65-5722. Same; powers and duties.
65-5722
65-5722. Same; powers and duties.The commission on emergency planning and response shall have thefollowing functions, powers and duties:
(a) Carry out all requirements of the federal emergency planning andcommunity right-to-know act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. 11001-11005, and amendmentsthereto, hereinafter called the "federal act";
(b) provide assistance and advice in establishing policy for the coordinationof state agency activities relating to emergency training, preparedness,planning, and response;
(c) provide assistance and advice in establishing policy and procedures forchemical release reporting and prevention, transportation, manufacture,storage, handling, and use;
(d) facilitate and advise the division of emergency management, the adjutantgeneral, and others in the preparation and implementation of all emergencyplans prepared by state agencies;
(e) facilitate and advise the division of emergency management, the adjutantgeneral, and others in the preparation and implementation of statewide,interjurisdictional, and local emergency plans prepared in accordance withstate and federal law;
(f) designate, and revise as necessary, the boundaries of emergency planningdistricts in accordance with the federal act;
(g) approve the local emergency planning committee for each emergencyplanning district;
(h) review reports about responses to disaster emergencies and makerecommendations to the appropriate parties involved in the response concerningimproved prevention, mitigation, and preparedness;
(i) provide assistance and advice to the division of emergency management andthe adjutant general in coordinating, advising, or planning tasks related tocommunity right-to-know reporting, toxic chemical release reporting, managementof hazardous substances, emergency planning and preparedness for all types ofhazards and emergency planning and preparednessfor all types of disasters, asdefined in K.S.A. 48-904, and amendments thereto;
(j) recommend procedures to integrate, as appropriate, hazardous substanceresponse planning under 42 U.S.C. 11001-11005, federal contingency planningunder 33 U.S.C. 1321 and other federal laws as applicable to hazardoussubstance discharges, and state, regional, and local planning;
(k) provide recommendations and advice to the adjutant general and thesecretary of health and environment regarding the adoption of regulations asauthorized to carry out the purposes of all state hazard preparedness andplanning laws and the federal act, 42 U.S.C. 11001-11005;
(l) approve the fees established by rules and regulations of the adjutantgeneral to cover all or part of the total operational costs of implementing theprovisions of the federal act; and
(m) provide assistance and advice to the division of emergency managementand the adjutant general in developing and implementing a plan for regionalemergency medical response teams.
History: Executive Reorganization Order No. 29,L. 1999, ch. 192, § 2;L. 2002, ch. 149, § 6; July 1.