# Presentation: 702456

## Kansas City, Missouri 

**Presentation to the NWSRFS International Workshop**
**October 22, 2003**
**Phil Kirk**
**Mitigation Division **
**FEMA Region VII**
**Kansas City, Missouri**** **

## FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY 

**FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY **
**Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate **

## FEMA’s MISSION

***To reduce loss of life and property and protect our nation's critical infrastructure from all types of hazards through a comprehensive, risk-based, emergency management program of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.***

**FEMA’s MISSION**

## Today...

**Today...**

## FEMA’s AUTHORITY

-   **Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and****	****Emergency ****	****Assistance Act (Public Law****	****93-288, as amended)**
**  ****Federal Response Plan**** supports ****	****implementation of the Stafford Disaster****	****	****Relief and Emergency Assistance Act**
**  ****Defines the federal government’s role to****	****	****provide response, recovery, and mitigation****	****assistance to support state and local****	****	****government disaster efforts**

**FEMA’s AUTHORITY**

## Purpose

*Federal Response Plan **(FRP)*

**Purpose**

**“****To coordinate all federal resource capability into one consolidated response mechanism for assisting disaster-affected victims and communities.”**

## The FRP...

*Federal Response Plan **(FRP)*

**The FRP...**

**  ****Coordinates response and ****	****recovery activities of 27 signed****	****federal agencies**
**  ****Supports local and state actions****	****	****in response to a disaster**
**  ****Actually implements the Robert T. ****	****Stafford Disaster Relief and ****	****Emergency Assistance Act **

## The FRP...

*Federal Response Plan **(FRP)*

**Describes federal response ****	****to major disasters that ****	****overwhelm state and ****	****local capabilities**
**Organizes disaster response ****	****into 12 functional areas, ****	****with primary and support ****	****agencies****	****	****	****	**
**Is the national disaster ****	****response framework**

***The FRP...***

## Federal Response Plan (FRP)

*Federal Response Plan **(FRP)*

_**ESF-1 Transportation**_
**Department of Transportation**
_**ESF-2 Communications**_
**National Communications System**
_**ESF-3 Public Works and Engineering**_
**Department of Defense/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers**
_**ESF-4 Firefighting**_
**Department of Agriculture/Forest Service**
_**ESF-5 Information and Planning**_
**Federal Emergency Management Agency**
_**ESF-6 Mass Care**_
**American Red Cross**

_**ESF-7 Resource Support**_
**General Services Administration**
_**ESF-8 Health and Medical Services**_
**Department of Health and Human Services**
_**ESF-9 Urban Search and Rescue**_
**Federal Emergency Management Agency**
_**ESF-10  Hazardous Materials**_
**Environmental Protection Agency**
_**ESF-11 Food**_
**Department of Agriculture/Food and Nutrition Service**
_**ESF-12 Energy**_
**Department of Energy**

**The 12 ESFs**

## Federal Response Plan (FRP)

*Federal Response Plan **(FRP)*

**Anatomy of a Disaster Declaration**

## DISASTER RESPONSE PROCESS

**DISASTER RESPONSE PROCESS**

## Federal Response Plan (FRP)

*Federal Response Plan **(FRP)*

**FEMA coordinates the federal government’s disaster response and recovery efforts by building partnerships**

## How Response is Tailored

*Federal Response Plan **(FRP)*

**How Response is Tailored**

**Consequence management response is tailored to state and local needs **
**Rapid Needs Assessment**
**Action Planning **
**Time-Phased Force and Deployment Data    (TPFDD) Execution **
**Mission Assignments**
**Movement Coordination**

## Federal Response Plan (FRP)

*Federal Response Plan **(FRP)*

**Mission Assignment Process****Requests for Assistance (RFAs)**

**Local Government**
**State Government**
**FEMA**
**(consults with primary agencies)**
**FRP Primary Agency**
**(consults with**** ****support agencies)**

**Identify requirements exceeding **_**local**_** capability**
**Identify requirements exceeding **_**state**_** capability**
**Determine exact federal support needed, and funding              (state cost share may apply)**
**Validate missions, secure individual agency approval,     and execute**

## The Federal Response Plan...

*Federal Response Plan **(FRP)*

**The Federal Response Plan...**

**Coordinates response and recovery activities by federal agencies**
**Supports local and state actions in response to a disaster**

## DHS/FEMA Assets Nationwide

**DHS/FEMA Assets Nationwide**

## DHS/FEMA Assets Nationwide

- MERS – Mobile Emergency Response Support
- TLC – Territorial Logistics Center
- NPSC – National Processing Service Center

## Urban Search and Rescue Teams

**Urban Search and Rescue Teams**

## Emergency Preparedness and Response

**Emergency Preparedness and Response**

- FEMA has been absorbed into this division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Will retain the FEMA name
- Preparedness, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery still remain main mission of this division
- Direct the federal response to natural disasters, as well as chemical, biological, or radiological incidents

## Questions?

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**Questions?**