Companion Questionnaire for Emergency Management Agencies
The
purpose of this study is to examine airport preparedness, mitigation measures, and recovery preparations for catastrophes.
It focuses on airport plans, flexibilities, capabilities, and relationships with other local and regional agencies to protect
airport continuity of operations during catastrophes. For details on the study, see www.airportstudy2008.com.
Please return completed questionnaire
as an email Word attachment, fax, or mail to Jim Smith, jfsmith at swva.net, 540-763-3068, cell 540-239-1206, fax 540-763-3268,
385 Sam Reed Rd NW, Floyd, VA 24091.
Date of response: ___ ___________________
EMA name | | Airport Code: | |
| Primary EMA Contact for this study (as identified by the airport): |
| Contact 1: | | Title: | |
| Phone: | | Email: | |
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Does your agency receive funding from the airport for cooperating
and coordinating with them for non-aviation incidents? Yes
No Don’t know
Does the
airport have a “desk” in your EOC? Yes No
Does your agency have
a “desk” in the airport’s EOC? Yes Sometimes No
Does your agency have
a mutual aid pact with the airport? Yes No Not applicable since my agency
and the airport are departments of the same entity
What formal ties (beyond aviation-related mutual aid agreements) exist between
the airport and EMAs? Please type your answer in the box below.
Does your agency act as intermediary between the airport and your main Multiagency
Coordination (MAC) entity? Yes No Sometimes, depending on nature
of incident
Have your agency AND the airport ever participated in a major regional or national disaster or catastrophe
exercise involving DOD? If so, plus use box below to describe in general terms what airport role(s)
it involved?
For what sorts of non-aviation-caused catastrophic-level threats does your
agency have Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) / Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs) that are joint with the airport?
To what degree is the airport integrated into response
coordination (Emergency Support Functions, ESF-1 and ESF-7, possibly others) for command and control, communication, access,
security, other uses of airport asset with local, regional, or state MACs for non-aviation-caused incidents?
Which of the following models best describe/describes the
relationships between your agency and the airport? Please mark all that apply and annotate as necessity for clarity.
None
Informal cooperation
Mutual aid pacts
Airport is a city or county department
and is fully integrated into city or county’s emergency management system
Airport has EOC(s) and acts independently
Airport functions as an ESF under the local EMA
Airport is its own MAC
Airport relates to
EMAs only for aviation and terrorism and is otherwise isolated from EMA/MAC functions
Something else:
With which of the following agencies or entities has your agency done airport-related cooperative planning, training, drilling, and/or exercising in the
past two years? (Please mark.)
