North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 14B - Public Safety › Chapter 03 - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT › Section .0400 - NORTH CAROLINA SEARCH AND RESCUE SYSTEM › Section 03 .0402 - ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
As used in this Section the following abbreviations and terms
				  mean:
(1) "Activation" means the
				status of a system resource placed at the direction, control, and funding of
				NCEM as part of the NC SAR System.
(2) "All-hazards Disaster Response Model"
				means a response methodology where system resources provide all applicable
				capability to respond to any threat or hazard that is impacting the State or is
				forecasted to impact the State as determined by the NCEM Director.
(3) "Authority Having Jurisdiction" (AHJ)
				means those local, state, or federal entities having a duty to act over a
				specific aspect of search and rescue in a specific geographic area.
(4) "Contract Response Team" means a regional
				all-hazards disaster response team as defined in
				G.S.
				166A-65 capable of conducting urban search
				and rescue, swiftwater rescue, and wide area search operations with
				self-sustaining logistical support allowing for responses into disaster
				areas.
(5) "County to County Mutual
				Aid" means public safety resource sharing between local governments under the
				conditions of the NC Statewide Mutual Aid Agreement or another similar
				agreement between local governments.
(6) "Federal Emergency Management Agency"
				(FEMA) means an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security
				with the responsibility to coordinate the federal response to
				Presidentially-declared disasters that has occurred in the United
				States.
(7) "FEMA Public Assistance
				Program" means a federal reimbursement grant program that provides federal
				funding to help communities respond to and recover from disasters.
(8) "Functionally equivalent" means an item
				or group of items that can be used in the same basic manner as another item or
				items to perform a task to the same standard.
(9) "Local Emergency Management Coordinator"
				(LEMC) means the County Emergency Management Coordinator as defined in
				G.S.
				166A-19.15 who is responsible for all local
				disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities in a specific
				county.
(10) "NC All-Hazards
				Incident Management Team" (NCAHIMT) mean the North Carolina Division of
				Emergency Management's program responsible for supporting local and state
				incident management during disaster response activities.
(11) "North Carolina Search and Rescue
				System" (NC SAR System) means the NC Search and Rescue Program established in
				Article 6 of Chapter 166A of the North Carolina General Statutes. The NC SAR
				System includes five individual programs: Urban Search and Rescue, Swiftwater
				Rescue, Helicopter Rescue, Mountain Rescue, and Wilderness Search and
				Rescue.
(12) "North Carolina Search
				and Rescue Team Advisory Committee" (NC SAR TAC) means an advisory committee
				established in Article 6 of Chapter 166A of the North Carolina General Statutes
				to advise the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety on
				the establishment of the North Carolina Search and Rescue System.
(13) "North Carolina Division of Emergency
				Management" (NCEM) means a division of the North Carolina Department of Public
				Safety established in
				G.S.
				143B-1000 with the responsibility to
				coordinate the mitigation, planning, preparedness, response, and recovery to a
				disaster or emergency that has or could is forecasted to occur in the State as
				determined by the NCEM Director.
(14) "North Carolina Emergency Management
				Operations Chief" (NCEM OSC) means the Assistant Director of Operations for the
				North Carolina Division of Emergency Management.
(15) "North Carolina Emergency Management
				Director" (NCEM Director) means the Director of the North Carolina Division of
				Emergency Management.
(16)
				"National Incident Management System" (NIMS) means a federal policy that
				provides a systematic, proactive approach guiding government agencies at all
				levels, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to work to
				prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of
				incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity, to reduce the
				loss of life or property and harm to the environment.
(17) "On-duty" means when a person is acting
				as an agent of their Sponsoring or Participating Agency or of the NC Division
				of Emergency Management as part of the NC Search and Rescue System.
(18) "Participating Agency" means an entity
				that assists a Sponsoring Agency with the formation of a search and rescue team
				by providing personnel or equipment.
(19) "Program costs" means training,
				equipment, personnel, or administrative expenses incurred by a Sponsoring or
				Participating Agency during activities of the NC SAR System.
(20) "Resource typing" means a document
				defining and categorizing, by capability, the system resources requested,
				deployed, and used in incidents.
(21) "Responsible Party" means the entity
				whose actions or inactions caused an event as determined by the authority
				having jurisdiction requiring system resources to respond and incur
				costs.
(22) "Sensitive information"
				means any information, to include audio recordings, images, and video
				recordings, obtained during an activation that has not been released to the
				public by the AHJ.
(23) "Specialty
				Rescue Team" means a group of response personnel who provide technical search
				and rescue capability as part of the North Carolina Search and Rescue System
				that is not a contract response team as defined in
				G.S.
				166A-65.
(24) "Sponsoring Agency" means a local or
				tribal unit of government or a corporation with an active response agreement
				with a local unit of government that organizes and coordinates a search and
				rescue team in the North Carolina Search and Rescue System. This entity serves
				as the lead agency for teams comprised of multiple agencies.
(25) "State Emergency Operations Plan" (SEOP)
				means a document maintained under the authority of
				G.S.
				166A-19.12(2) that details
				how the State of North Carolina will respond to a disaster or emergency
				requiring State assistance utilizing an All-Hazards Disaster Response
				Model.
(26) "State Mission
				Assignment" (State Mission) means a NCEM approved request for assistance to
				deploy system resources at the request of a local unit of government.
(27) "System agreements" means contracts,
				memoranda of agreements, or memoranda of understanding between NCEM and
				Contract Response Teams for the purposes of establishing and maintaining the NC
				SAR System.
(28) "System personnel"
				means human resources from a Contract Response or Specialty Rescue Team or
				human resources employed by the Division of Emergency Management with a
				responsibility for search and rescue response.
(29) "System resource" means personnel or
				equipment from a or specialty rescue team that is participating in the NC
				Search and Rescue System with the North Carolina Division of Emergency
				Management for search and rescue response.