"The State Emergency Response and Recovery Plan (SERRP) is a guide to how the State of Arizona conducts all hazards response. It is built upon National Response Framework as a scalable, flexible, and adaptable coordinating structures to align key roles and responsibilities across the State, linking all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector. It is intended to capture specific authorities and best practices for managing incidents that range from the serious but purely local, to large-scale terrorist attacks or catastrophic natural disasters"--Preface, page i.

Meant to aid State & local emergency managers in their efforts to develop & maintain a viable all-hazard emergency operations plan. This guide clarifies the preparedness, response, & short-term recovery planning elements that warrant inclusion in emergency operations plans. It offers the best judgment & recommendations on how to deal with the entire planning process -- from forming a planning team to writing the plan. Specific topics of discussion include: preliminary considerations, the planning process, emergency operations plan format, basic plan content, functional annex content, hazard-unique planning, & linking Federal & State operations.

"To prepare for the next pandemic, public health officials ... have initiated a planning process. The development of Arizona’s plan is a coordinated effort and is based on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Pandemic Influenza Plan, dated November 2005 http://www.hhs.gov/pandemicflu/plan/ and the Pandemic Influenza Incident Appendix to the State Emergency Response and Recovery Plan (SERRP).... This plan is an Incident Annex to the Arizona Department of Health Services Emergency Response Plan. The response activities will be carried out in collaboration with the Arizona Division of Emergency Management, local health departments and other local, state and federal agencies"--Page 6.

"This Plan is in compliance with Public Law 99-499, Title III (... SARA Title III), the Arizona Revised Statues Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (Title 26, Chapter 2, Article 3 §341-353), the 2010 Comprehensive Planning Guide 101 and the 2001 Hazardous Materials Emergency Planning Guide. It is a stand-alone plan but can be referenced or function as an appendix to Emergency Support Function #10 (Hazardous Materials Response) found in the Santa Cruz County Emergency Response and Recovery Plan, dated June 2002."--Promulgation document, page 5.