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........... COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII BILL NO. 257 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 7, SECTION 7-3, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION,AS AMENDED), RELATING TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND EVACUATION PLANS FOR GEOTHERMAL FACILITIES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Chapter 7, Section 7-3, Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended to read as follows: "Section 7-3. Deputy director; duties. (a) The deputy director is responsible for the organization, administration, and operation of the civil defense agency in the County. It is the duty of the deputy director to coordinate the activities of all organizations for civil defense within the County, public or private, and to maintain liaison with and cooperate to the fullest extent with the State director to insure that the plans and programs of the County for the relief and general welfare of the people in the event of a disaster or emergency are fully integrated with the plans and programs of the State and Federal governments. The plans and programs shall be prepared by the deputy director and transmitted to the council for approval and shall be reviewed by the deputy director and resubmitted to the council for approval before March 31 of each year. (b) In addition to the plans described in subsection (a), the deputy director shall prepare an emergency response and evacuation plan for each geothermal power production facility operating in the County. The deputy director shall invite the state department of health, the police department, the fire department, the department of parks and recreation, the department of public works, residents of the affected community, and the geothermal power production facility to participate in the preparation of the plan. The plan for any geothermal power production facility shall be submitted to the council for approval within ninety days of that geothermal power production facility having begun operations. The plan for any existing geothermal power production facility shall be submitted to the council for approval by August 1, 2012. At the request of the deputy director, the council may approve an extension of an additional ninety days for the submission of an emergency response and evacuation plan." SECTION 2. Material to be repealed is bracketed. New material is underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed material, and underscoring need not be included. SECTION 3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this ordinance without the invalid provisions or applications, and to this end, the invalidity or applications provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.