# Presentation: 261082

## National Incident Management System and National Response Plan

**Presenter:**
**Mr. Bruce Belt**

## Purpose

- Discuss NIMS and the NRP
- Provide summary of key components of the NIMS and NRP
- Provide summary of NRP development process

## Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5

- Directed Secretary, DHS to develop and administer:
**National Incident Management System** (NIMS)
- Core set of concepts, principles and terminology for incident command and multiagency coordination.
**National Response Plan** (NRP)
- All-discipline, all-hazards plan.

- “...a consistent nationwide approach for Federal, State, tribal, and local governments to work effectively and efficiently together to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause, size, or complexity...”

- National Incident Management SystemNIMS

## NIMS:  What It Is / What It’s Not

- NIMS is...
- Core set of:
- Doctrine
- Concepts
- Principles
- Terminology
- Organizational processes
- Applicable to all hazards

- NIMS is _not_...
- An operational incident management plan.
- A resource allocation plan.
- A terrorism / WMD-specific plan.
- Designed to address international events.

## Key Concepts / Ongoing Support

- Flexibility
- Applicable regardless of incident cause, size, location, or complexity.
- Standardization
- Key to interoperability.
- Working on Standards initiative with Office of Science and Technology.
- Ongoing support:  _NIMS Integration Center_

## NIMS Components

- Command and Management
- Preparedness
- Resource Management
- Communications and Information Management
- Supporting Technologies
- Ongoing Management and Maintenance

## NIMS Information

- NIMS Integration Center
- 500 C Street, SW
- Washington, DC 20472
- (202) 646-3850
- NIMS-Integration-Center@dhs.gov
- web page: _[www.fema.gov/nims](http://www.fema.gov/nims)_
- 	 NIMS Awareness Training
- _[http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/is700.asp](http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/is700.asp)_

## Relationship:  NIMS and NRP

- National Incident Management System
- (NIMS)

**Local**
- Response

**State**
- Response or Support

**Federal**
- Response or Support

- NIMS aligns command, control, organization structure, terminology, communication protocols, resources and resource-typing for synchronization of response efforts at all echelons of government.

- _National Response Plan __(NRP)_

- Incident

- Activated forincidents of national significance.

- Resources, knowledge,
-  and abilities from
- Federal departments & agencies.

- DHS integrates
- and applies Federal
- resources both pre and
-  post incident.

- Used for all events

## Construction of the NRP

_**Fully Incorporates**_
- Federal Response Plan
- Domestic Terrorism Concept of Ops Plan
- Federal Radiological Emergency Response Plan
- Initial NRP
- Other national-level contingency plans

** **_**Incorporates Key INRP Concepts**_
- Homeland Security Ops Center (HSOC)
- Interagency Incident Management Group (IIMG)
- Principal Federal Official (PFO)
- Joint Field Office (JFO)

**Foundation**:  National Incident Management System (NIMS)

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## Organization of the NRP

**Emergency Support Function Annexes**

**Appendixes**

**Incident Annexes**

**Base Plan**

- Organization of the NRP

**Support Annexes**

- Groups capabilities & resources into functions that are most likely needed during an incident (e.g., Transportation, Firefighting, Mass Care, etc.)

- Describes common processes and specific administrative requirements (e.g., Public Affairs, Financial Management, Worker Safety & Health, etc.)

- Concept of Operations, Coordinating Structures, Roles and Responsibilities, Definitions, etc.

- Outlines core procedures, roles and responsibilities for specific contingencies (e.g., Bio, Radiological, Cyber, HAZMAT Spills)

- Glossary, Acronyms, Authorities, and Compendium of National Interagency Plans

## Scope/Applicability

**Incidents of National Significance (HSPD-5 Criteria):**
- When another Federal department or agency has requested DHS assistance
- When State/local capabilities are overwhelmed and Federal assistance is requested
- When an incident substantially involves more than one Federal department/agency
- When the Secretary has been directed by the President to assume incident management responsibilities

## Concept of Operations      

**Incidents handled at lowest possible jurisdictional level**
**Consultation/coordination with other departments/agencies to:**
- Assess national implications
- Determine need for full or partial NRP activation
**Multiagency coordinating structures activated to provide standardized approach for implementing Federal responsibilities:**
- Direct implementation of Federal authorities
- Federal support to State, local and tribal governments
- Federal-to-Federal support
- Proactive response to catastrophic incidents
**Coordinating structures provide national capability**
- Ability to address impacts to the rest of the country, execute immediate nation-wide actions to avert or prepare for subsequent events, and manage multiple incidents

## Emergency Support Function (ESFs)

- ESF 1: Transportation
- ESF 2: Communications
- ESF 3: Public Works & Engineering
- ESF 4: Firefighting
- ESF 5: Emergency Management
- ESF 6: Mass Care, Housing & Human Services
- ESF 7: Resource Support
- ESF 8: Public Health and Medical Services

- ESF 9: Urban Search & Rescue
- ESF 10: Oil & Hazardous Materials
- ESF 11: Agriculture & Natural Resources
- ESF 12: Energy
- ESF 13: Public Safety & Security
- ESF 14: Long-term Community Recovery and Mitigation
- ESF 15: External Affairs

## Support Annexes

- Financial Management
- International Coordination
- Logistics Management
- Private Sector Coordination
- Public Affairs
- Science and Technology
- Tribal Relations
- Volunteer and Donations Management
- Worker Safety and Health

## Incident Annexes

- Biological Incident
- Catastrophic Incident
- Cyber Incident
- Food and Agriculture Incident
- Nuclear/Radiological Incident
- Oil and Hazardous Materials Incident
- Terrorism Incident Law Enforcement and Investigation

## Stakeholder Review

**Federal Input through HSC**
-  Approximately two dozen contributing agencies
**State & Local Government/ First Responder Associations**
-  Approximately two dozen contributing organizations (e.g. Fraternal Order of Police, Int’l Association of Emergency Managers, Int’l Association of Fire Chiefs, Nat’l League of Cities, Nat’l Governors Association, etc.)
**Private Sector/NGOs**
-  Approximately one dozen contributing organizations (e.g. American Red Cross, Business Execs for Nat’l Security, US Chamber of Commerce, Nat’l Business Roundtable, Save a Life Foundation, etc.)

## Illustration of Incident Management Hierarchy

- Local Incident Operations

- Regional Incident Operations

- National Incident Management

- RRCC

- Incident of National Significance

- Joint Field Office

- Emergency Support Function Liaisons

- ESFs

- Regional Resource Coordination Center

- Federal Regional Center

- HSOC

- IIMG

- NRCC

- National Response Coordination Center

-  Homeland Security Operations Center

- Interagency Incident Mgmt Group

- Sec, DHS

- ESFs

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