(1) It is the intent of the general assembly that the director, with the advice of the subcommittee, promulgate rules pursuant to this part 15 that encourage:
Consistency between information requested by the director and the purposes of implementation of the federal act; and
Cost-effective reporting and the consideration of reasonable reporting threshold levels and reporting formats.
(2) Consistent with the powers and duties imposed upon him or her by the federal act, or granted to it in this part 15, the director has the following powers and duties:
To adopt all reasonable rules necessary for the administration of this part 15. Suchrules shall be promulgated in accordance with article 4 of this title.
To establish a uniform system for reporting and management of information requiredby the federal act;
To create and adopt such forms as are necessary for the uniform reporting and management of information required by the federal act, including:
A standardized tier II reporting form to replace the tier II form which is requiredunder the federal act, and which shall be accepted by local emergency planning committees in reporting the information contained therein; and
A standardized facility contingency plan form as an addendum to the form requiredin subparagraph (I) of this paragraph (c), which shall be used for the collection of emergency planning information from facilities by local emergency planning committees. This form shall include space in which local emergency planning committees may require additional information of local concern.
(d) To coordinate his or her activities with those of the Colorado state patrol relating to the transportation of hazardous materials.
Source: L. 2012: Entire part RC&RE with relocations, (HB 12-1283), ch. 240, p. 1116, § 17, effective July 1. L. 2014: IP(1), (1)(a), IP(2), and (2)(d) amended, (HB 14-1004), ch. 11, p. 103, § 5, effective February 27.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 24-32-2603.5 as it existed prior to 2012.