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LLNL Emergency Management Plan Rev 24 January 2019 10.1 Public Information Organization The PIM directs the emergency response activities of the PAO. The PIM is supported by a Newswriter located in the EOC and by personnel staffing the PAO DOC or, if activated, the JIC. Specialists in news media relations, community relations, and employee communications, supported by administrative and technical support personnel, staff the PAO DOC or the JIC. Under the direction of a PAO DOC Commander, who reports to the PIM, the PAO staff will respond to news media and public inquiries, issue news releases and other formal communications, host visiting news media, arrange news conferences and interviews, and monitor news media reports. The PAO DOC Commander will apprise the ED and the Emergency Management Team, through the PIM, of news media, community and employee interest in the emergency as well as rumors concerning emergency conditions or response. 10.2 Public Information Facilities 10.2.1 Public Affairs Office Department Operations Center The PAO DOC serves as a communication center and work area for LLNL emergency public information staff. The PAO DOC will be activated and used in the event of an Operational Emergency that does not require or warrant JIC activation, or may be utilized until the JIC can be activated. New emergency information will be released to the public and news media from the PAO DOC,based on details provided by the EOC Public Information Manager. Response to public and media telephone inquiries, employee communications, community relations, and rumor control will be handled from the PAO DOC. The Primary PAO DOC is located at the Public Affairs Office main location in Building 111, fourth floor. Designated rooms at this location will be used as work areas and the communications center. Media briefings will take place in the Press Room in the Public Affairs Office's Trailer 6575, which is equipped to seat up to twenty members of the news media. Alternate PAO DOCs are available should the Primary PAO DOC be unavailable. The Alternate PAO DOCS are located in Building 123, Conference Room A, the Public Affairs offices in Trailer 6575, Rooms 101-102, or Robert Livermore Community Center at 4444 East Avenue in Livermore, CA. The Palo Verde Room at this location would serve as a work area for PAO staff and spokespersons, while the Larkspur Room would serve as the News Media Room. Each PAO DOC is equipped with telephones, computer hookup, overhead and video projection capability, visual aids, informational handouts for news media,public address system,podium, copier, fax machine, toilet facilities and adequate parking space. Key LLNL PAO staff are equipped with pagers, cellular phones, laptop computers and two-way radios with access to Laboratory frequencies. A PAO duty officer is on-call 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week. 93