Plans

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All documents below are PDFs unless specifically noted.

Washington State Comprehensive Emergency

Management Plan

• Washington Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) (2024 - updated to reflect new TAG)
• ESF1 Transportation (2024)
• ESF 2 Communications (2021)
  • Appendix 1: Priority Channels for Mutual Aid, Interoperability and Direction and Control (2015)
• ESF 3 Public Works and Engineering  (2009)
• ESF 4 Firefighting (2011)
  • Appendix 1: Deployment of Local Fire Resources Using Interstate or International Mutual Aid (2018) 
• ESF 5 Emergency Management (2017)
  • Appendix 1: Re-Entry Framework (2018)
    • Attachment 1: Business Re-Entry (BRE) Registration (2021)
• ESF 6 Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Temporary Housing and Human Services (2025)
• ESF 7 Logistics Management & Resource Support (2018)
  • Distribution Management Plan (2024)
  • Appendix 1:  Reception and Integration (2018)
  • Appendix 2: State Staging Areas (2013)
  • Appendix 3: Movement Control (2013)
• ESF 8 Public Health, Medical and Mortuary Services (2015)
  • Appendix 1: Emergency Medical Resources (2018)
  • Appendix 2: Medical Surge (2017)
  • Appendix 3: Fatality Management Incident Support (2017)
  • Appendix 4: Pandemic Response (2016)
  • Appendix 5: Air Quality Response (2016)
    • Attachment 1 Wildfire Response: Severe Smoke Episodes (2020)
• ESF 9 Search and Rescue (2021)
• ESF 10 Hazardous Materials (2009)
• ESF 11 Agriculture and Natural Resources (2017)
  • Appendix 2: State Animal Response Plan (2017)
  • Appendix 3: State Plant Health Response Plan (2017)
  • Appendix 4: State Food and Feed Emergency Response Plan (2017)
  • Appendix 5: Protection of Natural, Cultural and Historic Resources (2018)
• ESF 12 Energy (2020)
• ESF 13 Public Safety, Law Enforcement & Security (2019)
• ESF 14 Long Term Recovery (2023)
  • Appendix 1: Requesting Presidential Emergency or Major Disaster Declaration (2016)
  • Appendix 2: Joint Field Office (2016)
• ESF 15 External Affairs (2021)
  • Appendix 1: Communicating with Limited English Proficient Populations (2016)
    • LEP Communication Planning Framework (2018)
      
    • LEP Appendix Planning Template (2023, Word document)
• ESF 20 Defense Support to Civil Authorities (2019)
  

Catastrophic Incident Planning

• Statewide Catastrophic Planning Team (SCIPT)
• Catastrophic Incident Planning Framework – Version 1 (2017)
  
• Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)
• The Regional Resiliency Assessment Program for Washington State Transportation (2019)
• Washington State Airports Seismic Resilience Project (2021)

Catastrophic Incident Annex (CIA) 

• CIA Base Plan
  
  • CIA Tab A: Critical Transportation
  • CIA Tab B: Mass Care Services
    
  • CIA Tab C: Infrastructure Systems
    
  • CIA Tab D: Public Health, Healthcare, and EMS (Not Available Yet)
    
  • CIA Tab E: Fatality Management (Not Available Yet)
    
  • CIA Tab F: Operational Coordination
    
  • CIA Tab G: Situational Assessment
    
  • CIA Tab H: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
    
  • CIA Tab I: Operational Communications
    
• CIA Appendix 1: Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ)
• CIA Appendix 2: Executive Summary
  
  • CIA Appendix 2-1: UCG and Policy Group Checklist
    
  • CIA Appendix 2-2: Community Lifelines Senior Leadership Brief (Power Point)
  • CIA Appendix 2-3: Essential Elements of Information (EEI) (Excel)
    
  • CIA Appendix 2-4: ESF and SEOC Checklist (Excel)
    

Hazard Specific Plans

• Cyber Attack: 
  • Cyber Incident Response Plan (2024)
  • Cybersecurity Prevention Framework (2024)
• Fire: Washington State Fire Marshal Web link to Fire Services Resource Mobilization Plan  
• Radiological: Washington State Fixed Nuclear Facility Plan (2024)
  
• Hazardous Materials
  • Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Plan Template (2011) (Word) 
  • ESF 10 - Oil and Hazardous Materials Response Template (2011) (Word) 
  • Northwest Area Contingency Plan  (2011)

FEMA Region 10 Plans

• FEMA Region 10 All-Hazards Plan (2020)
• FEMA Region 10 Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) Earthquake and Tsunami Plan (2022)

Hazard Identification/Vulnerability and Mitigation Planning/Assessment

• Washington State Enhanced Hazard Mitigation Plan (2023)

Homeland Security

• National Response Framework (NRF)
• Homeland Security Presidential Directive Resources    
  • Executive Orders, Proclamations and Memos
  • FAS Presidential Policy Directives
  • FAS Presidential Study Directives
  • Presidential National Security Directives 
  • Executive Orders on National Security (1940-Current)

Mass Care 

• High Risk/Medical Needs Shelter Planning Template (2008)
• State Emergency Repatriation Plan Version 1.02 (SERP) (2020)

Strategic

• Emergency Management Division Strategic Plan (2033)

Communications Plans

• Washington Statewide AMBER Alert Plan (2022)
• National Traffic System Radiogram (2002)
• Telecommunications Service Priority Plan (Word) 
• Logistics Communications Unit / RACES Plan (PDF) 
  • Standard Operating Procedures
• On-Scene Command and Coordination Radio (OSCCR) Plan (2005)
• Washington Integrated Public Alert & Warning System WAPAWS (2022)
  
• Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan (SCIP) (2024)

Integrated Preparedness Plan 

• Washington State Integrated Preparedness Plan (IPP) (2024-2026)

Recovery

• Washington Restoration Framework