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LLNL Emergency Plan Rev-23 October 2017 78 7.2 Coordination The ED is responsible for coordinating with Federal, State, and local organizations to ensure accurate and timely consequence assessments, determinations, and coordinated responses. This coordination is outlined in Emergency Programs Organization plans/procedures. The EOC, supported by the DOCs, can provide the expertise to locate and track hazardous materials; estimate the integrated impact of hazardous materials released onsite, offsite and into the environment; and locate and recover materials, especially those with national security implications. In the advent of a General Emergency that released hazardous materials (including radiological materials) which impacted the offsite communities, the ACFD Battalion Chief or IC at LLNL would initiate a Level 2 HazMat response. This brings an additional six ACFD HazMat technicians and a HazMat vehicle from ACFD Station 12 to supplement the nine ACFD HazMat technicians and HazMat vehicle stationed at LLNL (ACFD Station 20). The IC, First Arriving Captain, Battalion Chief, Division Chief, Deputy Chief or Fire Chief would have immediate responsibility and authority for determining radiological safety impacts to the offsite public. A Unified Command among ACFD, local LPD and LPFD would be implemented. LPD would activate their community mass notification system to request residents to shelter-in-place or take other appropriate protective actions as determined by the Unified Command. LPFD would also likely call for the activation of the Livermore City EOC or alternate EOC, if necessary. ACFD would assume the lead for immediate offsite monitoring and has equipment and trained personnel for determining and/or monitoring radioactive materials released into the local environment. ACFD would notify the Alameda County Environmental Health Department, who in turn would notify the State and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as necessary. U.S. EPA would assist County and State Health/emergency response departments, if requested. The National Contingency Plan (now a part of the National Response Framework) authorizes EPA to respond and to determine public health impacts. In addition, the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants sets a compliance standard for facilities to evaluate off- site consequences from any off-site radiologic release to determine if a member of the public has received a dose greater than 10 mrem. As the event progressed, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services State Warning Center would notify the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Service’s Radiological Preparedness Unit that it had received an emergency notification declaring a General Emergency from LLNL. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services would notify California Department of Public Health Radiological Health Branch of the incident and recommend activation of the State Dose Assessment Center. This notification would put into action the