Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan: 16. HAZMAT

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Chapter 16:Hazard Analysis—HAZMAT The Local Emergency Planning Committee is to take appropriate actions to ensure the preparation, implementation, and annual update and review of the local emergency response plan required by this chapter and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986. The local emergency response plans shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (A) Identification of each facility subject to the requirements of section 303 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §11003 and within the emergency planning district; identification of routes likely to be used for the transportation of substances on the list of extremely hazardous substances; and identification of additional facilities contributing or subjected to additional risk due to their proximity to facilities subject to the requirements of this section, such as hospitals or natural gas facilities; (B) Methods and procedures to be followed by facility owners and operators and local emergency and medical personnel in responding to any release of these substances; (C) Designation of a community emergency coordinator and facility emergency coordinators,who shall make determinations necessary to implement the plan; (D) Procedures providing reliable, effective, and timely notification by facility emergency coordinators and the community emergency coordinator to persons designated in the emergency plan, and the public, that a release has occurred, consistent with the notification requirements of this chapter and section 304 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986,42 U.S.C. §11004; (E) Methods for determining the occurrence of a release, and the area or population likely to be affected by the release; (F) A description of emergency equipment and facilities in the county and at each facility in the county subject to the requirements of this section, and the identification of the persons responsible for the equipment and facilities; (G) Evacuation plans, including provisions for precautionary evacuation and alternate traffic routes; (H) Training programs, including schedules for training of local emergency response and medical personnel; and (1) Methods and schedules for exercising the emergency plan; (3) Request additional information from the facilities, if necessary, to develop emergency response plans; 16-3 Hawaii County Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan