This project contract initiated at January 20th 2004 and has completed the following work: In toxic chemical release control, a toxic chemical release control system has been setup and 10 drills were held in different counties, ensuring the local EPA office and relevant staffs fully aware of the function of the system. A dispersion model incorporating fire and explosion models was developed and consequence modeling was performed for 40 toxic facilities. The center has setup a media new monitoring system and will continue to monitoring and recording incident news. The Center also completed the setup of a closed-cell FTIR system for online air monitoring and performed background monitoring of 30 facilities operating with toxic substances, each with twenty measurements and total of six hundred measurement and spectra. The Center also setup a laboratory of environmental analysis of toxic incident to provide prompt sampling and analysis of polluted water and soil. The laboratory also has built up of analytical methods for 96 toxic substances and performed the analyses of environmental background for 50 toxic facilities each with 5 set of environmental background data. In the information system for toxic substance, the Center has built a search and automatic fax transmission system for toxic substances database. The response resources from a total of 1000 facilities operating with toxic substances were collected and built into a resource list. The response information for listed No 1 to No 54 toxic substances was also updated and error-corrected. Training materials for level-one responders were updated by specialists in the emergency response. The standard operating procedures for disaster cleanup for EPA officers, fire fighters, on-scene coordinators were developed. The Center has help local EPA officers in performing no-warning response testing. A total of 32 testing were done. The Center also helped local counties in drills of toxic substance incidents. A total of 11 drills has been done this year. Both work

ENSERTS,Emergency Response,joint response team member