Argonne Reports

Comparison Of Two Concepts And Methods To Decide When To End Temporary Shelter-In-Place Protection, Decision and Information Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory. Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Office of National Preparedness, Technological Services Division, Chemical Preparedness Branch, July 26, 2003, Version 9.2

When and How to End Shelter-In-Place Protection From a Release of Airborne Hazardous Material: Report on a Decision-Making Concept and Methodology, Decision and Information Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, The Federal Emergency Management Agency Readiness, Response and Recovery Directorate, July 30, 2001.

Temporary Shelter-In-Place as Protection Against a Release of Airborne Hazardous Material: Report of a Literature Search Report prepared by the Decision and Information Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Federal Emergency Management Agency. Preparedness, Training and Exercises Directorate, March 16, 2001.

Shelter-in-Place Protective Action Guide Book, CSEPP, U.S. Dept. of the Army and the U.S. Deprtment of Homeland Security, May 12, 2006.


Army Reports

Experiments in Sheltering In Place: How Filtering Affects Protection Against Sarin and Mustard Vapor, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, ECBC-TR-034, 1999.

Expedient Sheltering In Place: An Evaluation for the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program,Chemical Research Development & Engineering Center, ERDEC-TR-336, June 1996.

Test Report for the System Effectiveness Test of Home/Commercial Portable Room Air Cleaners U.S. Army Soldier, Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM), 27 April, 2000.


Berkeley Reports

Sheltering in Buildings from Large-Scale Outdooor Releases, W. R. Chan, P.N. Price, A.J. Gagdil.

Assessing thhe Effectiveness of Shelter-in-Place as an Emergency Response tto Large-Scale Outdoor Chemical Releases, W. R. Chan, May, 2006.

Modeling Shelter-in-Place Including Sorption on Indooor Surfaces, W. R. Chan, et al.

Protecting Buildings From a Biological or Chemical Attack: Actions to take before or during a release. LBNL/PUB-49932, July 10, 2002.

Protecting Buildings From a Biological or Chemical Attack: Actions to take before or during a release. LBNL/PUB-51959, January 10, 2003.

Information for First Responders to an Indoor Chemical Release, Version 1.0 Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, March 2002.

Pollutant Transport and Dispersion in Large Indoor Spaces: A Status Report for the Large Space Effort of the Interiors Project, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, June 2000.

Building A Predictive Model of Indoor Concentrations of Outdoor PM-2.5 in Homes, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, SEPTEMBER, 2001

Factors Affecting the Concentration of Outdoor Particles Indoors (COPI): Identification of Data Needs and Existing Data, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, December 2001.

Rapidly Locating Sources And Predicting Contaminant Dispersion In Buildings, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Factors Affecting The Concentration Of Outdoor Particles Indoors: Existing Data And Data Needs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

A Pilot Study Of The Behavior Of Gas And Particle-Phase ETS Tracers In Residences, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA.


NICS Reports

Effectiveness of Shelter-In-Place: Examples from across the Country, National Institute for Chemical Studies.

Shelter-In-Place at Your Office - A General Guide for Preparing a Shelter in Place Plan in the Workplace, National Institute for Chemical Studies

Sheltering in Place as a Public Protective Action, National Institute for Chemical Studies


ORNL Reports

Assessment Of Housing Stock Age In The Vicinity Of Chemical Stockpile Sites, ORNL/TM-13742 , 1999.

Evaluating Protective Actions for Chemical Agent Emergencies, ORNL-6615, 1990.

Planning Protective Action Decision-Making: Evacuate Or Shelter-In-Place? ORNL/TM-2002/144, 2002.

Expedient Respiratory and Physical Protection: Does a Wet Towel Work to Prevent Chemical Warfare Agent Vapor Infiltration?,ORNL/TM-2001/153, 2001.

Questions And Answers Regarding Actions To Take When Ending Shelter-In-Place, ORNL/TM-2003/230, 2003.

Emergency Protection from Aerosols, ORNL-5519, 1981.

Will Duct Tape and Plastic Really Work? Issues Related To Expedient Shelter-In-Place, ORNL/TM-2001/154, 2001.

Preparing EBS Messages, ORNL/TM-12163, 1992.

Description of Survey Data Regarding the Chenical Repackaging Plant Accident West Helena, Arkansas. ORNL/TM-13722, 1999.

Populations with Special Needs, B. V. Sorensen, ORNL/M-2006/559, 2006.

Workgroup Reports

Report of the CSEPP Shelter In Place Workgroup, 2001.

Protective Actions Working IPT, 2004.

Miscellaneous Reports

Protective Actions For A Hazardous Material Release. A US Air Force Protective Actions Planning Guide For Individuals and Facility Managers Headquarters, Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida 32403, October 22, 2001.

Creating a Balanced Response: An Application of Data Mining to Determne when to Shelter or Evacuate. Boechler, M.

Ordering Shelter or Evacuation During an Outdoor Toxic Gas Release Incident: The C.A.F.C Decision Flow Chart.

Effectiveness of Expedient Shelter in a Residence, Jetter, J. and Whitfield, C., 2005.

Air Infiltration Review - the User's Influence on Air Infiltration, Vol. 6., No. 4, August 1985.