10. Appendix A: Roles and Responsibilities of ESFs

ESF #1 – Transportation
  • Aviation/airspace management and control
  • Transportation safety
  • Restoration/recovery of transportation infrastructure
  • Movement restrictions
  • Damage and impact assessment
ESF #2 – Communications
  • Coordination with telecommunications and information technology industries
  • Restoration and repair of telecommunications infrastructure
  • Protection, restoration, and sustainment of national cyber and information technology resources
  • Oversight of communications within the Federal incident management and response structures
ESF #3 – Public Works and Engineering
  • Infrastructure protection and emergency repair
  • Infrastructure restoration
  • Engineering services and construction management
  • Emergency contracting support for life-saving and life-sustaining services
ESF #4 – Firefighting
  • Coordination of Federal firefighting activities
  • Support to wildland, rural, and urban firefighting operations
ESF #5 – Emergency Management
  • Coordination of incident management and response efforts
  • Issuance of mission assignments
  • Resource and human capital
  • Incident action planning
  • Financial management
ESF #6 – Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services
  • Mass care
  • Emergency assistance
  • Disaster housing
  • Human services
ESF #7 – Logistics Management and Resource Support

Comprehensive, national incident logistics planning, management, and sustainment capability

Resource support (facility space, office equipment and supplies, contracting services, etc.)

ESF #8 – Public Health and Medical Services
  • Public health
  • Medical
  • Mental health services
  • Mass fatality management
ESF #9 – Search and Rescue
  • Life-saving assistance
  • Search and rescue operations
ESF #10 – Oil and Hazardous Materials Response
  • Oil and hazardous materials (chemical, biological, radiological, etc.) response
  • Environmental short- and long-term cleanup
ESF #11 – Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Nutrition assistance
  • Animal and plant disease and pest response
  • Food safety and security
  • Natural and cultural resources and historic properties protection and restoration
  • Safety and well-being of household pets
ESF #12 – Energy
  • Energy infrastructure assessment, repair, and restoration
  • Energy industry utilities coordination
  • Energy forecast
ESF #13 – Public Safety and Security
  • Facility and resource security
  • Security planning and technical resource assistance
  • Public safety and security support
  • Support to access, traffic, and crowd control
ESF #14 – Long-Term Community Recovery
  • Social and economic community impact assessment
  • Long-term community recovery assistance to States, local governments, and the private sector
  • Analysis and review of mitigation program implementation
ESF #15 – External Affairs
  • Emergency public information and protective action guidance
  • Media and community relations
  • Congressional and international affairs
  • Tribal and insular affairs