“PMEF identification is an iterative process performed by each department and agency in coordination with the NCC. In order to identify and analyze PMEFs, the following actions will take place…: (1) Upon MEF approval by each department or agency head, a joint effort between the NCC and each department or agency Continuity Coordinator and staff will result in a preliminary identification of PMEFs that potentially support NEFs. The joint effort will culminate in the department or agency’s submission of PMEF identification results to the NCC for further interagency analysis. (2) An interagency board (IAB), established by the NCC, conducts a review of submitted potential PMEFs and validates PMEFs relationship to the NEFs. A risk management methodology (i.e., BIA or BPA) will be used to ensure that the PMEFs are appropriate and relevant. (3) Upon confirmation that the IAB has determined that a department or agency’s MEF shall serve as a PMEF, each department and agency will revisit the prioritization of their MEF recovery timelines to ensure PMEF criticality. (4) The IAB will conduct a BPA to identify and map interagency PMEF processes, workflows, activities, expertise, systems, data, and facilities inherent to the interagency execution of each NEF. The BPA should also define the PMEF relationship to the NEF. In other words, the BPA will define how each NEF is executed via business process flow mapping (i.e., NEF serving as the “end product output” and interagency PMEF serving as the functional “inputs”). (5) The IAB must also conduct an analysis of interagency PMEF interdependencies within each NEF to accurately depict each department or agency’s PMEF execution capability and dependencies. The IAB will conduct NEF-specific BIAs to: (1) identify potential single points of failure(s) that may adversely affect the execution of the interagency PMEF support to NEFs; (2) define the impact of downtime (i.e., impact of delayed PMEF recovery on NEF execution); and (3) define potential PMEF process alternatives/workaround( s) solutions. (6) NEF BPA and BIA and interagency list of PMEFs are submitted to the NCC for final approval”. (DHS, FCD 1, Nov. 2007, pp. D-7 & D-8)