# Presentation: 660284

## FEMA Catastrophic Disaster Readiness Program2006New Madrid Seismic Zone(NMSZ)& State of FloridaEMIDHS/FEMA Response DivisionJune 8, 2006

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## Background

**$20 million** provided in FY 2006 appropriation for Catastrophic Disaster Planning with specific reference to evacuation planning
**$11.6 million** to be managed by Response Division to address: debris; schools; search & rescue; temporary medical care; access control & reentry; commodity pre-staging and distribution; donations & volunteer management; external affairs; hazardous materials; evacuation; transportation; emergency sheltering; and identified Region, State, local & tribal concerns; and critical infrastructure
**$8.4 million** to be managed by Recovery Division to address transition to host communities and long-term issues

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## Approach and Assumptions 

- Readiness efforts will focus on events that exemplify no-notice (major earthquake/terrorism)
- Planning venues will present a wide range of issues
**Partnership **with many players (F/S/L, Tribal Nations, CUSEC, NORTHCOM, USACE, USCG, EPA, SANDIA, MAEC,   ICDRM, etc.)
- A cooperative multi-federal agency, multi-region, multi-state and local government, private sector and tribal nation effort that includes critical infrastructure

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## Issue 

- Hurricane Katrina/Rita demonstrated a lack of guidance and procedures to effectively support mass-relocation and hosting efforts
- Analyze capability to receive and manage evacuees
- Develop program guidance for transition from sheltering to temporary housing in host cities
- Develop several host city plans for evacuees
- Develop a generic template for host city plans for evacuees
- Interviews with key officials from cities/States that hosted Katrina/Rita evacuees ongoing

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## Contract Support

**Structure**
- Contract will be managed by Response in coordination with Recovery - Contract award by _June 2006_
- Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA)
- Individual Task Orders (TO)
- Interagency and Cooperative Agreements
- Convene Steering Committee** July 2006**

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## FEMA Regions & States Directly Involved NMSZ

- Region IV – Atlanta, GA
- Alabama		Kentucky
- Mississippi	Tennessee
- Region V – Chicago, IL
- Illinois		Indiana
- Region VI – Denton, TX
- Arkansas
- Region VII – Kansas City, MO
- Missouri

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## Uniqueness of NMSZ

- Regions, States and CUSEC briefed on Catastrophic Planning Initiative December, 2005
- Initiated RISC briefings February 2006
- Large Footprint: 8 States, 4 FEMA Regions
- Extreme weather conditions that could exacerbate population movements
- Variety of potential economic impacts
- Business, industry and government (BIG) partnership
- _Critical infrastructure_
- Coordination with local tribes
- Requirement for mass evacuation and hosting plans of evacuees for a no-notice event
- Historical precedent for catastrophic event

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## Slide 8

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## Slide 9

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## Readiness Goals for NMSZ

- Review develop/revise existing plans
- Address deficiencies
- Develop DHS/FEMA Emergency Operations Plan Procedures to deal with catastrophic events under the NRP
- Develop coordinated guidelines for State and
-      local governments to help them develop mass
-      evacuation and hosting plans
- Provide training in catastrophic disaster readiness
- Create a catastrophic disaster readiness toolbox
- Create an environment for _continued planning_
- Develop relationships and contacts
- Coordinated internal DHS and multi-agency effort
- Exercise

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## NMSZ Planning Process

- Collect previous plans, studies, and reports
- Secure location for workshops
- Define response plans format
- Develop and produce support materials
- Develop scenarios using HAZUS and other scientific input
- Conduct workshops
- Post-workshop editing and production
- Distribution of materials
- Utilization of  HSIN web portal for information sharing and work product tracking, guidance development, etc.

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## HAZUS allows you to:
IDENTIFY 
ASSESS 
ESTIMATE 
DECIDE
PRIORITIZE  

**IDENTIFY **
**ASSESS **
**ESTIMATE **
**DECIDE**
**PRIORITIZE****  **

**HAZUS**

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## Demographics 
Building Stock 
Essential Facilities 
Transportation 
Utilities
High Potential Loss Facilities

* Utilization Mid America Earthquake Center (MAEC) for site specific modeling and analysis

**Building Stock **
**Essential Facilities **
**Transportation **
**Utilities**
**High Potential Loss Facilities**
- * Utilization Mid America Earthquake Center (MAEC) for site specific modeling and analysis

**Nationwide Databases***

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## NMSZ Workshop Plan

**NMSZ Workshop Plan**

**Three levels of workshops:**
- Initial functional area-specific workshops
- City/geographic area workshops
**Urban**
- St. Louis, MO
- Memphis, TN
**Rural**
- Cairo, IL
- Charleston, MO
- Wickliff, KY
- Final integration workshop+

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## Overview of Geographic Area

**Overview of Geographic Area**

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## Final Integration Workshop

**St. Louis Workshop**

**Cairo, IL, Charleston, MO, **
**Wickliff, KY  Workshop**

**Memphis Workshop**

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## Potential Functional Areas

- Command & Control
- Saving Lives
- Search & Rescue
- Temporary Medical Care
- Evacuation including Medical/Special Needs
- Transportation/staging & distribution of critical resources
- Sheltering
- Hosting
- Schools

- Access control & reentry
- Power, water & ice distribution
- Volunteer & donations management
- Hazardous materials
- External affairs
- BIG partnership
- Private sector coordination
- Critical infrastructure

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## Physical Damage

- Critical Facilities

- Transportation Systems

- Infrastructure Systems

- Building Stock

- Social and Economic Consequences

- Housing

- Economic
- Loss

- Health

**Emergency Shelter**

**Direct Damage,    Price Increases, Business Interruption,   Supply Disruption**

**Casualties, Fatalities,       Health Care Disruption**

- Social Disruption

**Emergency **
**Supplies**
**Family Separation**

- Hazard Event

- Social Vulnerability

- Short Term

- Long Term

**Relocation,  Displacement**

**Fiscal Impacts, Business Failure,**
**Job Loss, Reconstruction**

**Psychological Distress, Chronic Injury**

**Family Stress, Neighborhood Disruption**

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## Schedule for NMSZ

**FY06 – Q1:** Initial coordination with FEMA Regions, etc.
**FY06 – Q2:** Develop steering committee & objectives with stakeholders; initiate conduct of historical research
**FY06 – Q3:** Establish workshop design team using RISC’s; develop scenarios and objectives
**FY06 – Q4:** Conduct pre-workshop meetings
**FY06 – Q4:** Conduct regional workshops at city level
- Conduct special hosting planning workshops with select cities
- Draft national evacuation guidance
**FY07 – Q1 & Q2:** Conduct Final Integration Workshop
**FY07 – Q3** SONS 07 Exercise
**FY08 – Q4** Follow up NMSZ Command & Control Exercise
**Results:  First draft of integrated NMSZ functional area   ****	****    plans FY 2007 or sooner **

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## CUSEC

**Identify studies, research, background, etc.**
**Facilitate development of workshop design**
**Help ensure coordination**
**Support contractors and Regional Planning**
**Identify and recruit stakeholders and partners**

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## HSIN Support to NMSZ 

**Portal**
**Information Sharing**
**FEMA HQ**
**FEMA Regions**
**Other Federal agencies**
**States**
**Locals**
**Keep track of work products**
**Posting information and work products**

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## HSIN Support to NMSZ (Continued)

**Information sharing protocol development**
**Ability to use Passwords to secure information exchange**
**Over 2,500+ new users anticipated to participate (HQ, FEMA Regions, DHS participants, FEMA Regional Interagency Steering Committee (RISC), States, Locals, and members of the Critical Infrastructure)**
**System for establishing additional HSIN users for CAT Readiness**

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## NMSZ Implementation Strategy

**Kick off meeting Region IV, V, VI and VII RISC Meetings, CUSEC and SONS 07 Initial Planning Conference**
**Orientation**
**Schedule training for HSIN**
**Utilization of HSIN in support of CAT Planning initiative**
**Regional workshop meetings with States on CAT Planning initiative**
**Orientation**
**Schedule HSIN training**
**Utilization of HSIN in support of CAT Planning initiative**

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## Products

**NMSZ ****integrated NMSZ functional area  plans **
**A national policy and guidance for the transition from Stafford Act section 403 to 408**
**Host city plans for receiving evacuees**
**Generic template for host city plans**

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## Florida

**June 7, 2006 initiated Catastrophic Disaster Planning Workshop with the State of Florda**** **
**Initial effort concentrated on Palm Beach County and Lake Okeechobee**
**Statewide planning effort based upon a Category 5 hurricane making landfall on Miami**

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## Questions?

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## Slide 27

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