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LLNL Emergency Management Plan (EPlan) Rev 27 January 2022 82 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 State’s radiological capabilities and set up the joint/unified organization to receive any Federal assets such as the Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center which is six hours away. The State Dose Assessment Center is organizationally designed to integrate with the Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center organization. Working with the Federal and State assets, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services would direct and coordinate the assessment of deposition, calculate dose, and create recommendations to local decision-makers for reentry, return, relocation, and all agricultural impacts from the materials. The State could make a request to the LLNL EOC that LLNL utilize the Federal RAP team at LLNL to assist with offsite monitoring. Such a request would be handled by the EOC per Section 6.1.3 of this Emergency Plan. Under California law, the local jurisdiction (i.e., City of Livermore and Alameda County) has the responsibility for the safety of their public. If they do not have the capability to determine or respond to a risk, they would request assistance from the State (State Emergency Services Act). California Department of Public Health and the California Office of Emergency Services would