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Risk and Resilience Assessment Summary Report Using VSAT Web 2.0 Risk and Resilience Assessment Summary Purpose This risk and resilience assessment of City of Ramsey was performed on June 21, 2021 using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Vulnerability Self -Assessment Tool (VSAT) Web Version 2.0. EPA developed and maintains VSAT Web to serve as an all -hazards risk and resilience assessment tool for water and wastewater utilities of all sizes. Specifically, EPA designed Version 2.0 of VSAT Web to assist community water systems with meeting the requirements for risk and resilience assessments in America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (AWIA). VSAT Web 2.0 can help water sector owners and operators with identifying the threats that present the highest risks to their facilities and with evaluating the costs and benefits of countermeasures to reduce those risks. Methodology VSAT Web 2.0 addresses malevolent acts, natural hazards, and dependency/proximity threats to water sector operations and analyzes the cost-effectiveness of countermeasures to reduce risk. The methodology in VSAT Web 2.0 is based on assessing the risk to a water system asset from a specific threat or hazard (i.e., an Asset -Threat Pair), where risk is defined as follows: Risk (R) =Threat (T) X Vulnerability (V) X Consequences (C) • T =Likelihood that the threat will be perpetrated or occur against the asset; • V =Likelihood that the threat will damage the asset, considering the effectiveness of countermeasures; and • C =Economic (cost to the utility and region) and public health (injuries and deaths) impacts resulting from damage to the asset. A monetary value of statistical illness and value of statistical life are assigned to injuries and deaths, respectively, so that risk can be determined as a single monetized value. AWIA requires community water systems to assess the risks to and resilience of specified assets from both malevolent acts and natural hazards. Accordingly, VSAT Web 2.0 begins with a characterization of water system resilience using the Utility Resilience Index, as described below. The analyst then conducts a qualitative assessment of risks from malevolent acts and natural hazards to all the assets required in AWIA. These steps can ensure that the assessment may be certified as compliant with AWIA. Following these steps, the analyst determines which assets and threats will undergo a quantitative risk assessment, involving estimates of threat, vulnerability, and consequences. The quantitative risk assessment may include a broad spectrum of assets encompassing the entire water system, or be limited to those assets at highest risk. For threat selection, VSAT Web 2.0 includes all the malevolent acts, natural hazards, and dependency/proximity threats listed in the AWWA J100-10 Standard, along with source water (accidental and intentional) and finished water (accidental) contamination. Analysts may also designate a custom threat. Privileged and Confidential