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49 <br />CPs is a shared responsibility among whole community partners including the public, ST-CP owners and <br />operators, security industry partners, the Federal Government, and SLTT government partners. States, <br />territories, high-risk urban areas, and public and private sector partners are encouraged to identify security <br />gaps and build capabilities that address security needs of ST-CPs, understanding the unique challenges <br />related to protecting locations that are open to the public. States, territories, high-risk urban areas, and <br />public and private sector partners are also encouraged to use resources to instill a culture of awareness, <br />vigilance, and preparedness. For more information and additional resources, please see the DHS’s <br />Hometown Security Program. <br />Community Lifelines <br />FEMA created Community Lifelines to reframe incident information, understand and communicate <br />incident impacts using plain language, and promote unity of effort across the whole community to <br />prioritize efforts to stabilize the lifelines during incident response. Although lifelines were developed to <br />support response planning and operations, the concept can be applied across the entire preparedness cycle. <br />Efforts to protect lifelines, prevent and mitigate potential impacts to them, and build back stronger and <br />smarter during recovery will drive overall resilience of the nation. Applying the lifelines construct allows <br />decision-makers to: <br />•Prioritize, sequence, and focus response efforts towards maintaining or restoring the most critical <br />services and infrastructure; <br />•Utilize a common lexicon to facilitate unity of purpose among all stakeholders; <br />•Promote a response that facilitates unity of purpose and better communication among the whole <br />community (federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, and private sector and non- <br />governmental entities); and <br />•Clarify which components of the disaster are complex (multifaceted) or complicated (difficult), <br />requiring cross-sector coordination. <br />Lifelines are used to: <br />•Enhance the ability to gain, maintain, and communicate situational awareness for the whole <br />community in responding to disasters; <br />•Analyze impacts to the various lifelines and develop priority focus areas for each operational <br />period during response; <br />•Identify and communicate complex interdependencies to identify major limiting factors hindering <br />stabilization; and <br />•Update the National Response Framework to reflect use of lifelines in response planning. <br />Lifelines include opportunities to: <br />•Enable a true unity of effort between government, non-governmental organizations, and the <br />private sector, including infrastructure owners and operators; <br />•Integrate preparedness efforts, existing plans, and identify unmet needs to better anticipate <br />response requirements; and <br />•Refine reporting sources and products to enhance situational awareness, best determine capability <br />gaps, and demonstrate progress towards stabilization. <br />For more information on lifelines, please visit FEMA’s Community Lifelines Page and Implementation <br />Toolkit.