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31. Emergency Response: The implementation of planning and preparedness during an emergency involving

the effective decisions, actions, and application of resources that must be accomplished to mitigate

consequences and recover from an emergency.

32. Emergency Response Organization (ERO): The designated group(s) of personnel responsible for coping

with and minimizing or mitigating the effects of any emergency.

33. Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPGs): A hazardous material personnel exposure level or

range which, when exceeded by a short term or acute exposure, will cause irreversible or other serious health

effects in humans. The ERPGs are approved by a committee of the American Industrial Hygiene

Association, and are presented in the American Industrial Hygiene Association's Emergency Response

Planning Guidelines Series by AIHA Emergency Response Planning Committee, published by the American

Industrial Hygiene Association, Akron Ohio, 1988 - present.

34. Energy Emergency: A category of emergencies involving a condition or a potential condition affecting the

supply of energy or the energy infrastructure with significant potential impact on the national economy or

security, defense preparedness, and/or health and safety.

35. Energy Executive Committee: A committee, established by SEN-19-90, consisting of Program Senior

Officials convened to improve executive oversight and coordination of long-term, crosscutting issues by

recommending broad policies for DOE. (Also known as the Secretary's Executive Committee.)

36. Event: Any real-time occurrence or significant deviation from planned or expected behavior that could

endanger or adversely affect people, property, or the environment.

37. Executive Team: A component of the Headquarters Emergency Management Team. The HQ Executive

Team provides strategic direction to the emergency response and evaluates the impacts of the emergency

on the DOE complex.

38. Exercise: A scheduled and planned large-scale activity that tests the integrated capability and most aspects

of the emergency management program associated with a particular DOE facility.

39. Extremely Hazardous Substance: Per EPCRA (SARA Title III), a substance listed by the EPA as

extremely hazardous in 40 CFR Part 355, Appendices A and B. Possession of an extremely hazardous

substance in an amount over the threshold listed in the regulations will subject a facility to emergency

planning requirements under EPCRA (SARA Title III).

40. Facility: Any equipment, structure, system, process, or activity that fulfills a specific purpose. Examples

include accelerators, storage areas, fusion research devices, nuclear reactors, production or processing

plants, coal conversion plants, magnetohydrodynamics experiments, windmills, radioactive waste disposal

systems and burial grounds, testing laboratories, research laboratories, transportation activities, and

accommodations for analytical examinations of irradiated and unirradiated components.

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