1. Florida Division of Emergency Management1 Year 2000 Y2K and Emergency Management

2. Florida Division of Emergency Management2 Acronyms ECO - Emergency Coordinating Officers ESF - Emergency Support Functions FDEM - Florida Division of Emergency Management FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency SEOC - State Emergency Operations Center SERT - State Emergency Response Team Y2K - Year 2000

3. Florida Division of Emergency Management3 Y2K? What is Y2K and why do I care? How did it happen? Who is going to pay for it? Who is in charge? What is Emergency Management’s role?

4. Florida Division of Emergency Management4 Estimated Cost of Y2K The Gartner Group estimates the total cost of Year 2000 to be:  Worldwide IT Cost: US $300 billion to $600 billion  U.S. IT Cost: US $150 billion to $225 billion  US $1-2 trillion: total worldwide cost

5. Florida Division of Emergency Management5 Y2K EM Response New challenges The traditional response to disasters is based on the ability to move resources from an unaffected area to the area of impact. Short Term - resources and people, long term - financial.

6. Florida Division of Emergency Management6 Y2K EM Response New challenges Y2K Response, everyone is potentially affected at the same time in each time zone. Response is dependent on critical infrastructure.

7. Florida Division of Emergency Management7 Critical Infrastructures Telecommunications * Electric power * Emergency services* Banking and Finance Transportation Gas and oil Government services

8. Florida Division of Emergency Management8 Utterly Predictable Unlike most of the disasters with which the Year 2000 problem has been compared—storms, strikes, wars—it is completely foreseeable. Y2K will arrive on schedule, but do an unpredictable amount of harm.

9. Florida Division of Emergency Management9 Current Situation Lack of specific information for the emergency management community on impacts of Y2K on critical infrastructure.

10. Florida Division of Emergency Management10 Current Situation Interdependency on information, communication, and energy systems resulting in impacts beyond isolated system failures.

11. Florida Division of Emergency Management11 Use of Networks in Utilities Voice Data Other Networks Public Network Generating Plants Distribution Substation Industrial Load Transmission Substation Commercial Load Residential Load

12. Florida Division of Emergency Management12 Current Situation Currently no one is predicting that all vulnerable Y2K systems will be repaired/replaced by: – December 31, 1999 11:59 p.m.

13. Florida Division of Emergency Management13 FDEM Planning Model Crisis Response –repair / mitigation of the Y2K problem Consequence Response –Response to critical infrastructure failures

14. Florida Division of Emergency Management14 Crisis Response State of Florida Year 2000 Task Force –http://y2k.state.fl.us/ Internal Y2K Compliance External Y2K Compliance Embedded Chips

15. Florida Division of Emergency Management15 Consequence Response Societal Response to Y2K Y2K impacts on critical Infrastructures Florida Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan

16. Florida Division of Emergency Management16 Societal Response to Y2K “The economic and sociopolitical results from Year 2000 failures can include panic, unrest, increased crime, food and infrastructure interruptions, and health and safety issues. Social order may be affected when basic needs are disrupted.” –Expert Testimony of Lou Marcoccio to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem October 7th, 1998 Washington, D.C.

17. Florida Division of Emergency Management17 FDEM Y2K Action Plan Briefed County Emergency Management Agencies on Y2K Briefed State Emergency Response Team Agencies on Y2K Developing Y2K Emergency Planning Guides Planning meeting with the Emergency Coordinating Officers of Florida’s Public Utilities.

18. Florida Division of Emergency Management18 FDEM Y2K Action Plan Focus on Critical Infrastructure Failures. Real time public information. Classification of level of failures. Requests for assistance from local government. Real time coordination with Florida’s Public Utilities Coordination with Federal Government (FEMA)

19. Florida Division of Emergency Management19 FDEM Y2K Action Plan County Table Top Exercise –January 12, 1999 - Daytona Beach SEOC Table Top Exercise –February 4, 1999 - Tallahassee SEOC Functional Exercise –Fall 1999 - Tallahassee SEOC Activated for Jan 1, 2000 –Week of December 31, 1999

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22. Florida Division of Emergency Management22 Objectives for Critical Infrastructure Assist in the remediation of areas in critical infrastructure that need State help Help promote media awareness of strength of critical infrastructure Help emergency management prevent Y2K infrastructure problems before they occur

23. Florida Division of Emergency Management23 Y2K on the Internet Team Florida 2000 –http://www.tf2k.org/ FDEM Y2K Site –http://www.dca.state.fl.us/fdem/ FEMA Y2K Site –http://www.fema.gov/y2k/ President’s Commission on Y2K –http://www.y2k.gov/

24. Florida Division of Emergency Management24 Craig Fugate, Chief Bureau of Preparedness and Response Department of Community Affairs craig.fugate@dca.state.fl.us Office: 850-413-9837 Fax: 850-488-5777