The purpose of the Massachusetts Large Volume/High Concentration (LV/HC) Ethanol Incident Response Plan is to promote situational awareness and outline the operational activities surrounding a state response to large scale emergency involving ethanol, such as the response to an incident involving railroad tank cars or a barge containing ethanol, within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
This plan establishes a coordinated framework to support incident/unified commanders responding to large volume and/or high concentration ethanol rail or barge incident occurring within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.