Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council

Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)

Staff Contact:

John Meyer
Principal Planner
4000 Gateway Centre Blvd.
Suite 100
Pinellas Park, Florida 33782
Phone: (727)570-5151 ext. 29 Fax: (727)570-5118

Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)

Fire Chief Scott Ehlers, Chairman

Jeff Tobergte, Vice-Chair

John Meyer , Coordinator

Announcements

Retired LEPC Coordinator Bill Lofgren Receives 2008 Thomas Yatabe Award

Next LEPC Meeting: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:30 a.m. at the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, 4000 Gateway Centre Blvd., Suite 100, Pinellas Park, FL 33782.

Click here to view/print out the recap of the February 25, 2009 meeting

About LEPC

The Tampa Bay Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC), District 8, is charged with facilitating regional hazardous materials emergency response and compliance with hazardous materials reporting laws.

Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), also known as the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA), requires public and private facilities that use, produce or store extremely hazardous substances or hazardous chemicals, to report their inventories on an annual basis.

The Tampa Bay Regional Council serves as the public access repository for the reports filed under Sections 311/312 of EPCRA in the District 8 LEPC area which includes Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, and Pinellas counties. This information is used to compile local and regional hazardous materials emergency response plans which are put into action in the event of a chemical emergency. The plans are updated regularly as more facilities come into compliance or as inventories change. Information under Sections 311/312 of EPCRA is also available to the public by calling Bill Lofgren, Tampa Bay LEPC Coordinator at (727) 570-5151, Ext. 33, bill@tbrpc.org

The Council and the District 8 LEPC continue to work closely with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), Sector St. Petersburg, which moved their command headquarters from Tampa in a 2005 Coast Guard reorganization. The LEPC cooperates with the Coast Guard in the area of spill contingency planning. As a result of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 mandates, each USCG Sector Command has organized Area Committees to look at pollution preparedness and response. TBRPC staff chairs the Preparedness Subcommittee for Sector St. Petersburg’s Area Committee and is responsible for this portion of the Area Contingency Plan, to include the all-inclusive hazardous materials spill prevention/mitigation/response planning.

Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone by calling (727) 570-5151 or in writing to 4000 Gateway Centre Blvd., Suite 100, Pinellas Park, Florida 33782. Copyright © 2007 Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council. All Rights Reserved.