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Planning
Roles and Responsibilities
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Under
the NCP, OSC's have the responsibility to oversee
development of the Area Contingency Plan (ACP) in
the area of the OSC’s responsibility. The NCP states
that the development of ACP's should be accomplished
in cooperation with the RRT, and designated local
and state representatives, as appropriate. In both
contingency planning and spill response, the OSC
is responsible for coordinating, directing, and
reviewing the work of other agencies, Area Committees,
RP's, and contractors to ensure compliance with
the NCP and other plans applicable to the response.
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In developing the ACP, the OSC
must coordinate with state and local response organizations,
including those represented on the State Emergency Response
Commissions (SERC's) and Local Emergency Planning Committees
(LEPC's). It is the OSC’s and Area Committee’s responsibility
to ensure that the ACP provides for a well coordinated
response that is integrated and compatible, to the greatest
extent possible, with all appropriate response plans of
local, state, and non-federal entities, and especially
with SARA Title III local emergency response plans. The
OSC should also include, to the extent possible, a discussion
of relationships with potential Responsible Party (RP)'s.
In addition, the OSC must periodically conduct drills
of spill removal capability, including fish and wildlife
response capability, without prior notice, in areas for
which ACP's are required and under relevant tank vessel
and facility response plans. In the event of a significant
discharge, OSC's should implement the ICS specified in
the ACP.
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| What
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planning roles and responsibilities? |
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As
outlined in § 300.115 of the NCP, regional planning
and coordination of preparedness and response actions
are accomplished through the RRT. The RRT agency
membership parallels that of the NRT, but also includes
state and local representation. The RRT provides
the appropriate regional mechanism for development
and coordination of preparedness activities before
a response action is taken and for coordination
of assistance and advice to the OSC during response
actions. As appropriate, the RRT also provides guidance
to Area Committees to ensure inter-area consistency
and consistency of individual ACP's with the Regional
Contingency Plan and the NCP.
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The two principal components of
the RRT mechanism are a standing team and an incident-specific
team. (See Chapter 4 for more information about the incident-specific
RRT.) The standing team consists of designated representatives
from each participating local and state government and
federal agency. There are 13 standing RRT's, one for each
of ten federal regions, and additional RRT's for Alaska,
the Caribbean, and the Pacific Basin. The role of the
standing RRT includes providing regional access to communications
systems and procedures, planning, coordination, training,
and evaluation. It also includes coordination of Area
Committees for these functions in areas within their respective
regions, as appropriate.
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