- Hawaii Plant Health Emergency Response Plan Final 12-30-2013 (PHERP): The basic purpose of the Plant Health Emergency Response Plan (PHERP) and Reference Manual is to facilitate a successful collaborative interagency and NGO rapid response to a newly-discovered serious plant pest in Hawai‘i, to prevent it from becoming established in the state or on a new island within the state. In particular, the PHERP 1) documents who may be able to help when HDOA and USDA determine that the risks posed by a plant pest are high enough to warrant an elevated response, including local, state, and federal agencies/entities, academia, industry, etc. and 2) describe in some detail the Standard Operating Guidelines involved in a generic emergency response, primarily to help potential collaborators be able to help when called upon, and to give them conceptual preparation for the task.
- Hawaii Plant Health Emergency Response Plan Appendices 12-30-2013 offers additional references and materials that were used to develop the PHERP.
- Plant Health Emergency Response Tabletop Exercise After Action Report/Improvement Plan The PHERP was tested in a “tabletop exercise”, a discussion-based exercise that used a fictitious plant health emergency scenario for the participants to talk through to identify the authorities, capacities, that each participant could bring to a high-priority rapid response, and where there are gaps or needs. The tabletop was evaluated and this After Action Report lists the strengths and areas for improvement. Coincidentally, the fictitious scenario was the “discovery” of coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) in Waimanalo, on the edge of Bellows Air Field. The Tabletop exercise was completed in November 2013. In December 2013, CRB was newly detected in Hawai‘i.