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Prepare

Hazardous Materials Program

The Hazardous Materials Program is coordinated by Marathon County Emergency Management and includes direction of the Marathon County Local Emergency Planning Committee. The program involves compliance with SARA Title III planning and record keeping, available training for public safety agencies, community outreaches on hazardous materials issues and other mandated requirements. SARA Title III also covers facilities certain threshold quantities of hazardous materials.

Emergency Planning And Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)

EPCRA (Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act or SARA Title III) was passed in 1986 and requires:

Development of plans for response to accidental releases
Immediate notification of public officials when releases occur
Making chemical hazard and inventory data available to the public
Making toxic chemical release information available to the public
The establishment of a Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC) to implement or oversee compliance

Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)

LEPC reviews plans for mitigation, response and recovery from hazardous materials releases resulting in an emergency. Representation on the committee comes from:

Fire Service
Law Enforcement
Industry
Public Health
Local Government Official
Emergency Medical Service
Hospital
Community Group
Citizen Representative

Hazardous Materials Facilities in the Marathon County LEPC Jurisdiction

Tier II reports are required under SARA Title III by March 1st each year for the prior calendar year. Any facility with inventories over the threshold planning quantity must complete these forms and send copies to the Local Emergency Planning Committee, and the local fire department. Off-site plans include:

Facility name and location
Name of facility emergency planning coordinator with 24 hr. contact phone number
List of primary emergency responders
List of resources available from/at facility
List of outside resources available
Hazard analysis of the facility with a vulnerability zone for release of EHS stored at facility, identification of special facilities (ex. schools, hospitals, nursing homes, day care centers, etc.) within the zone
Population protection procedures (sheltering and evacuation) and attachments

Respond

MABAS

Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS) is a mutual aid measure that may be used for deploying fire, rescue and emergency medical services personnel in a multi-jurisdictional and/or multi-agency response.

EOC

An Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is the physical location at which the coordination of information and resources to support domestic incident management activities normally takes place. An EOC may be a temporary facility or may be located in a more central or permanently established facility. EOCs may be organized by major functional disciplines (e.g., fire, law enforcement, and medical services), by jurisdiction (e.g., state, county, city), or some combination thereof.

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