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e e (a) Adequate water supply (b) Emergency response organization (c) Written emergency plan (d) Adequate communications, equipment and procedure (e) Any special protective equipment or chemicals 2.3 Conditions of Membershio. It is a basic premise of the organization that it can fulfill its purpose only if the following minimum and basic conditions of membership are met by the separate members: (a) Each member agrees to maintain resources in the form of emergency personnel and equipment sufficient to control fires or emergencies of the type and magnitude reasonable to anticipate occurring at the member's facility. For prospectiye members, t~e prospective member must have resources in the form of emergency personnel and equipment sufficient to control fire or emergencies of the type and magnitude which have occurred in' facilities similar to that of the prospective member in the preceding 5 years. Minimum standards for specific types of facilities are determined as follows: (i) Storage facilities with tankage of flammable or combustible materials must be capable of providing 25% of the resources to manage the ". extinguisr 1lent of the single largest atmospheric or low pressure storage tank. NFPA 11, Standard for Low Expansion Foam and Combined Agent Systems, latest edition, will be' utilized for resource determination. (ii) Process facilities must be capable of providing resources adequate to manage the extinguishment of a single source process fire or event that is characteristic of that unit. Resources must include water supply equipment, water or agent delivery methods, systems or a combination thereof and an emergency response team. 4123/97 2