Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
Lunchtime Briefing Series
NRF and ESF # 2
Allan K. Manuel, Esquire
Associate Division Chief
Public Communications Outreach and Operations Division
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
allan.manuel@fcc.gov
202-418-1164 (desk)
202.391.5331 (mobile)
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
What is our Mission?
• Save Lives
• Protect Property
• Maintain Continuity of Operations
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
The Jargon/Lexicon/Lingo
• NRF • JFO • PFO
• ESF • NGO • RRCC
• FECC • NICC • SCO
• EOC • NIMS • NCS
• FCO • NOC • JTRB
• HSC • NRCC • OSTP
• HSIN • NRP • NS/EP
• HSPD • NSC • CIKR
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF www.fema.gov/nrf
• What is it?
• Where did it come from?
• Who is in charge of it?
• Who will use it?
• How is it organized?
• What are the key concepts and topics?
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• What is it?
A guide to how the Nation conducts all-hazards response. It
is built upon scalable, flexible, and adaptable coordinating
structures to align key roles and responsibilities across the
Nation. It describes specific authorities and best practices
for managing incidents that range from the serious but
purely local, to large-scale terrorist attacks or catastrophic
natural disasters.
It builds upon the National Incident Management System
(NIMS), which provides a consistent template for managing
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incidents. Effective sixty days after January 22, 2008.
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• Where did it come from?
Sprang from the National Response Plan or NRP (2004
and 2006), which the White House scrapped last year.
The NRP succeeded the Federal Response Plan (1992),
which, as its name indicates, focused on Federal roles
and responsibilities.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• Who is in charge of it?
Executive Branch through DHS. The Secretary of DHS
is the principal Federal official for domestic incident
management.
FEMA Regions
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• Who will use it?
It is addressed to senior elected and appointed leaders,
such as Federal department or agency heads, State
Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, and city or county
officials – those who have a responsibility to provide for
effective response.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• Who will use it?
At the same time, the NRF informs emergency
management practitioners, explaining the operating
structures and tools used routinely by first responders and
emergency managers at all levels of government. The
public sector, private sector, and NGOs have a role.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• How is it organized?
Chapter I – Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter II – Response Actions
Chapter III – Response Organization
Chapter IV – Planning: A Critical Element of Effective
Response
Chapter V – Additional Resources
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• What are the key concepts and topics?
Response Doctrine
1. Engaged partnership.
2. Tiered response (manage from the lowest level).
3. Scalable, flexible, and adaptable operational
capabilities.
4. Unity of effort through unified command.
5. Readiness to act.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• What are the key concepts and topics?
Robert T. Stafford Assistance Act
The Stafford Act authorizes the President to provide
financial and other assistance to State and local
governments, certain private nonprofit organizations, and
individuals to support response, recovery, and mitigation
efforts following Presidential emergency or major disaster
declarations.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• What are the key concepts and topics?
Robert T. Stafford Assistance Act
It is triggered by a Presidential declaration when an event
causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to
warrant Federal disaster assistance to supplement the
efforts and available resources of States.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• What are the key concepts and topics?
Preparedness Cycle
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• What are the key concepts and topics?
Response Process
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• What are the key concepts and topics?
Incident Command Structure
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
NRF
• What are the key concepts and topics?
Joint Field Office
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
ESF #2
• What is it?
• Who is in charge of it?
• How is it organized?
• What are the FCC’s duties?
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
ESF #2
• What is it?
ESF #1 Transportation
ESF #2 Communications
ESF #3 Public Works and Engineering
ESF #4 Firefighting
ESF #5 Emergency Management
ESF #6 Mass Care, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services
ESF #7 Logistics Management and Resource Support
ESF #8 Public Health and Medical Services
ESF #9 Search and Rescue
ESF #10 Oil and Hazardous Materials Response
ESF #11 Agriculture and Natural Resources
ESF #12 Energy
ESF #13 Public Safety and Security
ESF #14 Long-Term Community Recovery
ESF #15 External Affairs
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
ESF #2
• What is it?
Trained, Federal inter-agency team composed of
technical and administrative emergency response
experts who are capable of managing all aspects of
communications requirements arising in the field.
Stands ready for deployment when FEMA gives the
ESF #2 activation order.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
ESF #2
• What is it?
Supports the restoration of the communications
infrastructure, facilitates the recovery of systems and
applications from cyber attacks, and coordinates
Federal communications support to response efforts
during incidents requiring a coordinated Federal
response.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
ESF #2
• What is it?
Also provides communications support to Federal,
state, tribal, and local governments and first
responders when their systems have been impacted,
and provides communications and IT support to the
JFO and JFO field teams.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
ESF #2
• Who is in charge of it?
NCS is the Coordinator for ESF #2; it acts under
delegated authority from the White House’s OSTP
and is subject to direction from the JTRB.
FEMA also shares with leadership.
The FCC and six other departments and agencies are
Support Agencies. ESF #2 departments and
agencies provide personnel, equipment, and other
assistance as appropriate.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
ESF #2
• How is it organized?
NCS team focuses on privately owned
communications infrastructure; FEMA team takes
care of government and public safety
communications.
Field team led by the FECC.
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Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
ESF #2
• What are the FCC’s duties?
1. Collects, compiles, and analyzes communications
infrastructure and service outage and restoration
information.
2. Provides trained staff members to support
communications restoration teams and senior personnel
for assignment as the FECC.
3. Assists with the provision of communications support to
Federal, state, tribal, and local governments, including
public safety entities.
4. Assists with developing and conducting communications
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restoration training and exercises.
Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
ESF #2
• What are the FCC’s duties?
5. Conducts outreach to all FCC licensees to determine: (1)
their needs, and (2) whether they have resources to
offer that would aid the restoration effort.
6. Performs such functions as required by law with respect
to all entities licensed or regulated by the FCC, including
(but not limited to) the extension, discontinuance, or
reduction of common-carrier facilities or services; the
control of common carrier rates, charges, practices, and
classifications; the construction authorization, activation,
deactivation, or closing of radio stations, services, and
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facilities—continued next page
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ESF #2
• What are the FCC’s duties?
6. continued from previous page—the assignment of radio
frequencies to FCC licensees; the investigation of
violations of pertinent law and regulation; and the
initiation of appropriate enforcement actions. Also,
reviews policies, plans, and procedures that are
developed by entities licensed or regulated by the FCC
to provide NS/EP communications services to ensure
such policies, plans, and procedures are consistent with
the public interest, convenience, and necessity.
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