CEMP Supporting Annexes

The purpose of this Annex is to ensure that the State has a detailed plan to provide distribution and inventory management capabilities that can be applied during disasters and emergencies within the State, including ordering, distributing, managing, transporting, staging, and demobilizing of critical resources. This plan works in conjunction with the NYS Logistics Annex and the corresponding Emergency Support Function #7: Logistics.

The Emergency Information Annex establishes policies and operational procedures for disseminating official information and instructions to the people of New York State through all available communications media before, during, and after an emergency or disaster in any location of the state in support of State response/recovery operations. This function must be capable of issuing emergency instructions; responding to the needs of the public, the media, and elected officials; and conducting media monitoring and public inquiry.

The objective of the Emergency Repatriation Annex is to minimize the impact on repatriates during their emergency relocation to United States when using New York State as an entry point. The Annex outlines provisions to enable repatriates to quickly and efficiently receive comprehensive services through the coordination of several state and federal programs. The Federal government is responsible for the initiation of repatriation services and for all activities prior to and immediately after the arrival of the plane at the port of entry (POE). New York State is responsible for coordinating the delivery of services as part of the State’s response. This could include providing temporary assistance such as monetary support, medical care, temporary public sheltering, transportation, and other goods and services necessary for the health or welfare of individuals (including guidance, counseling, and other welfare services) to eligible repatriates within New York State for up to 90 days to assist them with resettlement into the area.

Several events have occurred in New York State that serve as a constant reminder of the challenges and sensitivities associated with fatality management. State OEM Planning Staff and staff from the NYS Department of Health jointly spearheaded a planning effort to update the State-level Fatality Management Annex to the State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP). The planning team included representatives from numerous DPC agencies, as well as local government, health and hospital organizations, volunteer organizations, and the private sector. The Annex is an all hazards, capabilities-based plan that leverages the wealth of resources and support from multiple DPC agencies and identifies the linkages into the Federal response system. The Annex will serve as the state's operating plan for all incidents in New York State that require State-level fatality management support.

The purpose of this Annex is to ensure the State is able to respond to the logistical needs associated with disasters and emergencies within the State, including pre-positioning resources for known events and having adequate resources for no-notice events. The objectives of the Annex are to describe the State's logistic management and delivery organization, to provide an overview of operations for executing logistics management in support of an event requiring state assistance, and to outline state logistics management responsibilities in support of the Response and Short-term Recovery section of the State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan.

The State of New York experiences a wide variety of disasters and emergencies that may result in loss of life, damage, destruction of property, and negatively affect community members. Potential community disaster can be a result of natural or human-causes emergencies which pose challenges in sheltering, feeding, family reunification, and distributing emergency supplies to people who have been impacted by an emergency or disaster. Disasters have the potential to exhaust resources at the local level and warrant support from the State, or possibly the Federal government, to effectively respond to the event. At the State level, coordinating mass care operations include sheltering, feeding, distribution of emergency supplies, and family reunification. This Mass Care Annex is intended to provide information, guidance, and a process for coordinating available State, Federal, and NGO resources to support local mass care operations through the response and recovery phases.

The purpose of this Appendix is to define the operational concepts and responsibilities to support and assist municipalities in establishing and maintaining Temporary Emergency Animal Sheltering (TEAS). These shelters will serve individuals with household pets and service animals displaced by the effects of an emergency or disaster, or when seeking protection from an imminent or actual hazardous event or conditions.

The objective of the Volunteer and Donations Management Annex is to manage the reception and distribution of donated resources to quickly assist the affected populations and minimize waste. This Annex is intended to provide information, guidance, and a process for coordinating available State, Federal, and NGO resources to support local donations management operations through the response and recovery phases.

This Annex to the State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) outlines the State’s strategy in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a blizzard or severe winter weather event in a collective, multi-agency State approach. Further, the Annex outlines coordination activities to mitigate challenges experienced by marginalized communities and address the needs of people and animals at greater risk of adverse impacts from severe winter weather. This includes utilizing individual agency activities and existing agency programs, as well as the activities of the State’s Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) as warranted.

This Annex applies to any warm weather or cold weather coastal storm that warrants a collective, multi-agency state disaster response.  This Annex identifies the key mechanisms in coordinating with local and federal stakeholders in response to an impending coastal storm.  This Annex includes an operational timeline and operating protocols that ensures the State's response is mobilized in advance of all local or Federal plans.

The New York State Drought Management Coordination Annex provides the framework for the implementation of strategies and actions to reduce the impact of drought conditions. Through coordinated preparedness and response efforts, the impact of drought conditions on communities and commerce can be reduced. This Annex identifies State and local actions to be undertaken for drought mitigation, preparedness, and response as drought conditions become evident.

The purpose of this Appendix is to ensure that the State has a plan to respond to an actual or threatened outbreak of disease in non-human populations. This Appendix will serve as a hazard-specific supplement to the Emergency Support Function (ESF) #11 Annex, and identifies the arrangements to protect lives and the agricultural community by providing an efficient, coordinated response to such emergencies.

The purpose of this Annex is to ensure that the strategic and broad-based nature of the State CEMP is more defined to allow the State to adequately prepare for, respond to, and recover from an extreme heat event.

The purpose of this Annex is to ensure that the State of New York can adequately prepare for, respond to, and recover from a hazardous materials emergency that warrants a large-scale, multi-agency response. This Annex will ensure that the State possesses a viable, multi-agency plan that encompasses tactical, operational, and strategic response mechanisms from all levels of the State's response organization. In doing so, this Annex will integrate State agency-specific activities, as well as the activities of the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) and the State's Emergency Support Function (ESF) #10, and other ESFs as appropriate.

This Annex to the State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan outlines New York State's strategy in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a pandemic in a collective, multi-agency approach. This Annex outlines the potential impacts and concerns associated with a novel strain of virus in New York State, and aligns State/Federal response activities that encompass the efforts of the New York State Department of Health Pandemic Influenza Plan and the recently revised operating framework of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).