ESF Coordinator
The Emergency Support Function (ESF) coordinator oversees the preparedness activities for the ESF and coordinates with its primary and support agencies. The ESF coordinator:

• Maintains contact with ESF primary and support agencies through conference calls, meetings, training activities, and exercises.
• Monitors the ESF’s progress in meeting the targets of the core capabilities it supports.
• Coordinates efforts with corresponding private sector, NGO, and Federal partners.
• Ensures the ESF is engaged in appropriate planning and preparedness activities.

Primary Agency
The ESF's primary agency has significant authorities, roles, resources, and capabilities for a particular function within the ESF. The primary agency:

• Orchestrates support within the functional area for the appropriate response core capabilities and other ESF missions.
• Notifies and requests assistance from support agencies.
• Manages mission assignments (in Stafford Act incidents) and coordinates with support agencies, as well as appropriate State officials, operations centers, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinates resources resulting from mission assignments.
• Works with all types of organizations to maximize the use of all available resources.
• Monitors progress in achieving core capability targets and other ESF missions, and provides that information as part of situational and periodic readiness or preparedness assessments.
• Plans for incident management, short-term recovery operations, and the transition to long-term recovery.
• Maintains trained personnel to support inter-agency emergency response and support teams.
• Identifies new equipment or capabilities required to prevent or respond to new or emerging threats and hazards or to validate and improve capabilities to address changing risks.
• Promotes physical accessibility, programmatic inclusion, and effective communication for the whole community, including individuals with disabilities and other access and functional needs.

Support Agencies
ESF support agencies have specific capabilities or resources that support the primary agency in executing the mission of the ESF. Support agencies typically:

• Participate in planning for incident management, short-term recovery operations, transition to long-term-recovery, and the development of supporting operational plans, standard operating procedures (SOPs), checklists, or other job aids.
• Provide input to periodic readiness assessments.
• Maintain trained personnel to support interagency emergency response and support teams.
• Identify new equipment or capabilities required to respond to new or emerging threats and hazards, or to improve the ability to address existing threats.
• Coordinate resources resulting from response mission assignments.