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Overview Key Disaster Response Authorities Organization Structure Directorate Snapshot Response Divisions: Goals & Objectives Response Divisions' Assets

Key Disaster Response Authorities Stafford Act Homeland Security Act PKEMRA SRIA Stafford Act: gives FEMA responsibility for coordinating Federal government disaster response. Homeland Security Act: The Homeland Security Act of 2002 created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as an executive department of the United States. The Homeland Security Act consolidated component agencies, including FEMA, into the Department. Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act (PKEMRA): Gives FEMA the authority to lean forward and leverage the entire emergency management team in disaster response and recovery efforts. PKEMRA also requires that each federal agency with responsibilities under the National Response Framework (NRF) develop operational plans to ensure a coordinated federal response. Sandy Recovery Improvement Act: The law authorizes several significant changes to the way FEMA may deliver federal disaster assistance to survivors. Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) - 8 PPD-8: defines five preparedness mission areas, including: prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery. It mandates the development of policy and planning documents to guide the nation’s approach for ensuring and enhancing national preparedness. The National Planning Frameworks, which are part of the National Preparedness System, set the strategy and doctrine for building, sustaining, and delivering the core capabilities identified in the National Preparedness Goal. National Response Framework (NRF) NRF: a guide to how the nation responds to all types of disasters and emergencies. It is built on scalable, flexible and adaptable concepts identified in the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to align key roles and responsibilities across the nation. 2

Where Does Response Fit In? DHS FEMA Mission Support Bureau U.S. Fire Administration Office of Response and Recovery Response Directorate Recovery Directorate Logistics Directorate Field Operations Directorate Federal Insurance and Mitigation National Preparedness Directorate

Response Directorate Structure Assistant Administrator Disaster Emergency Communications Division Chemical, Biological, Radiological, & Nuclear Office Policy Office Planning and Exercise Division Operations Division Deputy Assistant Administrator

Response Directorate Vision Delivering coordinated and successful response operations in any environment across the nation. Mission Leading and coordinating efforts to maintain capabilities to respond to and stabilize effects of incidents regardless of hazard.

Response Major Divisions Operations Planning Disaster Emergency Communications Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Ops Plan DEC CBRN

Operations Goals & Objectives Stabilize – Provide the core Federal operational capabilities needed to stabilize a jurisdiction within 72 hours to save lives, minimize suffering, and protect property. Identify and Alert – Enhance FEMA’s ability to provide National warnings, notifications, activations, situational information and analyses to our partners and citizens to ensure effective response operations. Professionalize – Ensure the operational readiness of the operations cadre Operations Division teams, Watchstanders and the National Response Coordination Staff (NRCS) to support the whole community in response to all-hazard incidents through training, exercises, staffing, and equipping of personnel. Validate – Ensure key Headquarters planning efforts are achievable, in alignment with, and supported by current operational capabilities. Stabilize: Operations provides leadership, situational awareness, federal response capabilities, resource coordination and support to program offices at FEMA HQ and the regions. Identify & Alert: The division ensures the readiness of operations centers, National and Regional Response Coordination Centers, and National and Regional Watches to execute their missions.

Response Divisions’ Assets Mobile Emergency Response Support (MERS) – Provides self-sufficient, mobile communications, logistics, and operations capabilities required for the on-scene management of all-hazard disaster response activities. The National Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) Response System (The System) – Framework for organizing federal, state and local emergency responders into an integrated federal disaster response resource. Compromised of 28 US&R task forces and three Incident Support Teams A type 1 task force is made up of 70 multi-faceted, cross-trained personnel who serve in six major functional areas: search, rescue, medical, hazardous materials, logistics, planning. Domestic Emergency Support Team (DEST) & Consequence Management Coordination Unit (CMCU) DEST is a specialized, rapidly deployable interagency team providing expert guidance to the FBI and FEMA regarding crisis management. CMCU is a FEMA-led incident support team responsible for providing National-level consequence management expertise and decision support. US&R: The National US&R Response System (the System) is a framework for organizing federal, state and local emergency responders into an integrated federal disaster response resource. The System is deployed by FEMA to a disaster area to provide assistance in structural collapse rescue. There are 28 US&R task forces, and three Incident Support Teams located throughout the continental U.S. A type 1 task force is made up of 70 multi-faceted, cross-trained personnel who serve in six major functional areas: search, rescue, medical, hazardous materials (including Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives), logistics and planning. The System’s US&R task forces are capable of conducting search and rescue operations in all environments. DEST & CMCU: PPD-25 directs FEMA to establish policies, plans, exercises, and procedures through the DEST and CMCU. The DEST is a specialized, rapidly deployable interagency team providing expert guidance to the FBI and FEMA regarding crisis and consequence management capabilities during a credible threat of national significance; and, CMCU is FEMA-led incident support team responsible for providing national level consequence management expertise and decision support to the FEMA Administrator, the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Strategic Group, and the DEST during a PPD-25 credible threat or incident.

Led by the Unified Coordination Group Incident Management in the Field State & Federal Coordination through a Unified Coordination Group Joint Field Office Led by the Unified Coordination Group Operations Section Planning Section Logistics Section Finance and Administration Section Joint Field Office (JFO) Primary Federal incident management facility Unified Coordination Group (UCG) Federal and State representatives that lead JFO Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) Appointed by President to coordinate Federal support, member of the UCG State Coordinating Officer (SCO) Works with FCO to establish response priorities, member of the UCG Emergency Support Functions (ESF) Coordinate response support from across Federal government

Incident Management Assistance Teams (IMATs) Initial Federal presence; begin flow of Federal resources Liaison to State/local emergency managers Provide situational awareness and needs assessment Plan, train, and exercise with States IMAT Operational Concepts Arrive within 18-hrs of notice; self-sufficient for 48-hrs Permanent team members National IMAT (3 Total Type I Teams):* IMAT-East I & IMAT-East II (Herndon, VA) IMAT-West (Sacramento, CA) Regional IMAT (13 Total Type 2 Teams): 1 per region / 2x in regions IV, VI, IX IMAT Mission: Support local governments in all-hazards planning and incident action planning Provide expertise in all emergency management functional areas Support states and other response organizations in an incident by establishing command, coordination, and communications Provide real-time situational awareness Establish initial FEMA presence and form nucleus of joint field office NATIONAL TEAMS: Response Directorate maintains Program Management and Operational Control of teams Teams are deployed via the NRCC REGIONAL TEAMS: Response Directorate maintains Program Management to ensure consistency in qualifications, equipment, training, typing, and credentialing of teams Regional Administrator maintains Operational Control and Day-to-Day Oversight Situations may require that OPCON revert to Headquarters Teams are deployed via the RRCC Goal: Once operational, Regional IMATs may be required to be deployed outside of their respective Region independently or to augment National team 10 11

Transition to New Administration Appointment of “Acting” personnel Estimated Timeline for full transition Operational expectations / “Steady State” Unified Coordination Group and complex response

Summary Think Smart...Think Big…Go Big…Go Fast Saving and sustaining lives is our number one priority, no matter the scale and magnitude of the crisis. We must stabilize the event within the first 72 hours. A catastrophic event requires that we are prepared to respond in non- traditional ways, well beyond current Federal and State planning. Objectives must be focused on outcomes versus outputs. Time is our biggest enemy, and our approach must focus on preparing and fully empowering impacted emergency managers communities, survivors, and all of society-NGOs, FBOs, social & fraternal organizations. It is the coordinated actions of the entire response community, not the effects of any single organization, that determine the success or failure of response operations. Think Smart...Think Big…Go Big…Go Fast