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Incident Annexes – Introduction

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Purpose:

 

This section provides an overview of the annexes applicable to situations requiring specialized, incident-specific implementation of the Emergency Operations Plan (EOP).

 

Background:

 

The Incident Annexes address contingency or hazard situations requiring specialized application of the EOP. The annexes in the sections that follow address the following situations:

 

  • Biological Incident

  • Cyber Incident

  • Food and Agriculture Incident

  • Flooding Incident

  • Dam Safety Incident

  • Terrorism Incident /Law Enforcement and Investigations

 

Incident Annexes are organized alphabetically. Policies and procedures in the Catastrophic Incident Annex are overarching and applicable for all hazards. Similarly, the mechanisms in the Terrorism Incident Law Enforcement and Investigation Annex apply when terrorism is associated with any incident.

 

 

Incident Annex Contents

 

The annexes describe the policies, situation, concept of operations, and responsibilities pertinent to the type of incident in question.

 

Policies: Each annex explains unique authorities pertinent to that incident, the special actions or declarations that may result, and any special policies that may apply.

 

Situation: Each annex describes the incident situation as well as the planning assumptions and outlines the approach that will be used if key assumptions do not hold.

 

Concept of Operations: Each annex describes the concept of operations appropriate to the incident, unique aspects of the organizational approach, notification and activation processes, and specialized incident-related actions.

 

Each annex also details the coordination structures and positions of authority that are unique to the type of incident, the specialized response teams or unique resources needed, and other considerations.

 

Responsibilities: Each Incident Annex identifies the coordinating and cooperating agencies involved in an incident-specific response; in some cases, this responsibility is held jointly by two or more departments.

 

The overarching nature of functions described in these annexes frequently involves either the support to, or the cooperation of, all departments and agencies involved in incident management efforts. In some cases, actions detailed in the annex also incorporate various components of local agencies and other departments and agencies to ensure seamless integration of and transitions between preparedness, prevention, response, recovery, and mitigation activities.

 

The responsibilities of the Coordinating agency and cooperating agencies are identified below:

 

Coordinating Agency

 

Coordinating agencies described in the EOP annexes support the incident management mission by providing the leadership, expertise, and authorities to implement critical and specific aspects of the response. In some annexes, the responsibilities of the coordinating agency may be shared or delegated based on the nature or the location of the incident.

 

The coordinating agency is responsible for:

 

Orchestrating a coordinated delivery of those functions and procedures identified in the annex.

 

Providing staff for operations functions at fixed and field facilities.

 

Notifying and sub tasking cooperating agencies.

 

Managing tasks with cooperating agencies, as well as appropriate State agencies.

 

 

Working with appropriate private sector organizations to maximize use of available resources.

 

Supporting and keeping ESFs and other organizational elements informed of annex activities.

 

Planning for short-term and long-term support to incident management and recovery operations; and

 

Maintaining trained personnel to provide appropriate support.

Cooperating Agency

 

The coordinating agency will notify cooperating agencies when their assistance is needed. Cooperating agencies are responsible for:

 

Conducting operations, when requested by the coordinating agency, using their own subject-matter experts, capabilities, or resources.

 

Participating in planning for incident management and recovery operations and development of supporting operational plans, standard operating procedures, checklists, and other tools.

 

Furnishing available personnel, equipment, or other resources support as requested by the Coordinating Agency.

 

Participating in training and exercises aimed at continuous improvement of prevention, response and recovery capabilities; and

 

Nominating new technologies or procedures to improve performance.

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