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National Incident Management
System
Overview Briefing Fiscal Year (FY) 2005
Implementation Fiscal Year (FY) 2006
Implementation Requirements for State and Local
Jurisdictions Chuck Smiarowski, Executive Office
of Public Safety, Homeland Security Division
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Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5

• National Incident Management System (NIMS)
• A consistent nationwide approach for all levels
  of government to work effectively and efficiently
  together to prepare for and respond to domestic
  incidents
• Core set of concepts, principles and terminology
  for incident command and multi-agency
  coordination

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Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5
(Continued)

• National Response Plan (NRP)
• Provides the structure and mechanisms for a
  comprehensive nationwide approach to domestic
  incident management
• Applicable to all federal departments and
  agencies that may be involved in responding to an
  Incident of National Significance.

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Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5
(Continued)

• Requires all Federal Departments and Agencies to
  adopt the NIMS and the NRP
• Requires state and local NIMS compliance as a
  condition for Federal preparedness assistance

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Development of NIMS and NRP

• Extensive coordination with Federal, State, local
  and tribal agencies, non-governmental
  organizations, private-sector entities, and the
  first responders and emergency management
• DHS Office of Grants Training coordinated
  development with State, local, and tribal
  organizations
• Associations included IACP, IAFC, NACo, FOP,
  NEMA
• NIMS released in March 2004
• NRP released in January 2005

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NIMS Key Concepts

• Framework for interoperability and compatibility
• Flexibility
• Consistent, flexible, and adjustable national
  framework
• Applicable regardless of incident cause, size,
  location, or complexity.
• Standardization
• Standard organizational structures
• Key to interoperability
• Ongoing support NIMS Integration Center

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NIMS Components

• Command and Management
• Incident Command System
• Multi-agency Coordination Systems
• Public Information Systems
• Preparedness
• Resource Management
• Communications and Information Management
• Supporting Technologies
• Ongoing Management and Maintenance

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What does NIMS look like?

• Common incident management doctrine, practices,
  and principles to plan, protect, respond, and
  recover
• Use of ICS to organize and manage incidents

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Key Components of ICS
Common Terminology
Modular organization
Unified Command Structure
Consolidated Action Plan
Manageable Span-of-Control
Comprehensive Resource Management
Pre-designated Incident Facilities
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What does NIMS look like? (Continued)

• Response operations capable of expanding to
  integrate additional, outside resources
• Ability to order and track resources using common
  terminology
• Staging and allocation plans for equipment,
  supplies, and aid
• Effective communications among responders, EOCs,
  and the public

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Phased Implementation

• Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 October 1, 2004- Sept. 30,
  2005
• Sept 2004 letter to Governors
• Initial requirements for States
• Suggested actions for local jurisdictions
• States self-certify compliance with minimum FY 05
  requirements
• FY 2006 October 1, 2005- Sept. 30, 2006
• Sept 2005 letter to the Governors
• Matrix with State/Territory requirements
• Matrix with Local/Tribal requirements
• FY 2007 and out-years October 1, 2006
• Full NIMS compliance required for all Federal
  preparedness assistance
• Update, improve, maintain system
• Leverages all federal preparedness
  funding/resources to support capability building
  at the State and local levels

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Implementation and Compliance
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NIMS State and Local Compliance in FY 2005

• States must
• Leverage funding from all federal grant programs
• Institutionalize Incident Command System
• Incorporate NIMS into Emergency Operations Plans
• Incorporate NIMS into training, exercises
• Promote Intrastate mutual aid agreements
• Provide Technical assistance to locals
• Develop strategies to implement the NIMS
• State, local, and tribal jurisdictions should
• Complete EMI Course NIMS Introduction (IS-700)
• Formally recognize NIMS through Executive Order
  or
• Legislation
• Establish NIMS baseline (NIMCAST)
• Institutionalize use of ICS
• Develop state and local strategies to implement
  the NIMS

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States A Critical Role

• Establish a statewide infrastructure to support
  NIMS implementation (LPG Grant-Regional Funds)
• Encourage and support a regional approach to
  implementation (Regional H.S. Councils)
• Establish a planning process to ensure NIMS
  implementation (NAG)
• Mechanisms to communicate NIMS requirements to
  locals
• Measure progress and facilitate reporting of NIMS
  implementation

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FY 2006 State Requirements

• Incorporates and builds upon FY 2005 requirements
• New Requirements State Adoption and
  Infrastructure
• Monitor formal adoption of NIMS by tribal and
  local jurisdictions
• Establish a planning process to ensure
  communication and implementation of NIMS
  statewide (including local and tribal
  jurisdictions)
• Designate a single POC to coordinate NIMS
  implementation
• Ensure federal preparedness funding is linked to
  NIMS implementation
• Include NIMS implementation in audit reviews of
  federal preparedness funds
• New Requirements Command and Management
• Manage all incidents with ICS
• Support incidents through integrated multi-agency
  coordination systems
• Institutionalize (through planning and training)
  NIMS Public Information System

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FY 2006 State Requirements (Continued)

• New Requirements Preparedness Planning
• Establish NIMS baseline against FY 05 and FY 06
  requirements
• Revise and update plans and SOPs to include NIMS
  and NRP
• New Requirements Preparedness Training
• Leverage training facilities to coordinate and
  deliver NIMS training
• IS-800 NRP An Introduction training
• ICS 100 and ICS 200 Training
• New Requirements Preparedness Exercises
• Incorporate NIMS into State/regional exercises
• Participate in all-hazards exercise program based
  on NIMS
• Incorporate corrective actions into plans and
  procedures

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FY 2006 State Requirements (Continued)

• New Requirements Resource Management
• Inventory State response assets using resource
  typing
• Develop state plans for resources in NRP
  Catastrophic Incident Annex/Supplement
• Ensure relevant standards are incorporated into
  acquisition programs
• New Requirements Communication and Information
  Management
• Apply standardized and consistent terminology
  (Plain English commands)

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FY 2006 Local Requirements

• FY 2005 shoulds are musts in FY 2006
• Small and/or rural jurisdictions may benefit from
  a regional approach to implementation
• Requirements Community Adoption
• Formally adopt NIMS
• Requirements Command and Management
• Manage all incidents with ICS
• Support incidents through integrated multi-agency
  coordination systems
• Communicate public information during an incident
  through a Joint Information System and Joint
  Information Center

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FY 2006 Local Requirements (Continued)

• Requirements Preparedness Planning
• Establish NIMS baseline against FY 05 and FY 06
  requirements (NIMCAST)
• Coordinate all federal preparedness funding to
  implement NIMS
• Revise and update plans and SOPs to incorporate
  NIMS
• Participate in and promote intrastate and
  interagency mutual aid
• Requirements Preparedness Training
• IS-700 NIMS An Introduction training
• IS-800 NRP An Introduction training
• ICS 100 and ICS 200 Training

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FY 2006 Local Requirements (Continued)

• Requirements Preparedness Exercises
• Incorporate NIMS/ICS into all tribal, local, and
  regional training and exercises
• Participate in all-hazards exercise program based
  on NIMS
• Incorporate corrective actions into plans and
  procedures
• Requirements Resource Management
• Inventory community assets using resource typing
• Ensure relevant standards are incorporated into
  acquisition programs

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Training Who needs to take what?

• IS-700 NIMS An Introduction
• All personnel with a direct role in emergency
  preparedness, incident management, or response
• IS-800 NRP An Introduction
• All local emergency managers or personnel whose
  primary responsibility is emergency management
• ICS-100 Introduction to ICS
• All local and private sector personnel at the
  entry level, first line supervisor level, middle
  management level, and command and general staff
  level of emergency management operations
• ICS-200 Basic ICS
• All local and private sector personnel at the
  first line supervisor level, middle management
  level, and command and general staff level of
  emergency management operations

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IS-700 NIMS An Introduction

• All personnel with a direct role in emergency
  preparedness, incident management or response
  must complete this training.
• IS-700 NIMS An Introduction is a Web-based
  awareness level course that explains NIMS
  components, concepts and principles. Although it
  is designed to be taken online as an interactive
  Web-course, course materials may be downloaded
  and used in a group or classroom setting. Answer
  sheets may be obtained from the Emergency
  Management Institute by calling the EMI
  Independent Study Office at 301-447-1256. To
  obtain the IS700 course materials or take the
  course online go to http//training.fema.gov/emiwe
  b/IS/is700.asp. More than 675,000 persons have
  completed this course.

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IS-800 NRP An Introduction

All local emergency managers or personnel whose
primary responsibility is emergency management
must complete must this training. IS-800
National Response Plan (NRP) An Introduction is
a Web-based awareness level course that
introduces the key elements of the National
Response Plan so that its implementation can be
supported at all levels of government.
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IS-800 NRP An Introduction

The course is designed to be taken online as an
interactive Web-course course materials may be
downloaded and used in a group or classroom
setting. Answer sheets may be obtained from the
Emergency Management Institute by calling the EMI
Independent Study Office at 301-447-1256. To
obtain the IS800 course materials or take the
course online go to http//training.fema.gov/emiwe
b/IS/is800.asp. More than 65,000 persons have
completed this course.
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ICS 100 200 Training

The NIMS Integration Center recognizes that many
operational aspects of NIMS, including ICS
training, are available through state and local
agencies. It is not necessary that the training
requirements be met through a federal source.
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ICS Training

The NIMS Integration Center recognizes that
many Emergency management/response personnel who
have already been trained in ICS do not need
retraining if their pervious training is
consistent with DHS standards.
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Who Should Take ICS 100 200 Training in FY 2006?

All Federal, State, territorial, tribal, local,
private sector and non-governmental personnel at
the entry level, first line supervisor level,
middle management level, and command and general
staff level of emergency management operations
must complete ICS-100 level training. All
Federal, State, territorial, tribal, local,
private sector and non-governmental personnel at
the first line supervisor level, middle
management level, and command and general staff
level of emergency management operations must
complete ICS-200 level training.
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NIMS Training Guidelines

• Slides that follow outline the required FY
  2006 NIMS Training for Federal, State, Local,
  Tribal, Private Sector, and Non-Governmental
  personnel for the following audiences
• Entry Level First Responders Disaster Workers
• First Line Supervisors
• Middle Management
• Command and General Staff

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NIMS Training GuidelinesEntry Level First
Responders Disaster Workers

• Audience
• Emergency Medical Service Personnel
• Firefighters
• Hospital Staff
• Law Enforcement Personnel
• Public Health Personnel
• Public Works/Utility Personnel
• Skilled Support Personnel
• Other emergency management response, support,
  volunteers personnel at all levels

• Required Training
• FEMA IS-700 NIMS, An Introduction
• ICS-100 Introduction to ICS or equivalent

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NIMS Training GuidelinesFirst Line Supervisors

• Audience
• First line supervisors, single resource
  leaders, field supervisors, and other emergency
  management response personnel that require a
  higher level of ICS/NIMS Training

• Required Training
• FEMA IS-700 NIMS, An Introduction
• ICS-100 Introduction to ICS or equivalent
• ICS-200 Basic ICS or equivalent

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NIMS Training GuidelinesMiddle Management

• Audience
• Middle management including strike team
  leaders, task force leaders, division/group
  supervisors, branch directors, and multi-agency
  coordination system/emergency operations center
  staff.

• Required Training
• FEMA IS-700 NIMS, An Introduction
• FEMA IS-800 NRP, An Introduction
• ICS-100 Introduction to ICS or equivalent
• ICS-200 Basic ICS or equivalent
• ICS-300 Intermediate ICS or equivalent (FY07
  Requirement)

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NIMS Training GuidelinesCommand General Staff

• Audience
• Command and general staff, select department
  heads with multi-agency coordination system
  responsibilities, area commanders, emergency
  managers, and multi-agency coordination
  system/EOC managers.

• Required Training
• FEMA IS-700 NIMS, An Introduction
• FEMA IS-800 NRP, An Introduction
• ICS-100 Introduction to ICS or equivalent
• ICS-200 Basic ICS or equivalent
• ICS-300 Intermediate ICS or equivalent (FY07
  Requirement)
• ICS-400 Advanced ICS or equivalent (FY07
  Requirement)

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The NIMS Integration Center (NIC)

• Strategic direction for and oversight of the NIMS
  and the NRP
• Services all federal departments and agencies, as
  well as State, territorial, local, and tribal
  jurisdictions
• Supports NIMS implementation through
• Mutual Aid, Resource Management, Credentialing
• NIMS National Standard Training Curriculum
• Standards identification
• Guidance and publications
• Compliance and evaluation tools (NIMCAST)
• NRP Strategic Direction and Coordination

Private Sector
Federal
Local
State
Volunteer
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The NIMS Integration Center

• Support NIMS implementation through (continued)
• NIMS Advisory Committee
• NIMS EOP Guidance for States, Locals
• NIMS Tools and Templates (Executive Order,
  Federal Plan)
• NIMS Communications
• NIMS Alerts
• NIMS Frequently Asked Questions
• NIMS Web Site www.fema.gov/nims

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The NIMS Integration Center

• Copies of the NIMS document
• Call FEMA at 1-800-480-2520, press Option 4, and
  ask for FEMA 501, National Incident Management
  System.
• Download from NIMS Web site www.fema.gov/nims
• Contact the NIC
• Ask the NIMS Integration Center
  NIMS-Integration-Center_at_dhs.gov
• Call the NIMS Integration Center 202-646-3850

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Commonwealth NIMS Website

• http//www.mass.gov/eops
• Click on Funding and Training Opportunities
  click on Homeland Security click on Training
  Opportunities

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Questions?