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[CITE: 42USC11005]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
       CHAPTER 116--EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--EMERGENCY PLANNING AND NOTIFICATION
 
Sec. 11005. Emergency training and review of emergency systems


(a) Emergency training

                            (1) Programs

        Officials of the United States Government carrying out existing 
    Federal programs for emergency training are authorized to 
    specifically provide training and education programs for Federal, 
    State, and local personnel in hazard mitigation, emergency 
    preparedness, fire prevention and control, disaster response, long-
    term disaster recovery, national security, technological and natural 
    hazards, and emergency processes. Such programs shall provide 
    special emphasis for such training and education with respect to 
    hazardous chemicals.

                 (2) State and local program support

        There is authorized to be appropriated to the Federal Emergency 
    Management Agency for each of the fiscal years 1987, 1988, 1989, and 
    1990, $5,000,000 for making grants to support programs of State and 
    local governments, and to support university-sponsored programs, 
    which are designed to improve emergency planning, preparedness, 
    mitigation, response, and recovery capabilities. Such programs shall 
    provide special emphasis with respect to emergencies associated with 
    hazardous chemicals. Such grants may not exceed 80 percent of the 
    cost of any such program. The remaining 20 percent of such costs 
    shall be funded from non-Federal sources.

                         (3) Other programs

        Nothing in this section shall affect the availability of 
    appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for any 
    programs carried out by such agency other than the programs referred 
    to in paragraph (2).

(b) Review of emergency systems

                             (1) Review

        The Administrator shall initiate, not later than 30 days after 
    October 17, 1986, a review of emergency systems for monitoring, 
    detecting, and preventing releases of extremely hazardous substances 
    at representative domestic facilities that produce, use, or store 
    extremely hazardous substances. The Administrator may select 
    representative extremely hazardous substances from the substances on 
    the list referred to in section 11002(a) of this title for the 
    purposes of this review. The Administrator shall report interim 
    findings to the Congress not later than seven months after October 
    17, 1986, and issue a final report of findings and recommendations 
    to the Congress not later than 18 months after October 17, 1986. 
    Such report shall be prepared in consultation with the States and 
    appropriate Federal agencies.

                             (2) Report

        The report required by this subsection shall include the 
    Administrator's findings regarding each of the following:
            (A) The status of current technological capabilities to (i) 
        monitor, detect, and prevent, in a timely manner, significant 
        releases of extremely hazardous substances, (ii) determine the 
        magnitude and direction of the hazard posed by each release, 
        (iii) identify specific substances, (iv) provide data on the 
        specific chemical composition of such releases, and (v) 
        determine the relative concentrations of the constituent 
        substances.
            (B) The status of public emergency alert devices or systems 
        for providing timely and effective public warning of an 
        accidental release of extremely hazardous substances into the 
        environment, including releases into the atmosphere, surface 
        water, or groundwater from facilities that produce, store, or 
        use significant quantities of such extremely hazardous 
        substances.
            (C) The technical and economic feasibility of establishing, 
        maintaining, and operating perimeter alert systems for detecting 
        releases of such extremely hazardous substances into the 
        atmosphere, surface water, or groundwater, at facilities that 
        manufacture, use, or store significant quantities of such 
        substances.

                         (3) Recommendations

        The report required by this subsection shall also include the 
    Administrator's recommendations for--
            (A) initiatives to support the development of new or 
        improved technologies or systems that would facilitate the 
        timely monitoring, detection, and prevention of releases of 
        extremely hazardous substances, and
            (B) improving devices or systems for effectively alerting 
        the public in a timely manner, in the event of an accidental 
        release of such extremely hazardous substances.

(Pub. L. 99-499, title III, Sec. 305, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1735.)
