The mission of the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) is to develop a comprehensive emergency plan and continuously maintain it through community involvement; To maintain an all hazards plan through ongoing effective community involvement; To receive and disseminate information concerning accidental chemical releases; To collect, manage, and provide public access to information on hazardous chemicals; To educate the public about the risks from accidental and routine releases of chemicals; To work with facilities to minimize the risks of accidental releases of chemicals.

The purpose of the LEPC exercises is to improve community readiness for response to actual emergencies, identify procedural and policy inadequacies,  to improve inter-agency cooperation and resolve inter-agency conflicts as well as identify inter-agency roles and responsibilities.  Exercises will also identify resource needs, improve the effectiveness of training, improve emergency plans, procedures and actions, and build public support for emergency planning and awareness.

Safety of community members from natural and human-caused events is the primary objective of a hazardous materials emergency response. An exercise gives preparedness, response and recovery agencies the opportunity to assess their strengths and weaknesses as the result of a hazardous materials incident exercise. As the result of an exercise, LEPC members can modify the local emergency plan to help build on the strengths of the plan and consequently, eliminate the weaknesses discovered in the plan during an exercise.

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