North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 14B - Public Safety › Chapter 03 - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT › Section .0500 - NORTH CAROLINA HAZARDOUS MATERIAL REGIONAL RESPONSE PROGRAM › Section 03 .0502 - ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
As used in this section, the following abbreviations and
				  terms mean:
(1) "Activation" means the
				status of a program resource placed at the direction, control, and funding of
				NCEM as part of the NC RRT Program.
(2) "All-hazards Disaster Response Model"
				means a response methodology where program resources provide all capability to
				respond to any threat or hazard that is impacting the state or is forecasted to
				impact the State as determined by the NCEM Director.
(3) "Authority Having Jurisdiction" (AHJ)
				means those local, State, tribal or federal entities having a duty to act over
				a specific aspect of hazardous materials in a specific geographic
				area.
(4) "County to County Mutual
				Aid" means public safety resource sharing under the conditions of the NC
				Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement or another similar agreement between political
				subdivisions.
(5) "Federal
				Emergency Management Agency" (FEMA) is an agency of the United States
				Department of Homeland Security with the responsibility to coordinate the
				federal response to a Presidentially-declared disaster that has occurred in the
				United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and State
				authorities.
(6) "FEMA Public
				Assistance Program" means a federal reimbursement grant program that provides
				federal funding to help communities respond to and recover from
				disasters.
(7) "Functionally
				equivalent" means an item or group of items that can be used in the same basic
				manner as another item or items to perform a task to the same
				standard.
(8) "Incident Commander"
				(IC) means the individual responsible for all incident activities, including
				the development of strategies and tactics and the ordering and release of
				resources. The IC has overall authority and responsibility for conducting
				incident operations and is responsible for the management of all incident
				operations at the incident site.
(9) "Local Emergency Management Coordinator"
				(LEMC) means the County Emergency Management Coordinator as defined in
				G.S.
				166A-19.15 who is responsible for all local
				disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities in a specific
				geographic area. county.
(10)
				"North Carolina Hazardous Materials Regional Response Team Technical Advisory
				Committee" (NC RRT TAC) means an advisory committee established in Article 2 of
				Chapter 166A of the North Carolina General Statutes to advise the Secretary of
				the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and the North Carolina Division
				of Emergency Management on the management of hazardous materials
				emergencies.
(11) "North Carolina
				Division of Emergency Management" (NCEM) means a division of the North Carolina
				Department of Public Safety established in
				G.S.
				143B-1000 with the responsibility to
				coordinate the mitigation, planning, preparedness, response, and recovery to a
				disaster or emergency that has or is forecasted to occur in the State as
				determined by the NCEM Director.
(12) "North Carolina Emergency Management
				Operations Chief" (NCEM OSC) means the Assistant Director of Operations for the
				North Carolina Division of Emergency Management.
(13) "North Carolina Emergency Management
				Director" (NCEM Director) means the Director of the North Carolina Division of
				Emergency Management.
(14)
				"National Incident Management System" (NIMS) means a federal policy that
				provides a systematic, proactive approach guiding government agencies at all
				levels, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to work to
				prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of
				incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity, to reduce the
				loss of life or property and harm to the environment.
(15) "On-duty" means when a person is
				functioning, paid or unpaid, as an agent of their Sponsoring Agency or of the
				NC Division of Emergency Management as part of the NC RRT Program.
(16) "Program agreements" means contracts,
				memoranda of agreements, or memoranda of understanding between NCEM and
				regional response teams for the purposes of establishing and maintaining the NC
				RRT Program.
(17) "Program costs"
				means training, equipment, personnel, or administrative expenses incurred by a
				Sponsoring Agency during activities of the NC RRT Program.
(18) "Program personnel" means human
				resources from a regional response team with an active program agreement with
				the Division of Emergency Management for hazardous materials response or human
				resources employed on a full-time or part-time basis by the Division of
				Emergency Management with a responsibility for hazardous materials
				response.
(19) "Program resource"
				means personnel or equipment from a regional response team that is
				participating in the NC RRT Program with an active program agreement with the
				North Carolina Division of Emergency Management for hazardous materials
				response.
(20) "Qualifying event"
				means an incident that system personnel have been charged, arrested, pleads no
				contest, pleads guilty, or is convicted of a crime that would require
				notification to the Sponsoring Agency.
(21) "Qualified personnel" means an
				individual that meets the training and medical monitoring requirements
				established by 29 CFR
				1910.120(a)(3) which are
				adopted and are incorporated by reference with subsequent changes or amendments
				pursuant to
				G.S.
				150B-21.6 and can be found at no cost at:
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.120
;
				National Fire Protection Association Standard 470 as it relates to Hazardous
				Materials Technicians which are adopted and are incorporated by reference with
				subsequent changes or amendments pursuant to
				G.S.
				150B-21.6 and can be found for ninety dollars
				($90.00) at:
https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-standards/list-of-codes-and-standards/detail?code=470
;
				and 29 CFR
				1910.134 which are adopted and are
				incorporated by reference with subsequent changes or amendments pursuant to
				G.S.
				150B-21.6 and can be found at no cost at:
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.134
;
(22) "Resource typing" means a document
				defining and categorizing, by capability, the program resources requested,
				deployed, and used in incidents.
(23) "Responsible Party" means the entity
				whose actions or inactions caused a hazardous materials incident as determined
				by the authority having jurisdiction requiring program resources to respond and
				incur costs.
(24) "Sensitive
				information" means any information, to include but not limited to audio
				recordings, images, and video recordings, obtained during an activation that
				has not been released to the public by the AHJ.
(25) "Sponsoring Agency" means a local or
				tribal unit of government or a corporation with an active response agreement
				with a local unit of government, that organizes and coordinates a regional
				response team in the NC RRT Program.
(26) "State Emergency Operations Plan" (SEOP)
				means a document maintained under the authority of
				G.S.
				166A-19.12(2) that details
				how the State of North Carolina will respond to a disaster or emergency
				requiring State assistance utilizing an established comprehensive, all-hazards
				approach All-Hazards Disaster Response Model.
(27) "State Mission Assignment" (State
				Mission) means a NCEM approved request for assistance to deploy program
				resources at the request of a local unit of government.