Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 provides guidance from FEMA on the fundamentals of planning and developing emergency operations plans. The guide describes the steps to produce an emergency operations plan, possible plan structures and components of a base plan and its annexes. Other FEMA guides provide detailed information about planning considerations for specific functions, hazards and threats.
CPG 101 is a key resource in the emergency management community. While much of the core content in CPG 101 Version 2.0, released in 2010, remains fundamentally valid, a refresh of the document allows for inclusion of additional concepts, principles and strategies. The updated content in CPG 101 Version 3.1 is based on practitioner feedback, identified lessons learned and successful practices from real-world events and exercises that can inform the planning process.
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