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Title	Source	Media	Audience
Examination of Legal Language Authorizing Responses to Incidents Involving Contamination with Radioactive Material Summary of CDC/NACCHO partnership in 2012 to examine state and select local legal authorities on decontamination and restriction of movement of individuals contaminated or potentially contaminated with radioactive material.	CDC/NACCHO	PDF	Public health professionals, law enforcement
Radiation Emergency Medical Management (REMM) Homepage REMM provides guidance to health care providers (primarily physicians) about clinical diagnosis and treatment of radiation injury during radiological and nuclear emergencies. It also provides just-in-time, evidence-based, usable information with sufficient background and context to make complex issues understandable to those without formal radiation medicine expertise.	REMM	Website	Clinicians, Public Health Professionals, First Responders, Medical Examiners
National Alliance for Radiation Readiness (NARR) Homepage NARR is a coalition of public health, healthcare, and emergency management organizations that represent practitioners in the field of radiation readiness. This includes state and local public health practitioners, elected officials at the sate and local level, and first responder and first receiver groups.	NARR	Website	Clinicians, Public Health Professionals, First Responders, Medical Examiners
The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Planning for and Response to Bioterrorism and Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases A model act drafted by Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities at the request of CDC.	Georgetown and Johns Hopkins University on behalf of CDC	PDF	Clinicians, Public health professionals, First responders
Radiological/Nuclear Law Enforcement and Public Health Investigation Handbook - September, 2011 This handbook serves to introduce RN LE and PH investigations , identify potential barriers and solutions that LE and PH personnel will encounter during their investigations and enhance appreciation across each discipline.	CDC	PDF	Public Health Professionals

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Page last reviewed: March 14, 2014
Page last updated: January 5, 2017
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