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Cabarrus County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)
The Cabarrus County LEPC conducts planning and manages information about hazardous chemicals manufactured, stored and transported within the county to assist in the protection of its citizens.
No business – whether a large factory or a small office – is immune to emergencies. If your business needs to learn more about planning for and surviving emergency situations, then please join the Cabarrus County Local Emergency Planning Committee. This committee is comprised of local business representatives and municipal and county emergency responders in effort to learn from each other and provide resources to:
- Handle on-site emergencies or chemical releases
- Effectively coordinate with local response emergency agencies
- Coordinate response to multi-agency incidents
- Initiate and Continue emergency response planning
- Understand OSHA standards
Short Term & Long Term Objectives
- County response development.
- Site specific response plans (EHS facilities), collect and review.
- Dispense public information as required by regulations - Community Right-to-Know, LEPC meeting notices, education on how public can/should protect themselves (shelter-in-place education).
- Ensure maintenance of emergency response list.
Officers
| Chairman: Jim Barberio, S & D Coffee, Inc. |
| Secretary: Saundra Adcock, Cabarrus Emergency Management |
2010 Meeting Schedule
Bimonthly meetings are held on the 6th floor of the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office & Detention Center in the EOC, Suite FM601, at 3:00PM. Meeting dates for 2010 are: February 10, May 12, August 11, November 10. The meetings are open to the public.
For more information, please call 704-920-2143.
Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
On October 17, 1986, in response to a growing concern for safety around chemical facilities, Congress enacted the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA), also known as Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA). The Act has had a far-reaching influence on issues relating to hazardous materials. EPCRA is the federal law that gives citizens the Right-to-Know about chemicals stored in our communities and the risks they pose.
View EPCRA at www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/ch116.html.
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