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Frances Fragos Townsend, President Bush's domestic security adviser, said that enlisting help from federal agencies made sense. The Homeland Security Department and its Federal Emergency Management Agency will continue to be the lead federal player in disaster response efforts, according to the blueprint proposed by Ms. Townsend. Townsend said the White House would in fact create a Disaster Response Group to make sure that if there are any disagreements or any bureaucracy, there's a mechanism here at the White House to break through that. Frances Fragos Townsend, President Bush's domestic security adviser, said that enlisting help from federal agencies made sense. Ms. Townsend said the White House would in fact create a Disaster Response Group to make sure that if there are any disagreements or any bureaucracy, there's a mechanism there at the White House to break through that. A new National Operations Center that provides situational awareness for all federal agencies would also be set up, taking away some of the duties now handled by the Homeland Security Operations Center, which only opened in July 2004.