CHEMICAL
EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE
APRIL
25, 2008
Committee Chairman, Phil
Morgan, called the meeting to order at 0830 hours.
Committee members and guests present:
Joanne G. Potvin - Director,
Mark Ryberg Proctor & Gamble Auburn
Jessica Smith Pioneer Plastics
Kendall Putnam Asst Plans, Training & Ops Officer,
Philip Morgan At Large
Paul M. LeClair Chief Lewiston Fire Department
Jeremy Wherren International Paper
Jamie Robinson St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad
Vivian Matkivich Lew/Aub Water Pollution Control
Authority
Ray Lussier Auburn Safety Officer
Wayne Werts Chief Auburn Fire Department
Andy DEramo Director Lew/Aub 911
John Silvestri Knight-Celotex
Ken Allen DCP Midstream (formerly Duke Energy)
Eric Lynes Red Cross
There
was a quorum to conduct official business of the Committee.
SECRETARY'S REPORT
The Secretary's report for the meeting of 28 March was
accepted without change. Meeting minutes
are now posted on the web site: http://www.androscogginema.org
OLD BUSINESS
A. Committee Secretary reported there were no requests for community right-to-know information since the last meeting
B. Committee Secretary provided the SERC and SERC Training Reports no report until after the meeting of May 20; Annual SERC HM Conference is scheduled for June 11-12 at the Augusta Civic Center Joanne has registration forms if you need some; EMA Training Report Hazmat/WMD Awareness Training completed for Group Two of Lew/Aub 911 on April 24; Phase Two of the Tri-County / three-phase exercise is the Functional Exercise was conducted on May 3 in Canton and part three, the full-scale exercise, will be conducted on October 11; request from Sabattus Fire Department for a full Hazmat Ops Course has been approved by SERC and the course is scheduled for April 28, 30 and May 6,8 and 10 there were no other training reports
C. Financial Report: Funds received since last meeting: $3,459.17 for $1,365.00 for Hazmat Ops Refresher Training for Sabattus Fire Dept + $1,782.98 for HSGP invoice (contract planner) + $250.00 as additional rebate for the Okidata printer + March earned interest of $61.19; total LEPC expenditures $380,014.78; unencumbered balance $26,779.55 and encumbered balance $11,563.98; purchases made since last meeting: none NOTE: with the additional $250 rebate on the Okidata printer, making it a total rebate of $500.00, the net price for that printer is only $99.98
D. Status of Homeland Security Grant 2007 - Where are we now?
Nothing new to report on
E. COBRA Team status: no responses to report on since the last meeting
F. IMAT Vehicle status: RCM radio techs have removed all radios and interoperability unit from Maxi MERV and waiting on their call to schedule re-installation in Mini MERV; computers and docking stations have been received and programmed; printer still to be ordered; vehicle currently at Whited Truck Center for installation of inverter and other electrical components
G. Status of Facilities reporting some of the facilities that reported only to MEMA and not to the LEPC have now complied with reporting to us and the same for facilities that reported to us and not to MEMA they have now reported to MEMA there are a few stragglers who will be contacted in the next couple of weeks
NEW BUSINESS
A. Incidents at Safe Handling April 5 and April 21 debriefing scheduled by Safe Handling for May 7 pertaining to the April 5 event; Joanne will contact Rob Somerville and request that he do a brief presentation on these events at the next LEPC meeting
B. Notification of Lew/Aub 911 via cell phone IMPORTANT INFORMATION: if 911 is dialed from a cell phone, that call is automatically routed to Maine State Police in Gray and the call is NOT forwarded to the local 911 service except for an emergency; to report chemical spills to the fire department, when they reach or exceed the established RQ, you need to call that fire department directly for Lew/Aub fire departments, you should dial 911 from a regular, conventional telephone OR dial 784-6421 from a cell phone
C. Sharing of emergency information when a facility has an incident that may involve surrounding exposures, please be sure to notify those exposures even if the incident does not result in any major problem, those exposures should be called as a good neighbor policy a recent event resulted in streets being closed and the facility surrounded by a large number of police and fire vehicles; this concerned surrounding exposures when their employees could not get to work and especially when they learned that the facility having the event had evacuated its employees a call to that facility and other exposures would have prevented them from being alarmed / concerned about their safety; please review your plans to ensure that all of your facilitys exposures have been identified and that notification numbers are current the EMA staff can assist you in identifying your exposures and providing notification numbers
OTHER BUSINESS
A. none
SCHEDULING OF NEXT MEETING
Next Meeting is MAY 30,
JUNE 27, JULY 25, AUGUST 29, SEPTEMBER 26, OCTOBER 31, NOVEMBER 21, DECEMBER 19
- 8:30 A.M. at the Androscoggin Unified Emergency Management Agency located beneath Lewiston
Fire Headquarters at 45 Oak Street in Lewiston please be sure to use the Oak
Street entrance to the EMA office.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting
adjourned at 9:20 A.M.