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ESF-18: BUSINESS, INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC STABILIZATION



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ESF-18: BUSINESS, INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC STABILIZATION



I. GENERAL:
A. Primary Agency: Nature Coast Business Development Council
B. Support Agencies: Tourist Development Council

  • Municipal Chambers of Commerce

  • Local business associations


II. INTRODUCTION:
A. Purpose
Emergency Support Function (ESF) 18 will coordinate County and Business resources within Levy County during an emergency or disaster to provide support to the residents of Levy County and help the community recovery from the impacts of disasters.
B. Scope
ESF-18 helps with gathering information regarding the impact of the incident to business and industry, to include employment; Provide assistance, services and information to business and industry during the recovery process to minimize the economic impact of the disaster; Provide available business assets to the County to assist in the recovery; Develop and implement programs to restore tourism and related industries after an incident; Facilitate the involvement of the business and industry in the overall response and recovery efforts of the County; Expedite access of affected business and industry to County, State and Federal assistance program
C. Planning Assumptions:
1. Following a disaster, it can be expected that there may be impact to business and industry throughout the County. The disaster impact will affect the ability of business and industry to recovery.
2. The resources of Levy County might be expended and mutual aid might be required.
3. Neighboring counties might also be impacted.
4. ESF-18 will be needed to provide volunteers for both the field and to staff the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) if a 24-hour operation is required.
III. CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS:
A. General:
The coordination of County and local agencies involved in assisting local economic development, workforce, tourism and other business support agencies includes performing tasks related to preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation where local resources are not sufficient and local government would need to request State and Federal assistance during times of disaster with the County.
B. Organization
For Emergency Support Function 18, primary agency responsibilities, the Nature Coast Business Development Council will act as the Lead Agency during an EOC activation and report to the Emergency Management Director. They will provide sufficient staff to the EOC to coordinate ESF 18 resources and needs with the other ESFs.
C. Notification:
1. Upon notification by Levy County Emergency Management of a potential or actual event requiring response, the emergency contact person for the lead agency will notify all other Emergency Support Function members by telephone, pagers or through the Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
2. All support agency contact persons for ESF-18 will be instructed to alert their contacts to ensure that all available resources are on standby.
3. Resource inventories will be confirmed for possible use.
D. Actions:
1. Preparedness
a. In conjunction with Emergency Management, facilitate disaster planning and training for businesses i.e. Business Continuity Planning
b. Coordinate support agencies and resources during exercises
c. In cooperation with Emergency Management, facilitate business outreach
d. Develop and maintain a database of agency/business contacts
e. Identify local resources or funding for immediate and long term business recovery
2. Response
a. Track response activities of business community and support agencies
b. Maintain roster of agency/business contacts
c. Coordinate with ESF 5 - Information and Planning - and ESF 14-- Public Information - to disseminate recovery information
d. Coordinate utilization of local resources with ESF 7 –Resource Support
3. Recovery
a. Track recovery activities
b. Coordinate initial impact assessment of general business impact i.e. job loss, dollar loss, etc.
c. Coordinate with Federal and State agencies to support delivery of disaster recovery assistance programs such as :
1). Small Business Administration (SBA) Loans

2). Florida Small Business Emergency Bridge Loans



3). Other
d. Coordinate lodging availability for out of county responders
4. Mitigation
a. Participate on Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) work group

IV. RESPONSIBILITIES:
A. Primary Agency: Nature Coast Business Development Council
Responsibilities:
ESF-18 assists local government and Business and Industry in their response to a disaster.
a. Conduct pre-incident coordination meeting with support agencies.
b. Establish a call-out roster of all personnel and volunteers.
c. Coordinate volunteer resources with other county ESF’s to include staffing of the EOC.
d. Coordinated shutdown/evacuation of Business and Industry.
e. Access to affected areas by Business and industry damage assessment teams.
f. Coordination with all ESF's as to these procedures before during, and after the incident.
g. Assist in coordination of Business and Industry response, recovery and restoration efforts.
h. Coordinate transportation of Business and Industry materials, personnel and supplies for the purpose of recovery and restoration activities.
i. The focal point for all business related communications before during and after an incident.
j. Development, implementation and management of Business and Industry emergency relief programs.
k. Identification of Business and Industry resources available for community wide relief/recovery efforts.
l. Assimilation of Damage Assessment to Business and Industry for inclusion in the ESF-5 Final Damage Assessment Reports.
m. Partner with the EOC in Education and Training of Disaster exercise programs.
B. Support agencies: Tourist Development Council
Responsibilities:
All support agencies will maintain an inventory list of resources that may be used for response and recovery. The support agencies will support the lead agency in staffing the EOC and other needed support.
V. RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS
All supporting agencies that provide assistance due to requests from Emergency Support Function 18 are responsible for documenting their costs beginning at the time of their tasking. All supporting agencies must submit their preliminary cost estimates to the appropriate lead agency on request, and their cumulative cost estimates on a weekly basis. Final cost estimates must be submitted to the appropriate lead agency within 15 business days of stand down orders. ESF-18 must provided qualified and capable staff for 24-hour operations of the ESF position in the EOC as needed.



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