A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases (2011) / Chapter Skim
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In a broad sense, the improvement of emergency response capability will offset the risk metric used in this Guide. However, this factor applies only to improvements that directly affect the tier assessment for existing response resources or teams, or that reduce the response time for qualified responders to reach the location of one or more scenarios in the risk portfolio.
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Hazardous Materials Route Restrictions Where allowed by law and subject to federal preemption authority, jurisdictions can perform route risk assessments for transportation of hazmat. For highways, the governor-designated state routing agency has the authority and responsibility to oversee any such restrictions, even if they are implemented at the local level.
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