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A continuity of operations plan (COOP) ensures continued performance of essential functions across a wide range of natural and man-made emergencies. A COOP plan is a collection of resources, actions, procedures, and information that is developed, tested, and held in readiness for use in the event of a major disruption of operations. COOP planning helps prepare a facility, organization, or agency to better maintain critical operations after any emergency or disaster.

For your COOP plan, you will focus on the city or community you live in, referred to as Yourtown(Tucson), throughout this course.

Writing this Scope & Applicability section of the COOP begins with describing the elements of a facility, organization, or agency affected by the COOP plan, the times during which the COOP plan is in effect, the components covered by the COOP plan, and the distribution of the COOP plan.

For the purposes of this assignment, the COOP plan is applicable to Yourtown's (Tucson) building, departments, agencies, likely contractors and personnel.

Your COOP plan must be written clearly and concisely because, in the real world, the Scope & Applicability portion of your COOP will be presented to all local emergency response and management agencies, designated emergency coordination officers, city/county/regional emergency management directors, emergency management planners, and other interested parties.

Explicitly state the scope and applicability of emergency, disaster response, the entities affected (e.g., government departments, agencies, private sector, citizens), and geographic areas to which the plan applies. Get top-notch online assignment help now.

Write a 1,200- to 1,500-word expanded Scope & Applicability section of the COOP plan. Note, utilize instructor feedback from the previous Scope & Applicability assignment; this assignment should include 500-800 words of new content addressing the following:

Scope:

Describe the most likely actions to be taken to implement a viable COOP capability within 12 hours of an emergency event in your town.
Explain how to sustain that capability for up to 30 days. (Your COOP plan must also be capable of being activated during duty and non-duty hours, both with and without warning, so make sure to describe these methods as well.)

Next, describe how the five most critical departments and resources located in your town (e.g., fire, police, local government building critical personnel, public works, computer [IT] and dispatch systems, vehicles, and buildings operated or maintained by Yourtown's (Tucson) government) will be utilized to sustain operations and what their responsibilities and assignments will be in your COOP plan.