NIMS Activities for FYs 2005-2007 March 2007 Below summarizes all on-going NIMS Implementation Activities for FYs 2005-2007 as prescribed by the NIMS Integration Center. All jurisdictions—State, territorial, tribal, and local governments—must remember that all previous year’s requirements remain on-going activities in the present fiscal year and must continue to support these activities required or underway in order to achieve NIMS compliance. STATE AND TERRITORY NIMS IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES For FY 2007: 1. Designate a singe point of contact within each of the jurisdiction’s Departments and Agencies 2. Monitor and assess outreach and implementation of NIMS Requirements 3. Establish public information system to gather, verify, coordinate, and disseminate information during an incident 4. Complete training—ICS-300, ICS-400 5. Validate that inventory of response assets conforms to FEMA Resource Typing Standards 6. Utilize response asset inventory for Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) requests, exercises, and actual events 7. Develop systems and processes to ensure that incident managers at all levels share a common operating picture of an incident For FY 2006: 8. Adopted NIMS for all government departments and agencies; as well as promote and encourage NIMS adoption by associations, utilities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private sector incident management and response organizations 9. Monitor formal adoption of NIMS by all tribal and local jurisdictions 10. Establish a planning process to ensure the communication and implementation of NIMS requirements, providing a means for measuring progress and facilitate reporting 11. Designate a single point of contact to serve as the principal coordinator for NIMS implementation 12. To the extent permissible by law, ensure that federal preparedness funding to State and territorial agencies and tribal and local jurisdictions is linked to satisfactory progress in meeting FY2006 NIMS implementation requirements 13. To the extent permissible by state and territorial law and regulations, audit agencies and review organizations routinely included NIMS implementation requirements in all audits associated with federal preparedness grant funds, validating the self-certification process for NIMS compliance 14. Manage all emergency incidents and pre-planned (recurring/special) events in accordance with ICS organizational structures, doctrine and procedures, as defined in NIMS. ICS implementation must include the consistent application of Incident Action Planning and Common Communications Plans 15. Coordinate and support emergency incident and event management through the development and use of integrated multi-agency coordination systems , i.e. develop and maintain connectivity capability between local Incident Command Posts (ICP), local 911 Centers, local Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), the state EOC and regional and/ federal EOCs and /NRP organizational elements. 16. Institutionalize, within the framework of ICS, the Public Information System (PIS), comprising of the Joint Information System (JIS) and a Joint Information Center (JIC). 17. Establish NIMS baseline against the FY 2005 and FY 2006 implementation requirements 18. Develop and implement a system to coordinate and leverage all federal preparedness funding to implement the NIMS 19. Revise and update plans and SOPs to incorporate NIMS and National Response Plan (NRP) components, principles and policies, to include planning, training, response, exercises, equipment, evaluation and corrective actions 20. Participate in and promote intrastate and interagency mutual aid agreements, to include agreements with the private sector and non-governmental organizations 21. Leverage training facilities to coordinate and deliver NIMS training requirements in conformance with the NIMS National Standard Curriculum 22. Complete training—IS-700 NIMS: An Introduction, Complete IS-800 NRP: An Introduction; ICS-100 and ICS-200 23. Incorporate NIMS/ICS into training and exercises. 24. Participate in an all-hazard exercise program based on NIMS that involves responders from multiple disciplines and multiple jurisdictions 25. Incorporate corrective actions into preparedness and response plans and procedures 26. Inventory response assets to conform to FEMA Resource Typing standards 27. Develop state plans for the receipt and distribution of resources as outlined in the National Response Plan (NRP) Catastrophic Incident Annex and Catastrophic Incident Supplement 28. To the extent permissible by state and local law, ensure that relevant national standards and guidance to achieve equipment, communication and data interoperability are incorporated into state and local acquisition programs 29. Apply standardized and consistent terminology, including the establishment of plain language communications standards across public safety secto For FY 2005: 30. Support the successful adoption and implementation of the NIMS 31. To the extent permissible by law, ensure that Federal preparedness funding, including DHS Homeland Security Grant Program and the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI), support NIMS implementation at the State and local levels Incorporate NIMS into existing training programs and exercises 32. Coordinate and provide technical assistance to local entities regarding NIMS institutionalized used of ICS 33. Incorporate NIMS into Emergency Operations Plans (EOP) 34. Promote intrastate mutual aid agreements, to include agreements with private sector and non-governmental organizations TRIBAL NATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT NIMS IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES For FY 2007: 1. Designate a single point of contact to serve as the principal coordinator for NIMS implementation 2. Establish public information system to gather, verify, coordinate, and disseminate information during an incident 3. Complete training—ICS-300, ICS-400 4. Validate that inventory of response assets conforms to FEMA Resource Typing Standards; 5. Utilize response asset inventory for Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) requests, exercises, and actual events 6. Develop systems and processes to ensure that incident managers at all levels share a common operating picture of an incident For FY 2006: 7. Adopted NIMS for all government departments and agencies; as well as promote and encourage NIMS adoption by associations, utilities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private sector incident management and response organizations 8. Manage all emergency incidents and pre-planned (recurring/special) events in accordance with ICS organizational structures, doctrine and procedures, as defined in NIMS. ICS implementation must include the consistent application of Incident Action Planning and Common Communications Plans 9. Coordinate and support emergency incident and event management through the development and use of integrated multi-agency coordination systems , i.e. develop and maintain connectivity capability between local Incident Command Posts (ICP), local 911 Centers, local Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), the state EOC and regional and/ federal EOCs and /NRP organizational elements. 10. Institutionalize, within the framework of ICS, the Public Information System (PIS), comprising of the Joint Information System (JIS) and a Joint Information Center (JIC). 11. Establish NIMS baseline against the FY 2005 and FY 2006 implementation requirements 12. Develop and implement a system to coordinate and leverage all federal preparedness funding to implement the NIMS 13. Revise and update plans and SOPs to incorporate NIMS and National Response Plan (NRP) components, principles and policies, to include planning, training, response, exercises, equipment, evaluation and corrective actions 14. Participate in and promote intrastate and interagency mutual aid agreements, to include agreements with the private sector and non-governmental organizations 15. Complete training—IS-700 NIMS: An Introduction, Complete IS-800 NRP: An Introduction; ICS-100 and ICS-200 16. Participate in an all-hazard exercise program based on NIMS that involves responders from multiple disciplines and multiple jurisdictions 17. Incorporate corrective actions into preparedness and response plans and procedures. 18. Inventory response assets to conform to FEMA Resource Typing standards 19. To the extent permissible by state and local law, ensure that relevant national standards and guidance to achieve equipment, communication and data interoperability are incorporated into state and local acquisition programs 20. Apply standardized and consistent terminology, including the establishment of plain language communications standards across public safety sector For FY 2005: 21. Support the successful adoption and implementation of the NIMS 22. Promote intrastate mutual aid agreements, to include agreements with private sector and non-governmental organizations 23. Incorporate NIMS into Emergency Operations Plans (EOP) ###