection (c). Such exercises shall be carried out, to the maximum extent practicable, as part of the national exercise program under section 748(b)(1) of title 6.
Based on the exercises described in subsection (d), the Administrator, in coordination with the entities described in subsection (b), shall review and modify as necessary the plans described in subsection (c) not less frequently than biennially.
The Administrator, in coordination with the entities described in subsection (b), shall develop standards and plans under subsections (b) and (c) in an identified order of priority that takes into account—
highest-risk biological, chemical, and radiological threat agents;
agents that could cause the greatest economic devastation to the agriculture and food system; and
agents that are most difficult to clean or remediate.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–353, title II, § 208, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3944.)
- 2011Enacted · Pub. L. 111-353 · 124 Stat. 3944
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