A. The director of public works, or his designee, shall be and is hereby authorized to respond to any release or threatened release of hazardous materials within the village or affecting the village in any way, including, but not limited to, the village's public water supply, wells, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, and/or sewage treatment works located within or serving the village, and he shall enlist the aid of the applicable fire protection district relative thereto. This authority includes, but is not limited to, taking any necessary or appropriate remedial action and/or removal.
B. The director of public works, or his designee, shall be and is hereby authorized to respond to any release or threatened release of hazardous materials as described above. The director of public works, or his designee, shall report any release or threatened release of hazardous materials to all appropriate federal, state, county and local public health, safety and emergency agencies within twenty four (24) hours of any substantial release of hazardous materials. The director of public works, or his designee, shall relinquish his response authority at such time, if any, as the federal, state, county, or local public health, safety or emergency agency having primary jurisdiction over the release or threatened release has assumed responsibility for response to the release or threatened release.
C. The director of public works, or his designee, during such time as response authority pursuant to this chapter is vested in him, shall be and is hereby authorized to utilize the necessary village personnel and equipment for such response, and he may, in his sole discretion, take such remedial or removal action as he may deem necessary or appropriate to respond to the release or threatened release of hazardous material.
D. All responding personnel shall cooperate with and operate under the direction of the director of public works, or his designee, until such time as the person exercising such response authority has determined that the response is complete or responsibility for response is assumed by the federal, state, county, or local public health, safety or emergency agency having primary jurisdiction over the release or threatened release.
E. The person exercising response authority under this chapter shall coordinate and/or cooperate with other federal, state, county, or local public health, safety or emergency agencies involved in response to the release or threatened release of hazardous materials. (Ord. 2009-01-03, 1-14-2009)