§11003 Comprehensive Emergency Response Plans

Summary

Local emergency planning committees must finish an emergency plan no later than two years after October 17, 1986, and must review it at least once a year or more often if local conditions change. The committee must check what resources are needed and recommend extra help if required. The plan must identify covered facilities and likely transportation routes, say how people will respond to a release, name a community emergency coordinator and facility coordinators, set up how and when to notify people and the public (consistent with section 11004), explain how to detect a release and who might be affected, list emergency equipment and who is responsible, include evacuation plans and traffic alternatives, and lay out training and exercise schedules. For each covered facility, the owner or operator must tell the committee (or the Governor if there is no committee) the facility representative within 30 days after the committee is set up or within 11 months after October 17, 1986, whichever is earlier, must promptly report changes at the facility, and must give information to the committee on request. After a plan is done, the committee must send it to the State emergency response commission for review and coordination without delaying implementation. The national response team must publish guidance within five months after October 17, 1986, and regional teams may review plans on request but may not delay putting plans into effect.