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A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Chapter 8 - Identifying Shortfalls where Additional/Different Capabilities Are Warranted
Pages 41-41

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... , a large release of chlorine is the biggest concern, followed by a BLEVE of a rail tank car carrying ethylene. While this Guide does not recommend specific thresholds above which a scenario's risk metric warrants action, each jurisdiction can easily identify the top scenarios and examine the range of values for breakpoints that could be used as threshold values.
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