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HMCRP Report 5: A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases (2011)
Hazardous Material Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP)

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Transportation Research Board. "Appendix G - Final Report for HMCRP Project 03." HMCRP Report 5: A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011.

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Front Matter (R1-R9)
Introduction (1-2)
How to Use This Document (3-4)
Balancing Assessment with Planning Capabilities of a Local Emergency Response Organization (5-6)
Defining the Risk Metric (7-7)
Vulnerability (8-8)
Summary of Risk Metric Evaluation Steps (9-10)
Terminology to Represent Emergency Response Capability (11-11)
Defining Emergency Response Capability Tiers (12-14)
Determining Your Teams' Capability Tiers (15-15)
Establishing Your Performance Objectives (16-21)
Material Categorization - Incident Release Types (22-23)
Additional Sources of Information (24-24)
Documentation - Creating a Hazardous Materials Portfolio (25-25)
Transportation Corridors (Mobile Sources) (26-27)
Defining Consequences (28-28)
Estimating Human-Health Consequences (29-30)
Estimating Environmental Consequences (31-31)
Selecting the Consequence Value (32-32)
Emergency Response Capability Factor (33-34)
Response Time Factor (35-35)
Quantifying the Mitigating Effects (36-36)
Adding Risk to the Hazardous Materials Portfolio (37-38)
Hazardous Materials Portfolio Example (39-40)
Chapter 8 - Identifying Shortfalls where Additional/Different Capabilities Are Warranted (41-41)
Reallocating Resources (42-42)
Hazardous Materials Route Restrictions (43-43)
Sharing Emergency Response Capability Assessments (44-44)
Acronyms (45-45)
Appendix A - Information Sources (46-61)
Appendix B - Estimating Vulnerability (62-65)
Appendix C - Estimating the Consequence Term in the Risk Metric Equation (66-70)
Appendix D - Additional Details on Capability Assessment (71-72)
Appendix E - Estimating Emergency Response Times (73-75)
Appendix F - Bibliography (76-77)
Appendix G - Final Report for HMCRP Project 03 (78-108)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications (109-109)