This guidance was published July 2022.
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This document describes a general consequence management planning and decision framework for government and non-government planners, emergency managers, and decision-makers in assessing risk, planning, and executing activities required to respond to and recover from a nationally significant or large-scale hazardous chemical incident in a domestic, civilian setting.
This Planning and Decision Framework for Chemical Incident Consequence Management (also referred to hereafter as the “Framework”) reflects recommendations appropriate for the state of science and national incident management doctrine at the time it was developed. Due to the evolving nature of some of the information provide in this document, it is recommended that this be considered an interim framework that should be updated in response to future re-evaluations of the guiding science and national incident management doctrine.