State Response Plan Templates: Food, Crop, and Animal Health

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State Response Plan Templates Food, Crop, and
Animal Health

• Developed by the
• Multi-State Partnership for Security in
  Agriculture

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Discussion Points

• Background on the Multi-State Partnership for
  Security in Agriculture
• Overview of the Plan Template Development
• Discussion of Planning Workshops

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Participating States and Agencies

• Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota,
  Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,
  South Dakota, and Wisconsin
• Departments of Agriculture
• State Veterinarians Offices
• Homeland Security Advisors
• Emergency Management Divisions

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Multi-State Partnership for Security in
Agriculture

• Kick off summit held in August, 2003
• Agreed to collaborate and form a partnership
• Collaborate on agriculture emergency response
  related activities
• Promote consistency across state lines
• Prevent duplication of effort
• Maximize funding

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Partnership Priorities

• Joint response planning, training and exercising
• Preparing and coordinating risk communications
  materials
• Understanding the diverse surveillance systems in
  place throughout the food supply chain

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Development of (3) Response Plan Templates

• Animal Health
• Crop
• Food
• Food Response Plan efforts of the Partnership
  were coordinated with those of the NASDA workshop

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Response Plan Templates

• Assessment of Current Partnership State Plans
• Most states had animal health response plans
• Few state had crop and food response plans

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Response Plan Templates

• Identified and incorporated the best portions of
  existing state plans
• Consistent with NIMS and the NRP
• Highlighted and addressed the gaps seen in
  current state plans
• Attention to cross border issues
• Meant to be a starting point for states planning
  process

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Planning Workshops

• Participants
• Relative to each planning area
• Format
• Question / Answer Session
• Scenario based discussion
• End-product
• Plan Development

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Using the Planning Templates

• Please use as you wish
• There are no proprietary issues related to use
• Please let the Partnership know if you have
  comments and/or suggestions on how to improve the
  documents

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Contact Information

• Multi-State Partnership for Security in
  Agriculture
• Ann Garvey, Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency
  Management
• Phone [phone]
• Email ann.garvey_at_hlsem.state.ia.us