For this Part, an emergency plan must include at least the following:
- (a)
- a
description of the actions to be taken by the persons who are responsible, or,
if the space licence were granted or transferred to the applicant, would be
responsible, for responding to an accident or incident involving a relevant
launch vehicle that is launched, or attempted to be launched, from the
relevant launch facility;
(b) a description of the actions to be taken by the persons who are
responsible, or, if the space licence were granted or transferred to the
applicant, would be responsible, for responding to any other kind of
emergency:
- (i)
- involving a relevant launch vehicle that is launched, or
attempted to be launched, from the launch facility; or
- (ii)
- occurring at or near the launch facility that interrupts, or might
interrupt, its operation or may endanger public health or public safety or
cause substantial damage to property; or
- (iii)
- occurring on the site of the launch facility during its construction
that may endanger public health or public safety or cause substantial damage
to property;
- (c)
- a list of the authorities or persons that are to be notified by the holder
or applicant in relation to the accident, incident or emergency;
- (d)
- a description of the arrangements for coordinating, with those authorities
or persons, any action to be taken in relation to the accident, incident or
emergency;
(e) the details of appropriate evacuation procedures for any kind of accident,
incident or emergency:
- (i)
- involving a relevant launch vehicle that is
launched, or attempted to be launched, from the relevant launch facility; or
- (ii)
- at or near the launch facility or on the site of the launch facility
during its construction;
- (f)
- the details of exercises to test the plan, including a description of the
arrangements for conducting the exercises annually and reporting to the
Minister the results of those exercises;
- (g)
- a description of the arrangements for reviewing the effectiveness of
responses in emergencies or exercises, including reporting to the Minister the
results of any review;
- (h)
- a description of the procedures that, if an accident happens, are to be
followed by the holder or applicant for locating the launch vehicle concerned
or its wreckage and, in accordance with any necessary permission of the
Minister or Investigator under the Act, for recovering and removing the launch
vehicle or its wreckage;
- (i)
- a description of the arrangements for providing the equipment and
facilities necessary for the purpose of responding to and dealing with the
accident;
(j) a description of the arrangements to ensure that the holder or applicant
meets the holder's or applicant's obligations under any Australian law:
- (i)
- in the event of an accident or incident or any other emergency of a kind
referred to in this regulation; or
- (ii)
- in conducting exercises to test the plan and reporting in relation to
those exercises.