Fact SheetMarch 2007
NIMS Integration Center
202-646-3850

IS-800A1 NATIONAL RESPONSE PLAN: WHO MUST TAKE IT, WHAT IT COVERS

All Federal, State, Territorial, Tribal and Local emergency managers or personnel whose primary responsibility is emergency management must complete this training. 

NOTE: If you have already taken IS-800, you do not have to retake it. This will be true when the course is changed after the National Response Plan is updated on or about June 2007. 

Specifically, officials who must take the course include:

* Personnel in Federal departments and agencies with emergency management responsibilities under the NRP;

* Officials in State and Territorial governments with emergency management responsibilities, personnel from emergency management agencies, and personnel from agencies who support and interact with the NRP's 15 Emergency Support Functions (ESF); and

* Officials in Tribal entities and local jurisdictions with overall emergency management responsibilities as dictated by law or ordinance, officials with overall emergency management responsibilities through delegation, and officials primarily involved in emergency planning.

IS-800a 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. 

To obtain the IS-800a course materials or take the course online go to http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/is800a.asp

The course is designed to be taken online or course materials may be downloaded and used in a group or classroom setting.  Answer sheets may be obtained by calling the EMI Independent Study Office at (301) 447-1256 or ordered online at: http://www.training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/ansreq.asp 


Supersedes Fact Sheet, NIMS IS-800 NRP, An Introduction WHO MUST TAKE IT, WHAT IT COVERS, dated Dec 2005
1 IS-800a replaces IS-800.  The answer sheets for the original course will still be available and versions of the Optscan form for this course will be graded accordingly.



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