The Local Emergency Planning Committee held a special meeting Wednesday to receive authority for Geary County to participate in a multi-county Commodity Flow Study. The committee provided approval from the LEPC members in attendance to sign the necessary paperwork for the Commodity Flow Study.
The project will construct and publish a comprehensive report on the goods that are moving through the particular area of interest. The study will identify hazardous materials transportation flow patterns in the study area, identify fixed facilities that handle, store, and transport hazardous materials, perform a general assessment of issues regarding hazardous materials transport, and perform an analysis of the data and assess vulnerabilities.
Transportation Research Board’s Guidebook for Conducting Local Hazardous Materials Commodity Flow Studies is designed to support risk assessment, emergency response preparedness, resource allocation, and analyses of hazardous commodity flows across jurisdictions. This Guidance needs to be followed for all hazardous materials commodity flow survey (HMCFS) projects funded with HMEP grant program funds. To view this guidance or to order it, please refer to the link http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/165775.aspx.