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efforts are in compliance with NEPA, CERCLA, EPCRA and applicable EPA guidelines. Recovery efforts may quickly
exhaust installation EM capabilities and require the capabilities of Federal, State, local, other Service, and/or private (or
Host Nation) EM, public works, environmental, and mass care-related agencies and departments. Special attention and
planning must be focused on the fiscal and logistical impact of recovery efforts, especially those incidents requiring
long-term displacement of the population, decontamination, restoration, and/or environmental remediation of affected
areas. For catastrophic incidents, the NRF and its catastrophic incident supplement will be activated and will remain in
effect until the majority of recovery efforts have been concluded.
19–2. Recovery strategy
a. Strategy. The focus of recovery is on restoring mission capability and essential public and government services
interrupted by the event. It is assumed that Federal, State, private, Host Nation and other outside agencies will provide
assistance during this stage as regions and installations do not have all the inherent capabilities required to successfully
recover from a moderate- to large-scale event. Recovery should begin as early as possible post-incident, after life safety
operations have subsided, to ensure efficient restoration of lifelines, critical operations, essential operations, and
essential services.
b. Roles and responsibilities. The role of the installation EM within the recovery phase is to establish strategic
objectives through the EOC and sustain resource management and coordination efforts for the duration of the recovery
operations. EM programs should concentrate on the coordination between different recovery functional areas and
specialties, to include public works, environmental, safety, medical, and mass care, vice attempting to develop expertise
in these specialty areas. Table 19–1 provides a prioritized list of principal recovery tasks associated with a moderate- to
large-scale event. For the short term, the incident commander shall review the event and the situation report for actions
that responders can take to mitigate the consequences of the event. The area will have been sealed off and access
control points established by the security personnel. Public works should institute measures to mitigate physical
structure damages in the short term if the threat exists. If circumstances warrant, medical personnel should issue health
advisories in accordance with the circumstances surrounding the event. Public affairs should be prepared to advise the
general public to communicate risk and provide information on measures being taken by the installation commander to
address the situation and individual needs. Public works should also ensure continued and/or increased access to debris
and trash removal services as well as restoration of sewage treatment and removal, water treatment and provision of
water services to both recovery efforts and the community, and power generation and distribution to both recovery
efforts and the community.
c. Recovery functions. Recovery functions include the following:
Eliminate life-threatening conditions.
Sustain and/or restore critical operations.
Restore essential operations.
Restore essential services.
Provide emergency public information to the Army community.
Provide community planning and development.
Provide for public health and safety.
Provide suitable housing conditions.
Building codes, permits, and inspection process.
Provide and/or manage financial assistance to all sectors of the Army community.
Resume normal economic and social activity within the Army community.
Return personnel to normal work schedules and assignments.
19–3. Recovery priorities
The installation commander shall establish recovery priorities consistent with the installation’s supported missions.
Consideration shall be given to operation mission priorities and re-establishment of the normal operating environment.
In order to assist the installation commander with this process, the Army EM Program employs the following standard
priority list based upon the FEMA Recovery from Disaster course (L270.4) which the installation commander may
modify as local conditions warrant.
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