The National Hurricane Center has confirmed that Tropical Storm Lani has exceeded the minimum Category 1 threshold criteria to become Hurricane Lani with sustained wind speeds averaging 60-65 miles per hour (
PILOT PROJECT WEATHER EVENT STATUS
The National Hurricane Center has confirmed that Tropical Storm Lani has exceeded the minimum Category 1 threshold criteria to become Hurricane Lani with sustained wind speeds averaging 60-65 miles per hour (mph). Since the last previous report, Hurricane Lani’s path has been in a gradual northwesterly direction. This has resulted in the Caribbean areas surrounding Guadalupe, Anguilla, and British Virgin Islands to avoid any major hurricane damage other than some gusty winds creating minor damage and some minor flooding. Hurricane Lani is now approximately 230 miles northeast of Puerto Rico and moving in a more north-northwest direction; continuation along this path should enable Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the Turks and Caicos Islands to avoid any major hurricane damage.
National Hurricane Center modeling continues to show Hurricane Lani making a U.S. east coast landfall. However, the most likely area of impact has narrowed to between Kitty Hawk, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC.
BACKGROUND
Last week, FEMA’s Congressional Affairs Division within the Office of External Affairs hosted a group of congressional staffers representing various congressional members from the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security. Such meetings are common throughout government and serve to provide the latest and most accurate information possible on any topic of interest to Congressional members and/or their staffers. This recent meeting provided the staffers with a series of briefings presenting background information across a wide range of topics including FEMA’s organizational structure, roles and responsibilities, major policies, upcoming budget submissions, ongoing initiatives, etc. Subsequently, the staffers have come back to FEMA with a set of numerous questions requesting further information and/or clarification associated with a variety of different FEMA offices.
One of the congressional staffer requests for further information is associated with the EMRAAS Pilot Project Team initiative. The staffers expressed great interest in this pilot project and their intent to maintain a situational awareness regarding the initiative’s progress, especially in light of the recent National Hurricane Center’s designation of Hurricane Lani and projected U.S. east coast landfall.
Of particular interest to some of the congressional staffers is the EMRAAS Pilot Project Team’s approach to the Team’s Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). Specifically, the congressional staffers were extremely interested in EMRAAS Pilot Project Team feedback/comments regarding their preference(s) and associated rationale with the three structural EOP format options within FEMA’s draft Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans: Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 dated November 2020, Version 3.0 (draft v0.5). (Note that this draft will eventually be a replacement for the same titled document dated November 2010.)
The three structural EOP formats options within Chapter 4 of the above referenced draft document as follows:
• Functional EOP
• Emergency Support Function EOP
• Agency/Department Focused EOP
The congressional staffers intend to use EMRAAS Pilot Project Team feedback/comments to help guide the draft document’s final version regarding these three structural EOP format options.
As a result, the Congressional Affairs Division has forwarded this congressional staffer request for further information to the OPPA Associate Administrator’s office. Subsequently, the OPPA Associated Administrator’s staff has tasked the congressional staffer request to the EMRAAS Pilot Project Team with a suspense date of no later than the end of Week 4.
Therefore, I’d like our Team to discuss this congressional staffer request. I’ll use your feedback/comment inputs to develop our EMRAAS Pilot Project Team point paper back to the OPPA Associate Administrator’s staff, who will review and then forward the Team’s point paper to the Congressional Affairs Division for action closure.
SHORT-TERM ANALYTIC STUDY #1 TASKER
The three EOP structural format options can be found in Chapter 4 of the draft Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans: Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 dated November 2020, Version 3.0 (draft v0.5). The complete draft document can be found in the same tasking folder as this memorandum; the associated link is cited below.
After reviewing the three EOP format options outlined within Chapter 4 of the above referenced draft document, briefly yet succinctly provide your feedback/comments to these three EOP format options from the context of enabling the best possible support by the emergency management community in a disaster-related environment.
• What are the similarities and/or differences between the three EOP format options?
• Are there any specific noteworthy strengths and/or weaknesses that you see associated with one or more of these three EOP format options?
• Do you believe having these three EOP format options “makes sense”? Or do you believe there is some other approach – such as an additional fourth EOP format option or just a single EOP format option – that would better serve the emergency management community?
• Do you believe the referenced draft document provides clear and succinct guidance that provides sufficient guidance to the emergency management community when it comes to selecting one of three available EOP format options as a “best” option while planning for a specific disaster-related event? Or is such specific guidance necessary?
• Any additional feedback/comments that you think should be communicated to the congressional staffers.
Potential references to use or at least get you started include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
a) Chapter 4 of the draft Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans: Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 dated November 2020, Version 3.0 (draft v0.5) … draft update of same existing document dated 2010
Link: https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/2020-11/fema_comprehensive-preparedness- guide_11-17-20.pdf
b) Emergency Support Functions (ESF) [FEMA website] … provides an overview for each of the 15 ESF sectors
Link: https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/national- preparedness/frameworks/response#esf
SUBMISSION GUIDANCE
Your completed individual Short-Term Analytic Study #1 assignment should be submitted as a single Word document in accordance with the following guidance.
• Length = minimum expectation of at least 4 full pages of text
• The following do not “count” towards a written Word document receiving 100% credit for the Length criteria: title page, table of contents (not required), abstract (not required), executive summary (not required), illustrations (tables, figures, graphs, pictures, etc. …all not required), appendices (not required), or reference list
• References = at least 5 high-quality “external” references (i.e., not part of the class required readings)
• Paragraph = 2.0 (double-spaced) … no right-margin justification
• Font = 11- or 12-point
• Margins = 1-inch
Post your individual Short-Term Analytic Study #1 essay response to this tasker along with supporting in-text citations and reference list (in APA 7th edition format) to your applicable personal Assignment folder as a single file.
As always, let me know if you have any questions about this tasker.
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EMRAAS Pilot Project Team Lead
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