323.60 Hazardous substances information and emergency planning.

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(1)Definitions. In this subchapter:

(b)“Committee” means a local emergency planning committee created under s. 59.54

(a).

(c)“Facility” means the buildings and contiguous area of a single location which is owned, operated or controlled by the same person and used for conducting the activities of a public or private agency, or as defined in 42 USC 11049 (4).

(d)“Facility plan” means a plan for response to the release of hazardous substances from a specific facility, prepared as a component of a local emergency response plan under sub.

(a)and under 42 USC 11003 .

(e)“Federal act” means 42 USC 11000 to 11050 .

(f)“Hazardous chemical” means a hazardous chemical covered under 42 USC 11021 and 11022 as defined under 29 CFR 1910.1200

(c).

(g)“Hazardous substance” means an extremely hazardous substance included in the list published by the administrator of the U.S. environmental protection agency under 42 USC 11002

(2)or a hazardous substance as defined under 42 USC 9601

(14)or designated by the administrator of the U.S. environmental protection agency under 42 USC 9602 (a).

(gm)“Minerals” mean unbeneficiated metallic ore but does not include mineral aggregates such as stone, sand, and gravel.

(h)“Private agency” means a privately owned and operated research facility or educational institution.

(i)“Public agency” means a state or local office, agency, board, commission, committee, council, department, research facility, educational institution or public body corporate or politic created by constitution, law, ordinance, rule or order, or a governmental or quasi-governmental corporation.

(j)“Threshold quantity” means a designated quantity of any of the following:

1. A hazardous chemical which, if used by or present at a facility, makes the facility subject to the requirements of sub.

(c).

2. A toxic chemical which, if used by or present at a facility, makes the facility subject to the requirements of sub.

(d).

(k)“Toxic chemical” means a toxic chemical covered under 42 USC 11023 (c).

(2)Duties of the division. The division shall do all of the following:

(a)Serve as the state emergency response commission under the federal act.

(b)Promulgate rules necessary for the implementation of the federal act.

(bg)Promulgate rules establishing an amount not to exceed $6,000 that may be an eligible cost for computers in an emergency planning grant under s. 323.61

(br).

(c)Oversee the implementation of local emergency response plans by committees and provide assistance to committees in executing their duties under sub.

(b)to the greatest extent possible.

(d)Administer the grant program under s. 323.61 .

(e)At least annually, submit a report to the governor indicating whether each county has a committee and whether the composition of each committee conforms to 42 USC 11001 (c).

(f)If the composition of a county’s committee does not conform to 42 USC 11001 (c), inform the county board of that fact and of the county board’s duty, under s. 59.54

(a)1. , to create a committee with members as specified in 42 USC 11001 (c).

(3)Duties of committees. A committee shall do all of the following:

(a)Carry out all requirements of a committee under the federal act.

(b)Upon receipt by the committee or the committee’s designated community emergency coordinator of a notification under sub.

(b)of the release of a hazardous substance, take all actions necessary to ensure the implementation of the local emergency response plan.