A. The Ogle County emergency response organizations and the ranking emergency response organization personnel or law enforcement officer first on the scene shall have authority to respond to any release or threatened release of hazardous materials within the county or affection of the public water supply, wells or sewage treatment works located within the county. This authority includes, but is not limited to, remedial action and removal.
B. The ranking emergency response organization personnel or law enforcement officer first on the scene shall have primary authority as the incident commander to respond to any release or threatened release of hazardous materials as described above. The ranking emergency response organization personnel or law enforcement officer first on the scene shall report any release or threatened release of hazardous materials to all appropriate federal, state, and local public health, safety and emergency agencies as soon as possible following any substantial release of hazardous materials. The ranking emergency response organization personnel or law enforcement officer first on the scene shall relinquish his response authority at such time, if any, as the federal, state 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 ranking emergency response organization personnel or law enforcement officer first on the scene during such time as response authority is vested in him, shall be authorized to request county personnel and equipment through the county emergency operations center, if activated, or the emergency management agency to take such remedial or removal action as he may deem necessary or appropriate to respond to the release or threatened release of hazardous material including the use of material and in accordance with any mutual aid box alarm system (MABAS) agreements.
D. All responding personnel shall cooperate with and operate under the direction of the ranking emergency response organization personnel or law enforcement officer first on the scene or other person then exercising response authority under this division 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, 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 division shall coordinate and/or cooperate with other federal, state, or local public health, safety or emergency agencies involved in response to the release or threatened release of hazardous materials. (Ord., 3-20-2007)