Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP)
Telecommunications and warning systems are a very vital requirement of this program. Should an incident involving the storage and eventual incineration of chemical munitions at Umatilla Depot Activity pose a life threatening situation for communities within Benton County and surrounding areas, alert notification and information exchange between state and local authorities must occur automatically or within minutes after the event occurs.
To meet and support this need within Benton County, extensive state-of-the-art alert, notification, and command/control systems have been installed. Interconnected through a four site digital microwave radio system, as depicted in the following diagram; dedicated telephone, a 800 Mhz trunked radio system, sirens, highway reader boards, tone alert radios, and local and wide area computer networks have been established to ensure rapid dissemination and exchange of critical information. Dedicated lines to the state EOC include one crash line, one select dial line, two fax lines, and two PBX tie-lines.
CSEPP Communications System Overview 
Due to the nature of the chemical and biological hazard potential from the Umatilla Depot Activity, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has adopted the Federal Emergency Management Information System (FEMIS) for real time exchange of emergency data between emergency operations centers (EOC) in Washington and Oregon. Through FEMIS, agencies can rapidly share reports, manage emergency resources, and conduct D2PC modeling of the chemical incident.
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