42 U.S.C. § 11005 — Emergency training and review of emergency systems

(a) Emergency training. (1) Officials carrying out existing Federal emergency-training programs may provide training and education for Federal, State^*, and local personnel in hazard mitigation, emergency preparedness, fire prevention and control, disaster response, long-term disaster recovery, national security, technological and natural hazards, and emergency processes. These programs must give special emphasis to hazardous chemicals. (2) For each of fiscal years 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990, Congress may appropriate $5,000,000 to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for grants supporting State and local government programs and university programs that improve emergency planning, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. These programs must give special emphasis to emergencies involving hazardous chemicals. A grant may cover no more than 80 percent of a program’s cost. Non-Federal sources must fund the remaining 20 percent. (3) This section does not affect the availability of FEMA appropriations for any other FEMA program. (b) Review of emergency systems. (1) Review. No later than 30 days after October 17, 1986, the Administrator^* must begin reviewing systems for monitoring, detecting, and preventing releases of extremely hazardous substances at representative domestic facilities that produce, use, or store extremely hazardous substances. The Administrator may select representative substances from the section 11002(a) list. The Administrator must report interim findings to Congress no later than 7 months after October 17, 1986, and must issue a final report of findings and recommendations to Congress no later than 18 months after that date. The report must be prepared in consultation with the States and appropriate Federal agencies. (2) Report. The report must include the Administrator’s findings about: (A) the current technological ability to (i) timely monitor, detect, and prevent significant releases of extremely hazardous substances; (ii) determine the size and direction of the danger caused by each release^*; (iii) identify particular substances; (iv) provide data about the particular chemical composition of the releases; and (v) determine the relative concentrations of the substances making up the releases; (B) public emergency alert devices or systems that can timely and effectively warn the public about an accidental release of extremely hazardous substances into the environment^*, including a release into the air, surface water, or groundwater from a facility^* that produces, stores, or uses significant quantities of those substances; and (C) the technical and economic feasibility of creating, maintaining, and operating perimeter alert systems that detect releases of those substances into the air, surface water, or groundwater at facilities that manufacture, use, or store significant quantities of them. (3) Recommendations. The report must also include the Administrator’s recommendations for: (A) initiatives supporting the development of new or improved technologies or systems that would help timely monitor, detect, and prevent releases of extremely hazardous substances; and (B) improving devices or systems that can effectively alert the public in a timely way after an accidental release of those substances.