Response Plan Overview

1. Initially, all IRZ and PAZ sectors will Shelter-In-Place and await further instructions.

2. The IC will review the initial WebPuff AEGL hazard assessment and confer with the UMCD commander to determine the exact nature of the event, potential for escalation, and estimated time to containment. Based on the results of this consultation and ongoing hazard analysis, the IC will make initial evacuation decisions, if appropriate.

3. Based on the situation analysis and consultation as outlined above, protective actions will be determined for those areas outside the IRZ and PAZ but subject to potential risk as a consequence of the event. If protective actions are required, they will be developed and communicated to the at risk PZ population.

Initial Protective Actions

• Upon notification of Community Level Event by Umatilla Chemical Depot authorities, Umatilla County E-911/Dispatch Center activates the A & N System.

• CSEPP staff, dispatch staff, or Community Liaison Officer (CLO) notify Incident Commander (IC) and provide initial essential information.

• Response personnel, ECC/EOC staff and key personnel will be alerted via Alert and Notification System (ANS) paging systems, radios and call down trees.

• All citizens in the IRZ/PAZ will be instructed by pre-recorded messages (in English and Spanish) to immediately "Shelter in Place". (These messages are played automatically over the A & N System TAR and EAS).

• Sirens will activate to alert people who are outdoors, directing them to seek shelter indoors and listen to their TAR.

• Highway reader boards (activated by Umatilla County E-911 Center) and the Highway Advisory Radio (HAR)(activated by ODOT) will warn the motoring public. (See Annexes A and G)

• Hermiston Police Department activates Evacuation Control System within IRZ/PAZ to direct highway traffic.

• If schools are in session, over pressurized facilities will be activated and students and staff will relocate to safe areas. Schools with evacuation plans will evacuate students and staff to designated host facilities. (See Annex J)

• Law enforcement agencies will isolate the at risk area by staffing access control points. (See Annex A)

(1) I-84 @ Port of Morrow Exit (Exit 165) Boardman Police Department
(2) Oregon 207 @ Bombing Range Road Morrow Co. Sheriff's Dept
(3) I-84 @ Barnhart Road (Exit 202) Oregon State Police
(4) U.S. 730 @ Oregon 37 Umatilla County Sheriff's Department

• Special events or facilities with protective action plans will implement them. (See Annex G)

• IC takes control of all assigned Emergency Services Personnel and Equipment in the IRZ/PAZ areas of Morrow and Umatilla Counties. Based on situation analysis, coordinates deployment of response assets with the Operations Section.

• IC establishes communications with County ECC/EOCs and UMCD EOC. (See Annex E)

• If time permits and plume model data indicates it can safely be accomplished, Irrigon fire personnel, monitoring and decon equipment will be relocated to the Boardman staging area. (See Annexes C and D)

• Agencies with a community response task force mission will prepare their equipment (Mobile Monitoring/command vehicle, pumper, tender and ambulance, etc.) and personnel for task force deployment at the direction of the Incident Commander/Operations Section. (See Annex C.)

• Decontamination units will deploy to designated sites. (See Annex D)

• ACPs staffed by law enforcement personnel will be turned over to appropriate agencies. (See Annex A)

• IC coordinates proposed evacuations with Morrow and Umatilla ECC/EOCs for planning logistic public alerting and instruction support. (See Annex G)

• Persons who have sheltered in place are directed to ventilate their safe rooms at appropriate times (See Annex F)

• Persons who ventilate their safe rooms will be directed to self-extract, with assistance to the extent possible. (See Annex F)

Implement Procedures

  1. UMCD simultaneously notifies Umatilla County, Morrow County and CTUIR E-911/Dispatch Centers and Hermiston Safety Center of a Community Level Emergency. (OSP Dispatch is also notified via All Call/Group Call notification)
  2. Umatilla County E-911/Dispatch Center activates the A & N System.
  3. ODOT Activates HAR system.
  4. Dispatchers at Morrow County and Umatilla County ECC/EOCs notify all key agencies and personnel listed on their notification rosters, informing them of the Community Level Event via radio and/or paging systems.
  5. Hazard Analyst or UMCD Community Liaison Officer (CLO) will provide WebPuff plume and concentration projections via the internet and IRIS Wi-Fi system.
  6. Law enforcement agencies establish ACPs.
  7. Dispatchers call in additional dispatcher personnel for assistance.
  8. The Incident Commander (IC), Command and general staff report to the Hermiston Safety Center, analyze the situation, and then begin appropriate immediate response actions. The IC and staff will utilize incident response priorities as follows:
    1. Life Safety
    2. Continuous Situational Awareness/Stabilization
    3. Environmental concerns
  9. IC Contacts the UMCD Commander (or designated representative) via the VTC and receives on post situation brief and coordinates off post deployment of RTAPs. (DMRS will be used as backup to VTC.)
  10. IC briefs the Command and general staff on the situation and receives status reports.
  11. The Law Enforcement Branch Director confirms via 450 mHz talk group that appropriate ACPs have been established (See Annex A) and log results. (OSP Channel 49 will be back up.)
  12. The Fire & EMS Branch Directors ensure that at risk response assets are relocating (if possible) and other response assets are reporting to deployment locations. (See Annexes B, C and D.)
  13. The Law Enforcement Branch Director confirms that Sheriff's Department boats are launched to enforce the Marine Safety Zone of the Columbia River.
  14. If school is in session, county ECC/EOCs will contact appropriate school authorities in their county to de-termine status of shelter-in-place and evacuation protective actions. Status, and any reported prob-lems associated with schools, will be reported to the Operations Section.
  15. Community response teams prepare for deployment; notify the Operations Section when they are ready to accept missions. (See Annex C.)
  16. Umatilla and Morrow County decontamination units will deploy as directed and will notify the Op-erations Section when they are ready for operations. (See Annex D.)
  17. Medical facilities prepare to receive patients, Good Shepherd Hospital activates its over pressuriza-tion system, and St. Anthony Hospital assumes responsibility as lead medical facility. (See Annex B.) If Good Shepherd is under the plume projection it will notify Operations that it is buttoning up and will not receive patients.
  18. IC contacts the ECC/EOCs of Umatilla and Morrow Counties to provide an initial update of the situation and receive a status report on the following:
    1. Status of the ANS.
    2. Actions taken to ensure that rail traffic, highway traffic (see ODOT regional plan and Annex A), Columbia River boat traffic and flight traffic (temporary flight restrictions for airspace beyond the UMCD security area) are all stopped.
    3. Status of School protective actions
    4. Status of Declarations of Emergency and delegations of authority (County, State and Feder-al).
    5. Status of assistance centers and mass care shelters. (See Annex K)
    6. Status of the ICS overhead support team, outside supporting agencies and state HAZMAT teams.
    7. Most recent hazard analysis briefing.
    8. Status of special event/facility protective actions. (Three Rivers Correctional Facility, Uma-tilla County Fair, Wall Eye Tournament, etc.) (See Annex G)
    9. Status of evacuation planning, as appropriate. (Based on situation briefing from UMCD Commander and hazard analysis, IC and appropriate elected/designated officials make de-cisions on evacuations, if appropriate. (Planning section in the ECC/EOCs will be tasked to develop evacuation plans for execution by the Operations Section.) (See Annex G)
    10. Status of Shelter-in-place ventilation decision time lines and implementing instructions for delivery via the TARs/EAS. (See Annex F)
    11. Status of extraction planning. (See Annex F)
    12. Status of preparation to transition to a state or federal incident management team after the initial emergency response phase.
    13. Status of requested state and federal assets.

Appendix 1: ICS Forms

OSFM Incident Management Teams Forms

(Microsoft Word templates)