What concerns me about that link, is it seems to have popped up after the hurricane re the date.
It is amazing that Walmart and Home Depot can respond massively and quicker than the various levels of government.
It was obvious that before, during and after the disaster, the worthless governor was being to told to resist all types of help unless she was in control of it.
The 2005 plan is a draft, AFAIK, and has not yet been formally adopted. Just the same, it is useful for scoping out the intended division of responsibility and authority.
On a separate subject, here is a pretty good introduction to the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which is one of the tools at the governor's disposal.
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/downloads/EMAC_Full_Precourse_04_14_05.pdf <- 2.5 Mb
No surprise that private industry can move more quickly than the government. But we're about to get anther increase in government bureacracy in the aftermath of Katrina.
Now I'm off to see if "National Incident Management System" provides any illumination into how the politicians and bureacrats planned to implement their promises to cooperate with each other.