2024-018 - Emergency Operations Plan

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City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan Part I Basic Plan 2.2 Critical Infrastructure and Critical Facilities The US Department of Homeland Security (USDHS) defines Critical Infrastructure as assets, systems and networks so vital that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on the security, economy or public health and safety of the nation. Critical infrastructure may be publicly or privately owned. USDHS identifies 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors: • Chemicals • Commercial Facilities • Communications • Critical Manufacturing • Dams • Defense Industrial Base • Emergency Services • Energy • Financial Services • Food and Agriculture • Government Facilities • Healthcare and Public Health • Information Technology • Nuclear Materials and Waste • Transportation • Water and Wastewater The USDHS definition of critical infrastructure focuses on prevention and protection from terrorism or intentional acts. The Community Profile information detailed in Section 2.1 above provides a description of the primary critical infrastructure for the City of Santa Ana, which focuses on the assets and resources necessary for City operations and functioning on a day-to-day basis or for disaster response and recovery. A subset of Critical Infrastructure is Critical Facilities. Critical facilities are defined in this Plan as a specific building, structure or property (public or private) which is vital to the City's ability to provide essential services and to protect life and property, especially during a hazard or disaster event. This Plan identifies seven categories of critical facilities for the City: • Government (city, county, state, and federal offices, police and fire stations, military) • Schools and Colleges • Utilities (electric, gas, water/wastewater, and communications sites) • Transportation (mass transit and transportation maintenance facilities) • Healthcare (hospital, ambulance and public health facilities) • Mass Care or Disaster Relief (shelters, points of distribution, disaster relief NGO's) • Critical Retail (grocery, pharmacy and home repair/hardware stores affiliated with regional or national, disaster -resilient management and distribution networks) Most critical facilities within the City of Santa Ana are known or accessible to the public, some facilities have requested to keep their actual location or role in emergency response private. Identification of critical facilities is protected from disclosure by the official information privilege. Official information includes information, the disclosure of which is against the public interest, due to necessity for preserving the confidentiality of the information that outweighs the necessity for disclosure in the interest of justice. The City of Santa Ana Planning and Building Agency, Business License Division can provide an updated list of private -sector facilities, and individual government agencies can update their listed facilities. 01