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New Hanover County LEPC Minutes 3.14.2018New Hanover County LEPC Minutes March 14, 2018 The following persons signed the roster indicating they were in attendance: NAME BUSINESS NAME BUSINESS Teresa Smith NHCEM Elizabeth Meyer INVISTA Michael Carlisle Pender County EM Patricia Kusek NHCBOC Robin Lorenzen NCEM Area 5 Coord. Ruth Smith NHC C&O Jodie Ruskin UNCW Mike Alexander Kinder Morgan Kevin Cowan Seaside Safety Zak Whicker NHC EM Mark Venters GEH Steve Mason WFD Quint Ocock HEPACO Phillip Watts Colonial Terminals Allen Hancock NCDOT Eric Hatcher CFPUA Jeff Suggs NCH Health Dept Zachariah Reger USCG Billy Howard NHRMC EMS Heather Griffin SHPR - NHRMC Steve Mason WFD Welcome and Introductions: The bi-monthly meeting, held at the NHC Emergency Operations Center, was called to order at 11:03 hours starting with introductions. Teresa Smith opened the meeting and made the announcement that minutes will be emailed in advance of upcoming meetings and will no longer be printed. A copy may be obtained on the LEPC website. Membership announcements: N/A Minutes: A review of meeting minutes from January 2018 were read. Approved and Seconded. Open Forum: New Business:  The Coast Guard announced their upcoming exercise on March 29th.  Hitachi GE announced their upcoming tabletop drill on March 20th. Tier II reporting period ended March 1, 2018. Teresa Smith noted that 65-75% of the fees have been collected, 160 submissions. All facilities need to review their Emergency Response Plans and make them available to ePlan. ePlan is secure and only visible to your own organization and Emergency Responders. Question asked: do we need to set up a committee to review community plans? Teresa showed the group that she can view everything in the ePlan. First Responders can see chemicals (liquids, compound fumes, physical hazards, site plans). In May there will be a precursor workshop to the table top exercise for Fall 2018 – covering mobile apps. Some of the smaller fire departments do not have electronic access. EPCRA Section 304 – LEPC members should know Emergency Planning & Community Right to Know Act, Emergency Release Notification Requirements, State Emergency Response Center (SERC) Follow up to an Emergency Release must be submitted as soon as practicable. Question asked: do we want this link on the LEPC website? Kevin Cowan recommends that EHS-comp put in their plans. Just the EPA Reference. Question re form: EPA Requirements. Teresa will revise form on the EOP Annex – follow up and release notices from INVISTA. Teresa spoke to public information access notification and follow up. The 24 hour requirement needs to be reviewed to see if it is a county requirement vs. Federal Government or EPA. Nuclear notification is 15 minutes with a 15 day follow up. Teresa wants to make sure county documentation suits all. NC regulation is to report over 500 pounds. Site plans help responders – very important. Eric Hatcher, CFPUA spoke to the relevance of this conversation. An incident occurred where there was potential for an explosion and showed a video of potential impact. They issued an Incident Action Plan, reported the event to the Fire Department. Eric Hatcher met at the WFD in February to discuss workshops for web-based emergency response programs like WISER, ePlan, Safer Mobile. In September, a table top exercise will take place: TexArkana railcar explosion and derailment – notification to community evacuation? The meeting was to discuss timeline, and initial planning. The full scale exercise will be held in January of 2019. If you signed up please help plan and show up for the committee meetings. Tabletop will be part of the LEPC Teresa announced that the LEPC Brochure has been finalized and ready for dissemination. No comments from the group and meeting was adjourned at 11:55 Sub-Committee Breakout Summaries: None LEPC Committees: Executive Committee  Chairman- Teresa Smith  Vice-Chairman- Mike Alexander  Secretary- Jodie Ruskin Emergency Planning & Response Sub-Committee:  Chairman- Eric Hatcher  Members: Steve Mason, Frank Meyer, Dustin Stream, Billy Howard, Thomas Johnson, Marchele Evans, Heather Griffin, Community Education & Public Response Sub-Committee:  Chairman- Linda Willis  Members- Teresa Smith Next LEPC Meeting: May 9, 2018 at 10:00 AM in the New Hanover County Human Resources Training Room B.