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Appendix C C-8 FM 3-81 09 November 2021 C-34. Sustainment headquarters pushing convoys into a support area and the sustainment headquarters receiving the convoy coordinate with the support area BCOC or BDOC to ensure that the convoys do not conflict with movement and maneuver, protection, or fires warfighting functions. This is especially important for major unit moves supported by transportation units. The support area owner S-3 is ultimately responsible for controlling all movement through the support area. If possible, the support area owner may place a liaison officer at the higher headquarters to assist in controlling sustainment movements. C-35. The support area commander’s staff plans and conducts the required operations to support movement. The CBRN officer determines likely areas for enemy use of CBRN, and designates decontamination sites for restoring contaminated units. The CBRN officer also coordinates with task-organized CBRN assets to position CBRN detection sensors and to establish the corresponding process for receiving, validating, and disseminating CBRN alerts, precautions, and downwind messages to subordinate, adjacent, and higher units. The engineer coordinates mobility support, monitoring route status and directing required route maintenance. The EOD staff, in coordination with the engineer and intelligence staff, monitors and conducts trend analysis within the support area. The military police coordinates traffic control and directs required military police security. The S-6 ensures that the required codes, loads, administrative data, and procedures for accessing dedicated communication nets or networked systems are current, available, operational, and packaged for dissemination by the operations section to organic, tenant, or passing units. They coordinate with subordinate electronic warfare officers to ensure that electronic countermeasure devices and equipment are properly installed, tested, and deconflicted with noncomplementary devices of similar purpose within the support area TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT C-36. Traffic management and enforcement and MSR and ASR regulation and enforcement collectively include active and passive measures used to control traffic circulation, enforce traffic regulations, investigate traffic collisions, and enable safe movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Traffic management and enforcement focuses on mitigating traffic disruptions created by threats, dislocated civilians, and congestion due to breakdowns, weather, and degradation of road surfaces. Traffic control elements coordinate with movement control teams to update and share information on MSR interdiction, traffic congestion, or other situations influencing movement in the AO. Military police provide temporary traffic control through manned traffic control posts and emplace temporary traffic control devices (signs, roadblocks, traffic cones, warning devices, other traffic control measures). Traffic management and enforcement and MSR and ASR regulation and enforcement conducted by military police may include— Supporting movement associated with tactical missions, such as traffic control in support of breaching and gap crossing (traffic control posts, defiles, temporary route signing). Supporting movement control priorities through execution of published traffic control plans and enforcing highway regulations. Supporting passage of lines (forward or rearward) mobility support through traffic control (to include management of dislocated civilians, stragglers, and detainees) for stationary and passing units. Enforcing traffic laws and building host-nation police capacity to perform traffic control and enforcement tasks consistent with the rule of law. C-37. Military police trained as traffic management and collision investigators can conduct traffic surveys to assess traffic problems on specific existing road structures. Based on these assessments, they can provide recommendations for implementation of traffic control measures to mitigate acute traffic flow problems. (See ATP 3-39.10.) Traffic flow problems that require major construction or cover large road networks (such as those found within large cities) require comprehensive traffic studies and expertise from traffic engineers supported by transportation, military police, and other technical specialties.