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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1986

100 STAT. 1732

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PUBLIC LAW 99-499—OCT. 17, 1986

referred to in section 302(a), and identification of additional facilities contributing or subjected to additional risk due to their proximity to facilities subject to the requirements of this subtitle, such as hospitals or natural gas facilities. (2) Methods and procedures to be followed by facility owners and operators and local emergency and medical personnel to respond to any release of such substances. (3) Designation of a community emergency coordinator and facility emergency coordinators, who shall make determinations necessary to implement the plan. (4) Procedures providing reliable, effective, and timely notification by the facility emergency coordinators and the community emergency coordinator to persons designated in the emergency plan, and to the public, that a release has occurred (consistent with the emergency notification requirements of section 304). (5) Methods for determining the occurrence of a release, and the area or population likely to be affected by such release. (6) A description of emergency equipment and facilities in the community and at each facility in the community subject to the requirements of this subtitle, and an identification of the persons responsible for such equipment and facilities. (7) Evacuation plans, including provisions for a precautionary evacuation and alternative traffic routes. (8) Training programs, including schedules for training of local emergency response and medical personnel. (9) Methods and schedules for exercising the emergency plan. (d) PROVIDING OF INFORMATION.—For each facility subject to the requirements of this subtitle: (1) Within 30 days after establishment of a local emergency planning committee for the emergency planning district in which such facility is located, or within 11 months after the date of the enactment of this title, whichever is earlier, the owner or operator of the facility shall notify the emergency planning committee (or the Governor if there is no committee) of a facility representative who will participate in the emergency planning process as a facility emergency coordinator. (2) The owner or operator of the facility shall promptly inform the emergency planning committee of any relevant changes occurring at such facility as such changes occur or are expected to occur. (3) Upon request from the emergency planning committee, the owner or operator of the facility shall promptly provide information to such committee necessary for developing and implementing the emergency plan. (e) REVIEW BY THE STATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMISSION.—

After completion of an emergency plan under subsection (a) for an emergency planning district, the local emergency planning committee shall submit a copy of the plan to the State emergency response commission of each State in which such district is located. The commission shall review the plan and make recommendations to the committee on revisions of the plan that may be necessary to ensure coordination of such plan with emergency response plans of other emergency planning districts. To the maximum extent practicable, such review shall not delay implementation of such plan. (f) GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS.—The national response team, as established pursuant to the National Contingency Plan as established