The following Web sites contain information and U.S. Department of Justice guidance in business disaster preparedness: U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Firearms and Explosives https://www.ready.gov/prepare-for-emergencies 99 New York Avenue, N.E. Office of Enforcement Programs This Department of Homeland Security site Washington, DC 20226 contains information on emergency preparedness www.atf.gov for families, children and businesses. https://www.fema.gov/ ATF This site offers free, step by step advice on Disaster Preparedness how to create and maintain a comprehensive emergency management program. Search “disaster for Federal Explosives preparedness.” http://www.redcross.org/ Licensees and This site offers free materials regarding disaster Permittees planning and recovery. https://www.usa.gov/disasters-and-emergencies This site contains information about the U.S. Government and its disaster relief programs and includes information on topics such as how to find family members or shelter after a disaster has taken place and what steps to take when you return to your home. State Government Home Pages These sites usually consist of “www.”, the State’s name followed by “.gov.” Many of these sites contain links to emergency management agencies, public safety departments, and small business offices. ATF is committed to assisting licensees and permittees in complying with the Federal explosives laws. Thank you for your continued diligence in helping keep America safe.

ATF Publication 5400.16

1972 Revised April 2018 Disaster Preparedness Also, consider maintaining an off-site, back-up (Read ATF’s December 2009 newsletter copy of critical records when a significant risk article on Deteriorated Explosives at Many natural disasters occur with little or of disaster is predicted for an area. https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/ no warning. Whether or not advance notice publications-library is possible, the preservation of life is always If Explosives Have Been Stolen or Lost ÏÏ Contact your local ATF office for paramount during any type of disaster. The additional guidance. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Within 24 hours of the discovery of a theft Explosives (ATF) urges all persons to take or loss of explosives, contact your local law If ATF-Required Records Have Been steps to protect family and property by having enforcement authority and the United States Damaged, Lost or Destroyed: Bomb Data Center (USBDC) at 800-461- a disaster preparedness plan in place before any Federal explosives licensees and permittees disaster occurs. 8841, or after hours at the ATF 24 hour hotline (800-800-3855). should inventory their explosive materials and For useful information on planning for a natural try to reconstruct any records destroyed, lost, or disaster, please visit http://www.ready.gov/. The USBDC or ATF hotline personnel will notify rendered illegible. (Consider contacting major The following are suggestions of voluntary the appropriate ATF Field Division to coordinate suppliers or customers to obtain copies of recent measures Federal Explosives Licensees and ATF’s field response. sales and acquisition records.) Contact your local ATF office for assistance or further information. Permittees (FEL/Ps) can take to help protect ÏÏ If you suspect that a theft has occurred, do FEL/Ps can obtain contact information for their explosives business premises and inventories in not disturb the scene until law enforcement local ATF offices by visiting https://www.atf.gov/ the event of a natural disaster and guidance on authorities have completed an assessment contact/atf-field-divisions. what to do if the business premises is damaged or and processed the potential crime scene. destroyed by a natural disaster. ÏÏ In the event that missing explosives are Why Establish a Disaster Preparedness Preliminary and Voluntary Steps to Prepare found, or stolen explosives are recovered Plan? and returned, please notify the USBDC for an Impending Natural Disaster: Having a Disaster Preparedness Plan is the best at 1-800-461-8841, and any investigating way to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate the effect For impending natural disasters (e.g., flood, agency personnel, of all recovered of, and recover from a business disruption. FEL/ forest fire, or hurricane), consider relocating your explosives. The USBDC is responsible Ps have a two-fold interest in having a plan in explosive materials to a compliant explosives for tracking all stolen, lost and recovered place: the need to safeguard their business to storage magazine in an area less susceptible explosives. Prompt reporting of the facilitate a quick recovery and the need to protect to damage. Contact your local ATF office and recovery of explosives previously reported the public from the risk of theft/loss of explosive provide the following information: as missing or stolen saves valuable materials. ÏÏ Business name, licensed premises and investigative time and resources. storage magazine address (including If Explosives Have Been Damaged: Additional Resources magazines used for the temporary ÏÏ If damaged explosive materials are an The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms relocation of explosives), and FEL/P immediate threat to public safety, contact and Explosives applauds the work of State and number; your local law enforcement authority and Federal disaster ÏÏ Emergency contact name, address and the ATF 24-hour hotline (800-800-3855). relief agencies and telephone number. ATF hotline personnel will notify the joins with them in This information is extremely useful in the event appropriate ATF Field Division, who will encouraging all ATF or local authorities need to contact you coordinate ATF’s field response. persons to have a regarding damage to your business premises and/ ÏÏ If the damaged explosive materials are disaster preparedness or inventory. In certain emergency situations, not an immediate threat to public safety, plan in place for both local field supervisors may have the authority to contact the manufacturer for instructions homes and businesses. verbally approve certain requests, such as adding on the appropriate means of destruction. a new magazine.