Each LEPC is required to produce a plan
for response to chemical emergencies. The plan must be reviewed by the LEPC and the SERC,
and updated on a yearly basis. Citizens have the right to review the plan themselves and
it must be made available to them. In Harford County the Hazardous Materials Response Plan
is available for review at the following locations:
Any Harford County Public Library
Harford County Division of Emergency Operations
2220 Ady Road
Forest Hill, Maryland 21050
410-638-4900.
To make
sure that the plan works the LEPC is required to conduct exercises
to test the plan each year. These exercises can be a full scale
exercise involving a realistic scenario or it can be a simple
tabletop exercise. If the community is faced with a real chemical
emergency where all elements of the plan are tested, they can use
this to meet the testing requirements as well. The Harford County
LEPC tests its plan yearly and has used each one of these exercise
methods.
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In order to assure proper response resources
the chemicals that are stored in local facilities and transported through our communities
must be known. Every facility that maintains over certain amounts of chemicals are
required to report those chemicals for planning and community knowledge on a Tier II form. Those reports are public information and are made available by the
LEPC.
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