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Consolidated Requirements

organizations. Provisions shall also be established for

continuing effective communication among the response

organizations throughout an emergency.

4.4.6.1 Adherence to notification and reporting requirements

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shall be demonstrated in all emergency management

sec. 3

exercises.

4.4.6.2 Initial emergency notifications shall be made to

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workers, emergency response personnel, and

sec. 4.a

organizations, including DOE and NNSA elements

and other local, State, Tribal, and Federal

organizations.

4.4.6.3 Notify State and local officials and the DOE or NNSA

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Field and Headquarters Emergency Operations

sec. 4.a(1)(a)

Centers within 15 minutes and all other organizations

within 30 minutes of the declaration of an Alert, Site

Area Emergency, or General Emergency.

4.4.6.4 Notify the DOE or NNSA Field and Headquarters

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Emergency Operations Centers within 30 minutes of

sec. 4.a(1)(b)

the declaration of an other than hazardous material

Operational Emergency.

4.4.6.5 Notify local, State, and Tribal organizations within 30

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minutes or as established in mutual agreements for

sec. 4.a(1)(c)

declaration of an other than hazardous material

Operational Emergency.

4.4.6.6 Headquarters Watch Office staff in the Headquarters

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Emergency Operations Center and Headquarters

sec. 4.a(2);

Emergency Management Team personnel shall be

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responsible for the following:

sec. 4.a(2)(a);

Record incoming verbal notifications, receive

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sec. 4.a(2)(b)

emergency event information by other data

transmission means or mechanisms, and

disseminate such information to Cognizant

Secretarial Officer representatives and appropriate

Headquarters organizations of other Federal

agencies.

Facilitate communications among Headquarters

organizations, DOE and NNSA field

organizations, and contractor personnel.

4.4.6.7 Emergency status reports shall be forwarded to the

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next-higher Emergency Management Team on a

4.b

continuing basis until the emergency is terminated.