Each year, FEMA requires that our region document whether all entities requesting and receiving homeland security grant funds are compliant with NIMS and its principles. To meet this requirement, all jurisdictions must submit answers to a series of questions. An answer of “no” to any question disqualifies you from receiving grant funds, but FEMA also allows for documentation that you are in the process of meeting a requirement or meet it via an alternate method in order to remain eligible to receive funding.

The survey below should be completed once per jurisdiction per grant year. Deadlines will be announced by the UASI Program Manager or their designee. Note that the survey below intentionally does not include any “no” answer choices; you should only complete the survey once you are sure you can select one of the allowed answer choices (yes, in process, or alternate method, as applicable to the question). Also note that the survey is generally completed for an entire jurisdiction as a whole (so for a City, it only needs to be completed once, not individually by police, fire, OEM, health department, public works, etc.).

You may also find the following resources helpful in completing this document:

• FEMA NIMS Guidance and Tools Website
• FEMA NIMS Doctrine (2017 version)
• FEMA Resource Typing and Library Tool (RTLT)
• FEMA HSEEP Resources