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Attachment A <br />FY05 HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM <br />2. Ensure operational viability of mass care shelters and medical treatment <br />facilities. Mass care shelter planning should be coordinated with the American <br />Red Cross. The public must be made aware of where these shelters are, and <br />procedures for entrance. <br />• Revise or update current plans to include the provision of hazardous /toxic <br />substances portal and point detection and monitoring, decontamination and <br />public safety support to mass care shelters and medical treatment facilities by <br />designated personnel and equipment. <br />• Consider the establishment of reception centers, which consolidate <br />monitoring, triage, decontamination, and registration of affected persons. <br />• Identify agent antidotes by types and dosage volumes and planning for <br />storage, dispersal, and dispensing, and awareness of how agent antidote <br />dosages may impact the health of vulnerable populations (i.e. immune - <br />suppressed individuals, children). <br />• Ensure that alternate medical treatment facilities have immediately available <br />electric power, water and sewer, environmental controls, and other necessary <br />infrastructure support to become operationally viable on short notice. <br />3. Emergency Alerting System /Emergency Public Information. Review and revise <br />planning for pre -event emergency public information message content <br />scripting /templates and arrangements for multiple modes of message <br />dissemination. Ensure that the distinctive characteristics of radiological, <br />biological, and chemical agents are reflected in template messages and that self - <br />help contamination avoidance and decontamination actions are also included. <br />4. NIMS Compliance. Compliance with NIMS is a condition for award of this grant. <br />NIMS is a comprehensive incident response system, developed by DHS as <br />required by HSPD -5. The NIC will oversee all aspects of NIMS, including the <br />development of NIMS - related standards and guidelines and the provision of <br />guidance and support to incident management and responder organizations as <br />they implement the system. The NIC also will validate compliance with NIMS <br />and NRP responsibilities, standards and requirements. <br />Major components of NIMS include incident command and management, <br />preparedness, resource management, communications and information <br />management, supporting technologies, and ongoing management and <br />maintenance. See Section IV., National Initiatives for NIMS guidance. <br />Implementation of NIMS concepts, procedures, and functions in MMRS <br />jurisdictions includes the following activities regarding each MMRS operational <br />area: <br />DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY I OFFICE FOR DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS <br />9S <br />