Criteria for Review of Hazardous Materials Emergency Plans

(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)Methods and procedures to be followed by facilityowners and operators and local emergency andmedical personnel to respond to any release ofsuch substances.Designation of a community emergency coordinatorand facility emergency coordinators, who shallmake determinations necessary to implement theplan.Procedures providing reliable, effective, andtimely notification by the facility emergencycoordinators and the community emergencycoordinator to persons designated in theemergency plan, and to the public, that a releasehas occurred (consistent with the emergencynotification requirements of Section 304).Methods for determining the occurrence of arelease, and the area or population likely to beaffected by such release.A description of emergency equipment andfacilities in the community and at each facilityin the community subject to the requirements ofthis subtitle, and an identification of thepersons responsible for such equipment andfacilities.Evacuation plans, including provisions for aprecautionary evacuation and alternative trafficroutes.Training programs, including schedules fortraining of local emergency response and medicalpersonnel.Methods and schedules for exercising the emergencyplan."Under Section 303(e) of the Act, state emergency responsecommissions are required to review and make recommendations oneach plan to ensure "coordination" with the plans of other localemergency planning districts.Under Section 303(g) of the Act, the Regional Response Teams "mayreview and comment upon an emergency plan or other issues relatedto preparation, implementation, or exercise of such a plan uponrequest of a local emergency planning committee." This review isviewed by the National Response Team to be a form of technicalassistance to the local emergency planning committees and the2