Recovery Federal Interagency Operational Plan
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Introduction
The National Preparedness System establishes a consistent and reliable approach to achieve the
National Preparedness Goal and prepare for the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk to the
security of the Nation. The National Preparedness System integrates efforts across the five
preparedness mission areas—Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery—and
includes a series of planning documents to enhance national preparedness. As part of this effort, the
National Planning System integrates planning across all levels of government and with the private
and nonprofit sectors around key capabilities that can be scaled, as needed, to provide an agile,
flexible approach to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond, and recover.
The National Planning System includes the following elements:
1. A set of National Planning Frameworks that describe the key roles and responsibilities to deliver
the core capabilities required to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond, and recover;
2. A set of Federal Interagency Operational Plans (FIOPs)—one for each mission area—that
provides further detail regarding roles and responsibilities, specifies the critical tasks, and
identifies resourcing and sourcing requirements for delivering core capabilities;
3. Federal department and agency operational plans to implement the FIOPs; and
4. Comprehensive planning guidance to support planning by local, state, tribal, territorial, and
insular area governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector.
This Recovery FIOP provides guidance to implement the National Disaster Recovery Framework
(NDRF), which sets the doctrinal guidance for how the whole community builds, sustains, and
delivers the Recovery core capabilities identified in the National Preparedness Goal.
It describes the
concept of operations for integrating and synchronizing existing national-level Federal capabilities to
support local, state, tribal, territorial, insular area, and Federal plans and is supported by Federal
department-level operational plans, where appropriate.
Mission, Purpose, and Scope
The Recovery FIOP describes how the Federal Government delivers eight core capabilities for the
Recovery mission area. It is a plan that provides guidance for implementing the NDRF. The
Recovery FIOP provides guidance for effective delivery of recovery support to disaster-impacted
local, state, tribal, territorial, and insular area jurisdictions. It provides a flexible structure that
enables disaster recovery managers to operate in a unified and collaborative manner while preserving
the civil rights and civil liberties of all community members. The Recovery FIOP describes how
Federal recovery field leadership—the Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) and Federal Disaster
Recovery Officer (FDRC)—and Recovery Support Function (RSF) agencies and related entities
work in coordination with nongovernmental and private sector organizations to support local, state,
The whole community includes individuals and communities, the private and nonprofit sectors, faith-based
organizations, and all levels of government (local, regional/metropolitan, state, tribal, territorial, insular area, and
Federal). Whole community is defined in the National Preparedness Goal as “a focus on enabling the participation in
national preparedness activities of a wider range of players from the private and nonprofit sectors, including
nongovernmental organizations and the general public, in conjunction with the participation of all levels of
government in order to foster better coordination and working relationships.” Whole community includes all
individuals, including people with disabilities and others with access and functional needs, families, households,
communities, the private and nonprofit sectors, faith-based organizations, and local, state, tribal, territorial, and
Federal governments.