"The audience for the Basic Plan needs to picture the sequence and scope of the planned emergency response. The concept of operations section explains the jurisdiction's overall approach to an emergency situation, i.e., what should happen, when, and at whose direction. Topics should include: division of local, State, Federal, and any intermediate interjurisdictional responsibilities; activation of the EOP; "action levels" and their implications....; general sequence of actions before, during, and after the emergency situation; who requests aid and under what conditions (the necessary forms being contained in tabs); and, for States, who appoints a State Coordinating Officer (SCO) and how the SCO and the State response organization will coordinate and work with Federal response personnel in accordance with the FRP.... The concept of operations will touch on direction and control, alert and warning or continuity of operations matters that may be dealt with more fully in annexes". (FEMA. Guide for All-Hazard Emergency Operations Planning (SLG 101), 1996, 4-3)