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<br />-75- <br />MR. MASSEY: Sure. Okay. I'll continue if there're no further questions <br />on that subject. I believe the other issue that was raised in the <br />presentation this morning was a question of the Emergency Response Plan. I <br />have just a couple of responses to that. One, the Emergency Response Plan as <br />developed by Battle Mountain and submitted -- I believe there is testimony by <br />Steve that indicates that that is consistent with tt~e requirements that are <br />ordinarily requested by this -- by this Board. It is intended tro be -- it is <br />frankly intended to be manual for the people on the site to identify the <br />nature of their first response, so there's no confusion. It's nrot intended to <br />be -- this is the full measure of everything we're going to do under every <br />particular site-specific circumstance. You can't write a book like that right <br />now. All you can write is those initial responses, the initial reporting <br />obligations that will take care of that immediate situation. Earch -- if there <br />were an emergency, we don't think there will be one, obviously, tout if there <br />were an emergency, that plan is designed to get that immediate response where <br />it needs to be and get the immediate people who are required to tie notified, <br />under statute and regulations -- get them notified, and -- and iit's basically <br />a first order response. That's not the end of the -- necessarily the end of <br />the response, but an emergency response plan is intended to be just that and <br />nothing more. Not afull-fledged plan for the community, the county, that <br />sort of thing. That's not -- that's not required by this Board and never has <br />been and it's really not appropriate in the context of this permit. That's <br />not to say that Battle Mountain won't cooperate in that regard in the future, <br />and we certainly intend to. <br />The second point that was raised is the question of our obligations under SARA <br />Title III. Battle Mountain will comply with SARA Title III. Under section <br />302 of SARA, the Company has 60 days from the date that an extremely hazardous <br />substance becomes present at its facility to notify local emergency planning <br />control authority, and we intend to do that. We're along ways from that -- <br />from that trigger event. It also requires -- Section 303-D1 requires us to <br />identify a facility emergency coordinator within 30 days of that same <br /> <br />