ANDROSCOGGIN
COUNTY
CHEMICAL
EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE
ANDROSCOGGIN
UNIFIED EMERGENCY
OPERATIONS CENTER
45 OAK STREET, 2
COLLEGE STREET (mail)
LEWISTON,
ME 04240-7101
AUGUST
28, 2009
In the Absence of the chair
and Vice chair, the Secretary, Joanne Potvin, called the meeting to order at
0830 hours.
Committee members and guests present:
Joanne G. Potvin - Director, Androscoggin
Unified Emergency Management Agency
Kendall Putnam Asst Plans, Trng & Ops Officer,
Androscoggin Unified Emerg Mgmt Agency
Jess Smith Pioneer Plastics
Kevin Oliveira St. Marys Health Systems
Ray Potter Bates College
Timothy Bubier Deputy Director, Androscoggin Unified
Emergency Management Agency
Brian Drexel Safe Handling, Inc.
Robert Papsis Tambrads P&G
Keith Ouellette Wal-Mart Distribution Center 7014
Tom Thibeault Maine Wood Treaters, Inc.
Ray Lussier City of Auburn
Paul M. LeClair Chief Lewiston Fire Department
Keith Blais Wal-Mart Distribution Center 7014
Vivian Matkivich Lew/Aub Water Pollution Control
Authority
There
was no quorum to conduct official
business of the Committee and the Committee agreed to function by consensus.
SECRETARY'S REPORT
The Secretary's report for the meeting of 26 June was
accepted, by consensus, without change. Meeting minutes are now posted on the
County EMA Website: http://www.androscogginema.org
A.
Committee Secretary reported there was one request for
community right-to-know information since the last meeting verbal request
received from Lewiston Fire Department pertaining to chemicals at Pioneer
Plastics the proper request form for CRTK info was sent and the Fire
Department has since withdrawn the verbal request as they received the info
needed from Auburn Fire Department
B.
Committee Secretary provided the SERC and SERC Training
Reports minutes have not yet been received from the July 14 SERC meeting; EMA
Training Report staff continuing to work with locals on H1N1 plans and
procedures available to assist business and industry with planning and
training in this area H1N1 planning checklists have been sent to all who
should be concerned; ICS 100 and 700 was conducted for Pioneer Plastics on
August 4 and 18; staff is continuing to work with Sabattus local officials with
development of their emergency operations plan; County staff will participate
in the second of two state-wide County EOC exercises on October 29 which will
be a 24-hour County EOC exercise; staff participated in Bates Colleges
full-scale exercise on August 20 which involved participation from numerous
local emergency response, County EMA staff, DEP and private sector interests; Ray
Potter provided a brief report; the County CERT/CART team is currently
undergoing the ICS 100 program; Pioneer Plastics reported they are doing a fire brigade training
program call Jessica Smith for more info
C.
Financial Report: Funds received since last meeting: $4,215.34
for LEPC Qtrly Stipend + $262.for CERT/CART invoices + $2,367.00 for contract
planner invoice + $167.41 earned interest for June and July for a total of
$7,011.75; total expenditures $443,016.62; unencumbered balance of $26,766.66;
encumbered balance of $19,052.19; purchases made since last meeting toner
cartridge for printer
D.
Status of Homeland Security Grant 2009 - Where are we
now?
FY-09 HSGP
opened on Monday 17 August application information sent out applications
due back to County EMA offices NLT 4 PM on 25 September; County Review
Committee will convene on October 5 to review and prioritize the applications
and make recommendations to the State Review Committee to approve/deny this
is due to MEMA NLT 4 PM October 8 there is only $2.227 million available for
state-wide competitive applications
E.
COBRA Team status: nothing to report
NEW BUSINESS
A. SERC adopted rulemaking pertaining to
chemical reporting and fee payments EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY - All Reports and Fees will be due March 1 for
the previous year. The Registration and
Inventory Fee Worksheet have been combined and will now be a single form due on
March 1 for the previous year. NO
reports or fees will be due on October 1st. Due to these changes, MEMA will be sending
out the normal reminder package during the month of November, in plenty of time
to prepare all of your 2009 submissions for the march 1, 2010 deadline. Please call here if you have questions or
concerns.
OTHER BUSINESS
A. Jessica Smith provided a
brief summary of the recent fire events one note is that hospitals and EMA
were not notified (as a heads-up courtesy call since there is no requirement
to do so)
SCHEDULING OF NEXT MEETING
Next Meeting is SEPTEMBER 25 October 30 November 20 December 18, 2009 @ 8:30 AM at the County EMA
Office located at 45 Oak Street beneath Lewiston Central Fire station please
be sure to use the Oak Street entrance
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting
adjourned at 9:02 A.M.
C:\LEPCMTG.MIN
LEPC
MEETING REMINDER
THE NEXT LEPC MEETING
WILL BE HELD
ON
FRIDAY
25 SEPTEMBER 2009
AT
COUNTY
EMA OFFICE
LOCATED
AT 45 OAK STREET, LEWISTON
(BENEATH
LEWISTON CENTRAL FIRE STATION)
AT
8:30
a.m
ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY
LEPC MEETING / MEETING MINUTES FORWARDED
YEAR 2009
|
MONTH
|
MEETING DATE
|
MINUTES SUBMITTED
|
|
JANUARY
|
01/30/09
|
02/02/09
|
|
FEBRUARY
|
02/27/09
|
03/24/09
|
|
MARCH
|
03/27/09
|
04/02/09
|
|
APRIL
|
04/24/09
|
05/14/09
|
|
MAY
|
05/29/09
|
06/23/09
|
|
JUNE
|
06/26/09
|
07/17/09
|
|
JULY
|
NO MEETING
|
-----------
|
|
AUGUST
|
08/28/09
|
09/22/09
|
|
SEPTEMBER
|
09/25/09
|
|
|
OCTOBER
|
10/30/09
|
|
|
NOVEMBER
|
11/20/09
|
|
|
DECEMBER
|
12/18/09
|
|