The purpose of the Basic Plan is to identify a shortfall, or a deficiency, in the overall emergency management plan that you have selected. Perhaps the jurisdiction does not address the issue of aquifer protection or does not address the issue of cyber-security. Or, it can be any other issue that you find to be relevant and needed more analysis, or elaboration, to make the jurisdictional emergency management plan more complete or enhanced in some manner. Either way, you should focus on one area of improvement and the Basic Plan will be an elaboration on this deficiency or area of the plan that is missing altogether from the jurisdictional plan being reviewed.

Please see Unit 4, of the FEMA document to review the components of the Basic Plan.

The Outline students should use for this assignment is as follows:

• Purpose Statement (elaborate upon the hazard or risk that you have determined needs more analysis preparation from the review of the selected emergency management document)
• Scope of the Threat or Hazard
• Situation Overview
• Planning Assumptions