Background

1. FEMA Catastrophic Disaster Readiness Program2006New Madrid Seismic Zone(NMSZ)& State of FloridaEMIDHS/FEMA Response DivisionJune 8, 2006

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

10. 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

11. 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.

12. HAZUS • HAZUS allows you to: • IDENTIFY • ASSESS • ESTIMATE • DECIDE • PRIORITIZE

13. Nationwide Databases* • Demographics • Building Stock • Essential Facilities • Transportation • Utilities • High Potential Loss Facilities * Utilization Mid America Earthquake Center (MAEC) for site specific modeling and analysis

14. 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+

15. Overview of Geographic Area

16. FA 1 FA 1 FA 1 FA 2 FA 2 FA 2 FA 3 FA 3 FA 3 Final Integration Workshop St. Louis Workshop Memphis Workshop Cairo, IL, Charleston, MO, Wickliff, KY Workshop

17. 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 Potential Functional Areas

18. Hazard Event Physical Damage Social and Economic Consequences Long Term Short Term Building Stock Housing Relocation, Displacement Emergency Shelter Direct Damage, Price Increases, Business Interruption, Supply Disruption Economic Loss Fiscal Impacts, Business Failure, Job Loss, Reconstruction Transportation Systems Casualties, Fatalities, Health Care Disruption Infrastructure Systems Health Social Vulnerability Psychological Distress, Chronic Injury Social Disruption Critical Facilities Emergency Supplies Family Separation Family Stress, Neighborhood Disruption

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Questions?