Item 35 - FY 2022 Emergency Management Performance Grant

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EMPG Program Appendix | 2023 Page H-3 o Building a capability with EMPG Program funding; or o Sustaining a capability with EMPG Program funding. Building and Sustaining Core Capabilities Recipients must describe how proposed EMPG Program-funded projects will close capability gaps or sustain capabilities identified through the THIRA/SPR process, particularly SPR Step 2 (see Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 201, Third Edition), or other relevant information sources that identify capability needs. See EMPG Program Work Plan section for additional guidance and requirements. National Incident Management System (NIMS) Implementation EMPG Program recipients and subrecipients are required to implement NIMS. NIMS guides all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and the private sector to work together to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from incidents. NIMS provides stakeholders across the whole community with the shared vocabulary, systems, and processes to successfully deliver the capabilities described in the National Preparedness System. EMPG Program recipients must use standardized resource management concepts for resource typing, credentialing, and an inventory to facilitate the effective identification, dispatch, deployment, tracking, and recovery of resources. EMPG Program funds may be used for NIMS implementation; specifically, to meet the requirements described in the NIMS Implementation Objectives for Local, State, Tribal, and Territorial Jurisdictions. This document should be used as a guide for both identifying NIMS implementation objectives and needs and as a tool for evaluating NIMS compliance. Additional information about NIMS implementation is available at NIMS Implementation and Training. Reporting: •Recipients will answer questions in the applicable secondary NIMS assessment portion of the Unified Reporting Tool (URT) as part of a jurisdiction’s THIRA/SPR submission. This involves reporting on the status of the qualification system used within the jurisdiction and sub-jurisdictions, as outlined in the EMPG Program NOFO. •Reporting will also be through a review by the FEMA Regional NIMS Coordinators during annual technical assistance visits with the states, tribes, and territories within their regions. National Qualifications System (NQS) Implementation For FY 2023, as a post-award requirement, all recipients in the 50 states and District of Columbia must work towards achieving the Phase 1 NQS Implementation Objectives outlined in the table below and must, at a minimum, execute the Implementation Plan they developed last year as part of the Phase 0 NQS Implementation Objectives. Jurisdictions that began implementation in FY 2023 shall have designed and adopted organizational qualification system procedures, a certification program and credentialing standards for incident workforce personnel in alignment with the NIMS Guideline for the National Qualification System. All other jurisdictions (including territories and FY 2023 EMPG Program subrecipients) are required to work toward implementation of NQS by developing an Implementation Plan, using the FEMA- provided two-page template referenced in the table below. For all states and territories, the following requirements shall apply: •At a minimum, only EMPG Program-funded deployable personnel, as determined by each recipient organization, will be required to meet NQS certification requirements.