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LLNL Emergency Plan Rev-22 January 2017 7 is expanded to implement additional emergency management requirements of an Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program, if hazardous materials pose a major threat to the health and safety of workers and the public. The Hazards Survey and Emergency Planning Hazards Assessments (EPHA), if required, are the technical planning basis for the site’s emergency management program. Although the elements comprising both the LLNL Operational Emergency Base Program and the LLNL Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program are described throughout the LLNL Emergency Plan, the scope and purposes of each are presented below. 1.3.2.1 Operational Emergency Base Program Each DOE facility/site is required to establish an Operational Emergency Base Program that provides the framework for response to serious or severe events that involve the health and safety of workers, the public, the environment, and safeguards and security. These events or conditions are not unique to DOE/NNSA operations. The specific requirements that constitute the LLNL Operational Emergency Base Program are the emergency planning and preparedness aspects of DOE Order 151.1C, as well as applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. The objective of the Operational Emergency Base Program is to achieve an effective integration of emergency planning and preparedness requirements into an emergency management program that provides capabilities for comprehensive emergency management through communication, coordination, and an efficient and effective use of resources. The LLNL Hazards Survey, based on an examination of the features and characteristics of all LLNL facilities, identifies the generic types of emergency events and conditions and their potential impacts, as well as key components of the Operational Emergency Base Program. For facilities involved in producing, processing, handling, storing, or transporting hazardous materials that have the potential to pose a serious threat to workers, the public, or the environment, the Hazards Survey provides a hazardous material screening process for determining whether further analysis of the hazardous materials in an EPHA is required. The thresholds at which further analysis is required are discussed in Section 1.3.2.2, Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program. All areas and facilities not identified during this process to be part of the Operational Emergency Hazardous Material Program are by default covered by the Operational Emergency Base Program. The elements of the Operational Emergency Base Program at LLNL are represented and described in documents, plans, and procedures developed and maintained by individual disciplines of the ERO. Response elements are also described in the LLNL Emergency Response Capability Baseline Needs Assessment prepared by the LLNL Fire Marshal and reviewed by the LLNL Department Head of EMD. The required elements of the Operational Emergency Base