Section 605.100.1. Mission.


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  • The Iowa emergency response commission (IERC) was created to implement the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

    The governor appoints one member each to represent the departments of agriculture and land stewardship, workforce development, homeland security and emergency management, justice, natural resources, public defense, public health, public safety, and transportation, state fire service and emergency response council, local emergency planning committee, hazardous materials task force, and the office of the governor, and three members from private industry.

    The IERC shall enter into agreements with the departments of workforce development, natural resources and homeland security and emergency management to carry out the duties allocated to those departments under Iowa Code chapter 30.

    This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code chapter 30.

    [ARC 2383C, IAB 2/3/16, effective 3/9/16]