Emergency operations plans, comprehensive emergency management plans, tribal emergency management codes and continuity plans for tribal nations, counties, cities and special districts. Written to FEMA CPG 101 and NIMS, and sized for the staff who will actually maintain them.
Many small governments and tribes run emergency management with one or two people. Their plans are often long, borrowed from a larger jurisdiction, and out of date, so in a real event staff work from memory instead.
A useful emergency operations plan is short enough to maintain, clear about who has authority, and backed by checklists that people from any department can follow. For tribal nations it should also state the tribe’s own authority plainly and treat county, state and federal partners as coordinating partners, not as structures that take over.
Recovery is where most plans are thinnest. The firm’s background in catastrophe claims, damage assessment and FEMA Public Assistance means those sections are written by people who have done the work after a disaster.
Send the scope. We will tell you how we would approach it, and whether we can prime the work or join your team as a subconsultant.
Delivered directly to the tribe or jurisdiction, or as a subconsultant to the planning prime. Each project team pairs the firm’s principal with experienced emergency planners engaged for that project.
A basic plan, concept of operations, direction and control, and functional and hazard-specific annexes, sized for the staff who will maintain it. Written to FEMA CPG 101 and NIMS, with plain-language checklists people can use under pressure.
Draft code language that gives the plan legal footing: declaration authority and duration, succession, emergency orders, delegation and emergency procurement written to stay consistent with federal grant rules. Reviewed and approved by the tribe’s own counsel.
Activation levels and triggers, staffing by position with backups, ICS and EOC coordination, situation reports, resource requests and demobilization, built for a team drawn from many departments.
Essential functions, orders of succession, delegations of authority, alternate facilities and vital records, following FEMA continuity guidance and coordinated with the emergency plan.
A planning-level hazard summary drawn from existing tribal, county, state and federal data, plus department interviews that show what the organization can actually do on day one, and where the gaps are.
The sections most plans treat as boilerplate: initial and joint preliminary damage assessment, the path to a federal declaration, FEMA Public Assistance documentation, and insurance coordination under Stafford Act Section 312.
An emergency operations plan (EOP) focuses on how a government responds: who is in charge, how the emergency operations center activates, and which departments carry which functions. A comprehensive emergency management plan (CEMP) covers the same response framework and adds preparedness, recovery and mitigation, so it describes the whole emergency management program. Many states and tribes use the terms differently, so the plan follows the client’s own requirements.
A code gives the plan legal footing. It sets who may declare a tribal emergency, how long a declaration lasts, the order of succession, and what emergency orders and procurement may do. Without one, leaders often act on unclear authority in the first hours of an event. The tribe’s legal counsel reviews and approves any code language; the firm drafts and does not provide legal advice.
They do different jobs. A hazard mitigation plan under 44 CFR Part 201 reduces long-term risk and keeps a community eligible for mitigation project grants. An emergency operations plan guides the response when an event happens. The two should share the same hazard picture, and the firm builds them so they reference each other.
Often, yes. Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) funds commonly support emergency operations plan development and updates, and tribal and local programs use them for this work. Grant terms vary, so confirm eligibility with the grant manager before the project starts.
For a small government, often six to twelve months. Writing is rarely the slow part. Department interviews, review periods, and council or committee adoption schedules set the pace, so the schedule is built around them from the start.
Plans are reviewed against these documents, so it is worth reading the primary sources.
The firm is adding experienced emergency management and hazard mitigation planners as 1099 consultants, remote and part time. Former FEMA staff and retired emergency managers are encouraged to apply, and the plans you completed are credited to you in our proposals.
Send what you have, even if it is an old plan or a draft RFP. We will tell you what it would take to bring it current.
