Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan Review Unit

• Part 1 - Local Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan Compliance CriteriaMS Word Version

• Part 2 - Emergency Management Capability Assessment Checklist  MS Word Version

• Part 3 - Emergency Support Functions Assistance Guide  MS Word Version

• Rule 9G-6 REVIEW OF LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANS

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

These planning criteria are arranged to provide guidance for the development, review and capability demonstration of Local Comprehensive Emergency Management Plans (CEMPs). It is designed to parallel the Federal Response Plan with twelve emergency support functions and the state Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan with seventeen emergency support functions mirroring the Federal twelve. Local Comprehensive Emergency Management Plans are not required to mirror the State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, but should identify the organizational structure and resources available to the jurisdiction to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate identified hazards.

The criteria are divided into three major parts:

Part One has three sections that include the Basic Plan, recovery operations (Annex I), and mitigation activities (Annex II). The Basic Plan includes the purpose, scope and methodology of the plan, direction and control, organizational structure, alert notification and warning, four phases of emergency management (preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation) actions, responsibilities, authorities and references. Recovery operations (Annex I) outline the steps taken during the recovery efforts following an emergency or a disaster and includes the transition from response activities to recovery operations, initial damage assessment, emergency housing, debris management, community relations, unmet needs committee, location of Disaster Recovery Centers, Disaster Field Offices, Rapid Impact Assessment Teams, and Rapid Response Teams. Annex II, outlines the mitigation activities before, during, and immediately following a disaster. Included in this section are discussions on such topics as "Specific-disaster Hazard Mitigation Activities," "Pre disaster Hazard Mitigation Activities," and the "National Flood Insurance Program."

Part Two, Emergency Management Capability Assessment will give counties the opportunity to demonstrate activities and/or present information outlined in the County’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, standard operating procedures and other support documents/activities that are involved in the emergency management program. Counties will have an option as to the amount of information they choose to incorporate in their Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Instead of documenting every step or action involved with the county’s emergency management program, counties will demonstrate their capability to perform the activities. The emphasis will be placed on the performance of an activity or capability, as opposed to written descriptions that are unexecutable. This will not negate the fact that documentation is needed, however, the immense details do not need to be included in the County’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Counties are not limited to placing information requested in the Capability Assessment only in this section. Counties have the option to include/address any information requested under for the Capability Assessment, in the Basic Plan.

Additional assistance for the development of the County’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan is available in the Emergency Support Function Assistance Guide. The document outlines specific tasks or functions that may be carried out before, during and after a disaster. The guide describes, in detail, the tasks or functions a county should address as apart of the County Emergency Management Plan. The functions listed mirror the emergency support functions of the State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan and can also be applied to specific functions within the Incident Command System (ICS) or an Incident Management System (IMS). County officials can refer to the guide for additional information to consider as they develop their respective Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan and/or to implement their Capability Assessment. Counties now have an option of deciding how much information will be sufficient to include in the plan for accomplishing the activities and respective duties of the emergency support functions.