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CONPLAN (January 2001)

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Letter of Agreement

Signatories to the Plan

List of Figures
Figure 1:    Incident Command System / Unified Command
Figure 2:    FBI Command Post
Figure 3:    Coordinating Relationships
Figure 4:    Joint Operations Center
Figure 5:    On-Scene Coordination  

 I.       Introduction and Background

A.     Introduction
B.     Purpose
C.     Scope
D.     Primary Federal Agencies
E.     Primary Agency Responsibilities
  1. Department of Justice (DOJ)/ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
  2. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 
  3. Department of Defense (DOD) 
  4. Department of Energy (DOE)
  5. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  6. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

II. Policies 

A.    Authorities
B.    Other Plans and Directives
C.    Federal Agency Authorities
D.    Federal Response to a Terrorism Incident 

1. Crisis Management 
2. Consequence Management 

E.    Lead Federal Agency Designation
F.    Requests For Federal Assistance
G.   Funding
H.   Deployment/Employment Priorities
I.     Planning Assumptions and Considerations
J.    Training and Exercises

III. Situation

A.   Introduction
B.   Differences between WMD Incidents and Other Incidents 
C.   Threat Levels 

1. Level #4 - Minimal Threat
2. Level #3 - Potential Threat
3. Level #2 - Credible Threat
4. Level #1 - WMD Incident

D. Lead Federal Agency Responsibilities

IV. Concept of Operations

A. Mission 
B. Command and Control

1. Consequence Management
2. Crisis Management

C. Unification of Federal, State and Local Response

1. Introduction
2. National Level Coordination
3. Field Level Coordination

4. On-Scene Coordination

V. Phasing of the Federal Response

A. Notification 

1. The Role of the FBI
2. The Role of FEMA 

B. Activation and Deployment

1. The Role of the FBI
2. The Role of FEMA

C. Response Operations
D. Response Deactivation
E. Recovery 

Appendix A Acronyms A-1

Appendix B Definitions

Table of Contents
List fo Figures
Introduction and Background
Policies
Situation
Concept of Operations
Phasing of the Federal Response
Appendix A - Acronyms
Appendix B - Definitions

 

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