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routes to safe shelter, ensuring the sufficiency of reasonably priced fuel, and addressing any emergency medical issues relative to evacuation. The following types of decisions will be made after coordination between the SERT Leader, the affected State ESF and the impacted counties. 9. Discussion of Direction and Control for Shelter The decision of opening shelters is a responsibility of the Emergency Management Director. Should a request for assistance be made to the SEDC, it will be to support the local sheltering plan with assistance in staffing shelters, identifying additional shelters, and managing shelters with a shortfall of resources. The SEOC will coordinate through ESF #6 (Mass Care) any requests for assistance from other ESFs that will be needed to support multi -county, regional and interregional shelter operations. a. The SERT Leader, following discussions with the GAR, ESF #6 (Mass Care) and the representatives of the impacted counties, will provide information regarding the status of evacuation orders and the potential for shelter needs on a county, regional, inter- regional, and/or statewide basis. b. All state assistance and support of sheltering will be coordinated from the SEOC through ESF #6 (Mass Care), under the direction and control of the SERT Leader. Decisions on sheltering issues will be made after coordination between appropriate State ESFs, impacted counties and the SERT Leader. 10. Discussion of Relationship between Primary and Support Agencies in the ESFs: a. An agency may be designated "the primary" for an ESF for a number of reasons. The agency may have a statutory responsibility to perform that function, or through its programmatic or regulatory responsibilities, the agency may have developed the necessary expertise to lead the ESF. In some agencies, a portion of the agency's mission is very similar to the mission of the ESF; therefore, the skills to respond in a disaster can be immediately translated from the daily business of that agency. Whatever the reason an agency is designated as the "primary" agency, that agency has the necessary contacts and expertise to coordinate the activities of that support function. For a list of primary agencies and their respective emergency support functions, see the Primary Agency Listing attached to this document and Indian River County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan Basic Page 128