Office of Hazardous Materials Planning and Analysis
Mission:
To provide integrated planning, development, and evaluation of
programmatic activities for the Associate Administrator for Hazardous
Materials Safety; to assure that these activities are fully coordinated
internally and externally; and to maintain the supporting information
systems.
The functions of this Office are:
- Design the framework for a long-range program plan. Lead the effort to update the plan annually;
- Develop and implement performance monitoring systems for the annual operating plan.
Identify problems and coordinate their resolution.
- Provide technical support in developing resource, budget, and program plans;
- Examine impacts of regulatory, legislative, and program activities, on safety, environmental, economic,
social, and technological issues;
- Identify technological and engineering information needs for future rulemaking;
- Define requirements and manage the Hazardous Materials Information System (HMIS)
and serve as liaison with other system users; and
- Establish reporting systems to maintain incident and operations
data from all modal carriers of hazardous materials (packaged
materials only for water transport), and from manufacturers of
containers used for hazardous materials transport.
- Provide assistance and documents requested pursuant to the
Freedom of Information Act,
5 U.S.C. ยง 552 and Privacy Act, for the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety.
- Provide financial and technical assistance as well as national direction and
guidance to enhance State and local hazardous materials emergency planning and training pursuant to the
Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness (HMEP) Grant Program.
The functions of this Office are also subject to the executive
direction of the Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials
Safety.
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