Local Emergency Planning Committee - "LEPC"

The Macomb County Local Emergency Planning Committee

Title III of the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (SARA) is a federally mandated program to ensure a coordinated planning and response effort between industry and the emergency response and planning entities within Macomb County and local jurisdictions. The Community Right-to-Know provisions of this Act helps to increase the public’s knowledge and access to information on chemicals at individual facilities, their uses, and releases into the environment. Macomb County and the local communities, working with these identified facilities, can use the information to improve chemical safety, protect public health and the environment, along with developing response protocols in the event of a hazardous material release into the air, land and/or water.

SARA Title III is a federal act that is implemented in Michigan under an Executive Order from the Governor. In accordance with the act, the Governor has established the Michigan Citizen-Community Emergency Response Coordinating Council (MC-CERCC). By law, the MC-CERCC must then designate emergency planning districts for the state. Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC's) have been established within each county and several local municipalities.

SARA Title III requires that the following groups be represented on the LEPC:

The Macomb County Local Emergency Planning Committee was established to:  Develop local emergency response plans to serve as a supplement to the County's Emergency Action Guidelines;  Provide, under the Community-Right-To-Know requirements, the forum for the public to access local hazardous chemical information; Manage the collection, storage and dissemination of data required to implement these tasks. 

There are currently more than 360 hazardous substance facilities that have been identified in Macomb County that have one or more of the 1,450+ regulated hazardous substances at their facility.  Of these, 114 facilities have been categorized as Extremely Hazardous Substance (EHS) facilities.  In Macomb County, the most commonly found EHS chemical was Sulfuric Acid. 

There are seven Sub-Committees that the Macomb LEPC has created to address the needs of the LEPC and its’ members. These are the Executive, Hazard/Vulnerability/Risk, Medical, Education/Training, Macomb Citizen Corps Council, Hazard Mitigation Planning and the Red Run Drain Inter-County Sub-Committees. These Sub-Committees prepare emergency plans, establish protocols and prepare training programs for the many facilities and public groups within Macomb County.

The Macomb County LEPC has established a set of By-Laws and have elected Officers to govern and maintain the Macomb County LEPC.  Meetings are held on a quarterly schedule starting in February and are conducted in compliance with the Open Meetings Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

LEPC Meetings are conducted at the MISD Building located at 44001 Garfield, Clinton Township.  The meetings will be held in the Mackinaw Room located on the second floor, through the Library, at the north end of the building and will start at 8:30 AM. 

The 2012 meeting schedule for the Macomb County LEPC is:  February 7th, May 1st, August 7th* and December 4th*.

*The August and December meetings will be held in the Offices of Emergency Management located at 21930 Dunham, Mt. Clemens.  The August meeting is our annual picnic which will begin at 11:30 and a donation of ten dollars pre-paid, will be required for attendance and the December meeting will be our annual Salvation Army Toy Drive.  All attendees are asked to bring a new, unwrapped toy for the Salvation Army.  All toys go to the Salvation Army's Macomb Center where parents in need can come in and pick out toys for their children for the Christmas holiday. This will be the fifth year the Macomb LEPC has collected toys for the Salvation Army. In the past four years the LEPC has collected close to 1,000 toys.

Prior notification of a change of location will be emailed to all LEPC Members and will be posted on this site.

For more information regarding the Macomb County LEPC, or to request an application form to join our committee, please contact Mr. Peter Locke at 586-469-5270 or email him at: peter.locke@macombcountymi.gov

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