National Incident Management System (NIMS) 04
National Incident Management System (NIMS) 04 :
"HSPD-5 requires all Federal departments and agencies to adopt the NIMS and to use it in their individual domestic incident management and emergency prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation programs and activities, as well as in support of those actions taken to assist State, local, or tribal entities. The directive also requires Federal departments and agencies to make adoption of the NIMS by State, tribal and local organizations a condition for Federal preparedness assistance beginning in FY 2005. Compliance with certain aspects of the NIMS will be possible in the short-term, such as adopting the basic tenets of the Incident Command System.... Other aspects of the NIMS, however, will require further development and refinement to enable compliance at future dates". (DHS, NIMS, 2004, DHS Secretary Tom Ridge Memorandum for Distribution)
