[ ] reducing accidents?

[ ] reducing vulnerability zones and accident potentials?

[ ] improving emergency response and mitigation?

[ ] established goals for public access to chemical hazards information?

[ ] set process objectives (for funding, participation, communication, etc.) and annually evaluated progress toward achieving goals?

B. Structure and Process - Has Your LEPC….

[ ] achieved genuinely broad-based and balanced membership?

[ ] secured adequate funding sources and professional staffing (through legislation, agency budgets, donations, etc.)?

[ ] adopted a mission statement and by-laws?

[ ] held regular, well-attended meetings (at least quarterly)?

[ ] held formal meetings (advance agenda, written minutes)?

[ ] organized active subcommittees and established clear member roles?

[ ] maintained policy independence from the host agency?

[ ] produced an annual report (covering trends in accidents, hazards, enforcement, drills, site-specific risk reduction, etc.)?

[ ] utilized external resources such as other LEPCs and government agencies (e.g., to obtain training materials?)

C. Community Hazards Analysis – Has Your LEPC…

(For facilities with extremely hazardous substances, EHSs):

[ ] developed easily understood community maps showing EHS facilities, vulnerability zones, and transportation routes?

[ ] obtained needed EHS facility data through questionnaires, site visits, and document requests (using EPCRA 303(d) (3) authority?

[ ] obtained EHS facility process hazard analysis (prepared under OSHA's Process Safety Management regulations)?

[ ] asked transportation carriers to identify chemicals and volumes moving through the community?

[ ] prepared or obtained “worst-case” and lesser release scenarios at each EHS facility and for transportation?

[ ] identified critical facilities, vulnerable environments, and potentially exposed populations (e.g., schools, nursing homes, residential areas, workers on site)?

[ ] reviewed hazard analysis with EHS facility managers and workers (including shelter-in-place and evacuation needs)?

[ ] established computerized hazards analysis capabilities?

[ ] prioritized hazards (e.g., by vulnerability zone)?

D. Emergency Response Planning – Has Your LEPC….

[ ] submitted a site-specific emergency plan to the State Emergency Response Commission?

[ ] exercised the emergency plan and corrected identified weaknesses?

[ ] ensured coordination between EHS facilities and fire departments, as well as other response organizations (police, hospitals, etc.)?

[ ] sponsored training for fire, medical, police, hazmat teams, and other response personnel?

[ ] ensured that hazards analyses are incorporated into fire pre-plans?

[ ] established alert and warning systems (and coordinated systems among facilities)?

[ ] established means to determine the severity of a release, and the area and population likely to be affected?

[ ] planned shelters and evacuation routes?

[ ] designated community and facility emergency response coordinators?

[ ] maintained an inventory of emergency response resources (equipment, facilities and expertise)?

[ ] provided educational protective actions (evacuation/shelter-in-place)?

[ ] evaluated the protective capacity of shelter-in-place structures?

[ ] acknowledged the limits of emergency response capabilities for protecting people, property, and the environment?

E. Accident Prevention – Has Your LEPC….

[ ] promoted exploration of inherently safer technologies (involving safer chemicals, lower pressure or temperatures, less storage, fewer shipments, etc.)?

[ ] promoted other facility safety improvement (e.g., secondary containment, automatic shutoffs, alarms, etc.)?

[ ] provided the hazard analysis to planning commissions, zoning boards, public works, citizen advisory councils, and other local entities?

[ ] acquainted facilities with hazard reduction resources (e.g., financing)?

[ ] held seminars for facility personnel, union health and safety committees, etc.?

[ ] analyzed spill reports for response and prevention lessons?

[ ] publicized lessons learned and best practices?

[ ] given recognition for hazard reduction efforts (e.g., annual awards)?

F. Community Right-to-Know – Has Your LEPC….

[ ] publicized availability of right-to-know information?

[ ] computerized data for ease of access and analysis?

[ ] established a convenient information request process?

[ ] provided Tier II chemical storage information as required?

[ ] publicized community hazard maps with vulnerability zones through libraries and news media?

[ ] publicized options for reducing vulnerable zones (e.g., through safer technologies)?

[ ] ensured that meetings are accessible and well-publicized (time, place, publicity)?

[ ] worked with communities concerned about specific sites (e.g., through good neighbor agreements)?

G. Enforcement – Has Your LEPC….

[ ] publicized reporting requirements to covered facilities and transportation carriers?

[ ] provided compliance to facilities and carriers?

[ ] uncovered and prosecuted non-reporting firms?

[ ] pursued beneficial expenditures in settling citizen suits against non-reporting firms?

H. Risk Management Planning – Has Your LEPC….

[ ] evaluated its own capacity to review hazards and communicate RMP information to the public?

[ ] offered compliance assistance to covered facilities?

[ ] prepared to incorporate options for reducing vulnerability zones into public communications?