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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0725.001 2010-2012 ��Mt�us�� ' Email: dyagong@co.hawaii.hi.us DOMINIC YAGONG : \ c''1:77, Phone: (808) 961-8264 Council Chairperson • r,�' Council District I ' :.e Fax: (808) 961-8912 Hawaii County Council County of Hawai`i 25 Aupuni Street Hilo, Hawaii 96720 a : June 7, 2012 To: Members of the Hawai`i County Council -° From: ominic Yagong, Chairperson kJ, Subject: Proposed Amendments to Bill No. 257; Relating to Emergency Response and Evacuation Plans for Geothermal Facilities Please see below proposed amendments to Bill No. 257. The amendments are illustrated by Ramseyer format with respect to the contents of Bill No. 257, and read as follows (material to be deleted is bracketed and stricken, material to be added is underscored): "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 community 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] a single extension of an additional ninety days for the submission of an emergency response and community evacuation plan." A draft copy of Bill No. 257, Draft 2, is attached with these amendments incorporated. DY/jdh Comm. No. _ ` �S att. Ref. To: C_-at-tr►u Serving the Interests of the People of Our Island Ref. Dote JUN 0 7 201f Hawai`i County is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer 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 community 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 a single extension of an additional ninety days for the submission of an emergency response and community 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. SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.