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V1-14 <br /> <br />MEMO <br /> <br />To: <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Re: <br /> <br />Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />Tom Montgomery <br />January 14, 2004 <br />Accept Consulting Proposal - Water System Vulnerability Assessment <br /> <br /> Council is requested to accept the Vulnerability Assessment proposal from SEH <br />at a cost of $7,900. The 2004 Water budget includes $20,000 for both this first phase <br />vulnerability assessment and the next phase -an update of the water system's emergency <br />response plan. The emergency response plan update is expected to cost less than the <br />vulnerability assessment. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br /> The 2001 Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response <br />Act requires water systems serving 3,300 to 50,000 person to complete a vulnerability <br />assessment by June 30, 2004. The 2001 federal Act did not include any funding for these <br />studies. The vulnerability assessment must identify highest priority services, critical <br />customers and prioritize adverse consequences and then make a determination of the <br />system's most critical assets, an assessment of attack probability, an evaluation of <br />existing security elements and an analysis of current risks using standard methodology <br />required by the EPA. The follow-up study is due by the end of the year will make <br />security upgrade recommendations and update the City's water system emergency <br />response plan. <br /> <br />crr~ o~,~m~as <br /> <br /> <br />