Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) TAMPA BAY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS EMERGENCY PLAN Tampa Bay Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) District VIII 4000 Gateway Centre Blvd, Suite 100 Pinellas Park, Florida 33782-6136 (727) 570-5151 Ext 29 Nineteenth Revision drawn as to compliance with any Federal or State laws or regulations pertinent hereto. In preparing this plan, the Tampa Bay Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) utilized and compiled data contained in the county-prepared Hazardous Materials Annexes and the respective County Comprehensive Emergency Response Plans (CEMP). Neither the LEPC, nor any of its members or staff, attests to the validity or reliability of the information passed through this plan. No conclusions have been drawn as to compliance with any Federal or State laws or regulations pertinent hereto FORWARD TO NINETEENTH REVISION The Nineteenth Revision of the Tampa Bay Local Emergency Planning Committee Response Plan contains few changes, most of which are editorial in nature to reflect changes in population estimates and the listings of regional extremely hazardous substances facilities. The COMPLIANCE CRITERIA immediately follows. Hazards Analyses of all District VIII facilities have been placed on a schedule so that they are now current for the preceding fiscal year. Analyses are now conducted on a July to June cycle, performing 50 percent of the county’s total facilities one year and 50 percent the next on the biennial cycle. Each year is further divided with the first 50 percent (25 percent of the county’s total facilities) being due by November 1st each year and the second 50 percent (25 percent of the county’s total facilities) being due by February 1st each year. This permits an annual update of 50 percent of the total facilities. For ease of reference, changes in the Nineteenth Revision are identified by the appearance of red text. Small administrative changes such as changes in telephone numbers, area or zip codes, change in hospital names or number of available beds, response equipment inventories, etc. may not have been signified with red text. The first substantiative change concerns activities undertaken under the HMEP planning activities for the year and appear in Section 1.0. A second substantive change includes new population forecasts for the region based upon 2011 Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) figures. A third substantive change involves the updating the HMEP training activities for the year. Results of training under HMEP are also included in the Training portion in Section 14.0. A fourth substantive change consisted of recognition of newly-added or deleted facilities in terms of the SERC’s 302 facilities database within LEPC District 8.
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