Public Sector Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)
Helping LEPCs protect and engage with their communities
The majority of the 2,760 LEPCs across the US struggle to engage their communities or strengthen their community preparedness with viable agendas and action plans. This is despite the EPA’s Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know
Act, which informs stakeholders of hazards in their community and encourages public-private partnerships to prepare for hazardous material incidents.
As communities encroach into the buffer zone around hazardous materials facilities and the transport of hazardous materials increases, there is a growing risk from pipeline distribution, crude-by-rail, fertilizer storage/distribution
and other hazardous materials. LEPCs need to engage all of their stakeholders to include schools, hospitals, and private hazmat facilities and transporters to mitigate these risks. ASG can boost a community’s preparedness by
working with the LEPC to actively engage stakeholders, conduct risk-based planning, and collaborate with private facilities to conduct joint training and exercises.
An active LEPC with a viable agenda engages the whole community and strengthens preparedness. Browse some of these resource that can make it a reality:
Online Courses
LEPC Service Flyers
- Pre-Incident Planning
- Crisis Leadership and Decision Making
- Whole Community Engagement
- Hazmat
- All-Hazards Exercise Support
Web-based Resource Pages
- National Response Center
- EPA Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB)
- Energize Your Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC)
- Guidebook for Conducting Local Hazardous Materials Commodity Flow Studies
Modeling Applications
- CAMEO (Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations)
- ALOHA Software
- Mapping Application for Response, Planning, and Local Operational Tasks (MARPLOT)
- Fast Local Emergency Evacuation Times (FLEET)
Videos
Alliance Solutions Group has worked with LEPCs/TEPCs in 43 states to strengthen preparedness through:
- Establishment of an LEPC
- Strategic planning and goal setting
- Facility and community risk assessments
- Emergency Response Plan development
- Rail incident response plan development
- Training and exercise needs assessment
- EPCRA compliance consulting
- Seminars, tabletop, functional and full-scale exercises
- Chemical plume, radiation dispersion, explosion modeling
- Evacuation modeling
- Facility-based commodity flow studies
- GIS analysis to determine vulnerable and at-risk populations
- Critical infrastructure impact analysis
- Tier II report validation studies
- Public/Private sector integrated training
- Source water impact analysis
Our all-hazards, risk-based approach to planning was published by the EPA as a new benchmark standard.
All articles contributed by ASG's CEO:
- October 2013 - Preparing Communities Through All-Hazards Planning & Analysis
- February 2014 - Preparing Communities Through All-Hazards Planning & Analysis: Phase I - Identifying the Hazards.
- April 2014 - Preparing Communities Through All-Hazards Planning & Analysis: Phase II - Assessing the Risk.
- August 2014 - Preparing Communities Through All-Hazards Planning & Analysis: Phase III - Risk Management.
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Preparing Communities through All-hazards Planning and Analysis:
Phase IV – Developing Emergency Response Procedures
Emergency Management
Emergency Response
Public Health and Medical
