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Subject: American Homeland Security
Category: Relationships and Society > Government
Asked by: kemlo-ga
List Price: $2.00
Posted: 28 Mar 2003 11:45 PST
Expires: 27 Apr 2003 12:45 PDT
Question ID: 182437
In America the government recently amalgamated twenty two government
department to make one super ministry.
can anyone show me a list of these twenty two and what they did
before?
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Subject: Re: American Homeland Security
Answered By: justaskscott-ga on 28 Mar 2003 15:07 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello kemlo-ga,

Here are links to most of the twenty-two agencies.  If you count,
there are twenty-three listed; but since the web pages for the Office
for Domestic Preparedness (Justice) and the National Domestic
Preparedness Office (FBI) are the same, I presume that these two
agencies are basically one.

"DHS Organization: DHS Agencies"
Department of Homeland Security
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/editorial/editorial_0133.xml

I have found at least two of the remaining links:

"Nuclear Incident Response"
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
http://www.llnl.gov/nai/rdiv/nucinc.html

"Environmental Measures Laboratory"
Department of Energy
http://www.eml.doe.gov/

This might be a third link:

"Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Countermeasures"
Technical Support Working Group
http://www.tswg.gov/tswg/cbrnc/cbrnc_ma.htm

I can't seem to find the other two; perhaps their web pages have been
removed because of the reorganization.  I do know that "BW" in one of
them stands for "Bio-Weapons".

If you need me to try again for these remaining two (or three) links,
please let me know.

- justaskscott-ga


Search terms used on Google to find the pages I have cited:

site:gov "22 agencies"
site:gov "nuclear incident response"
site:gov "environmental measures laboratory"
site:gov cbrn
site:gov "chemical biological radiological and nuclear"
kemlo-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
Thanks 
Perfect answer--it provided all the information I was looking for, 
and very quickly
HR Kemlo

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