The emergency response authority shall have the following duties and authority:
A. Provide twenty four (24) hour response capability to reported or suspected hazardous waste incidents.
B. Take initial emergency action necessary to minimize the effects of a hazardous material incident and exercise continuing supervisory authority over all further efforts to eliminate the threat of immediate and irreparable harm to the environment or the public health and safety.
C. Request assistance of personnel and equipment at the scene and immediate vicinity of a hazardous material incident from any City department including, but not limited to, the Fire Department, the Police Department, Public Works, Utilities and Risk Management, and generally direct, supervise and coordinate the activities of the persons and the use of the equipment.
D. Request assistance from the nearest available Fire Department or other public agency possessing the equipment, personnel or expertise which, in the judgment of the emergency response authority, may be necessary to handle a particular hazardous material incident when the equipment, personnel or expertise is not reasonably available on a timely basis from the various City departments.
E. Contract, as an emergency measure without the necessity of bids, for services and material from any person for the purpose of minimizing the effects of a hazardous material incident and for eliminating the threat of immediate and irreparable harm to the environment or to public health and safety if the service or material is not reasonably available on a timely basis from the City, or other fire departments or public agencies.
F. Notify the Disaster Emergency Service Agency, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Colorado State Department of Health, and any other Federal or State agency of hazardous material incidents as required by any Federal or State law or regulation. The emergency response authority may request the disaster emergency service agency to assist in making the required notifications and for any other appropriate assistance. (Ord. 80-430; Ord. 87-27; Ord. 01-42)