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Use of Underground Facilities to Protect Critical Infrastructures Summary of a Workshop (1998) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 38-44

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... Few corporations have a genuine commitment to emergency preparedness. Instead their emphasis is on stockholders and return on investment.
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From page 39...
... Global connections make infrastructure protection everybody's problem, and interdependence of systems is total. Throughout the world economic growth is reliant on a consistent and interdependent communications infrastructure, which in turn is dependent on electric power, natural gas, and many other systems.
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... One problem with existing underground spaces is that a user has to find one that is in the right shape and in the right location for their needs. In light of this, refurbishing existing UGFs can be a good value.
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... Perhaps an ideal use for UGFs is as infrastructure protection R&D centers and as useful testbeds for promising approaches. Other potential good uses include training exercises for first responders in dealing with chemical or biological agents and suggested training exercises using simulated chemical or biological agents in these facilities.
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... While the use of UGFs for infrastructure protection appears to be a good idea, this alone is not enough to effect change. People must be convinced of the advantages in order to make progress.
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... Dr. Schroeder asked whether the $500 million the PCCIP recommended for R&D would go solely to the cyber-threat, as opposed to physical threats.
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... Mr. Long strongly recommended the use of this commercial route for those infrastructure sectors that are not supplying information directly to the government.
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