The COOP Self-Assessment Tool was developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist Federal agencies and departments in assessing their COOP plans against Federal Preparedness Circular-65 (FPC-65), originally published July 26, 1999 and revised June 15, 2004, which directed all Federal departments and agencies to develop COOP plans.

Although this self assessment tool was developed for Federal agencies and departments, it is applicable to those COOP plans being developed by Local Health Departments (LHD's) and can assist LHD's in assessing components of their COOP plans; therefore, the Public Health Plan Review Workgroup felt that it would be worthy of mention and inclusion as another tool to assist LHD's in their planning efforts.

Click here to view the COOP Self-Assessment Tool.

If you wish to read and learn more about FPC-65 you may review the entire document at http://www.fema.gov/txt/government/coop/fpc65_0604.txt.