The Certified Ophthalmic Medical Technologist (COMT) certification designation recognizes those individuals who have progressed through the COA and COT levels or are training program graduates as accomplished eye care professionals.
The DSCA mission includes the broader scope of support that the DOD provides to states upon request, to include support to hurricane, wildland fire, earthquakes, and other natural disasters, through the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act). (21) The Stafford Act is the primary statutory authority for both the DOD DSCA mission and the JTF-CS CBRNE consequence management mission. (22) In accordance with the principles of federalism embodied in the Stafford Act, DOD supports civil authorities during consequence management operations at the direction of the Secretary of Defense to support the lead federal agency (LFA).
As one of the most important pieces of legislation ever passed in the United States, TSCA authorized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate new and existing chemicals. TSCA was response to Congressâ growing concerns about the unreasonable risks that chemicals pose to human health and the environment.he Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 mandated the EPA to protect the public from unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment by regulating the manufacture and sale of chemicals. This act does not address wastes produced as byproducts of manufacturing, as did the Clean Water and Air Acts of the era.