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National Guidelines The National Preparedness Guidelines are instrumental in guiding our State, local, Tribal, and territorial stakeholders in meeting the Nation's most urgent needs. For additional information on the National Preparedness Guidelines,_ please see SHSP and UASI Priorities for FY Priority One — Whole Community Advancing "Whole Community" Security and Emergency Management. As the country experiences threats of terrorist attacks (foreign and domestic) and natural disasters, communities are challenged to develop collective, local abilities to withstand the potential impacts of these events, respond quickly, and recover in a way that sustains or improves the community's overall well- being. Achieving this collective capacity calls for innovative approaches across the community, including emergency management to build up existing practices, institutions, and organizations that help make local communities successful, and that can leverage this infrastructure if and when an incident occurs. To address the priority, objectives have been identified and each is given a performance measure and associated reporting requirement to determine how effective grantees are in utilizing SHSP and UASI funding to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism and advance a whole community approach. Objective One Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA). THIRA processes at all levels of government establish a foundation to justify and guide preparedness activities and investments. A common approach to that process will enable the whole community to maintain a baseline understanding of the risks that they face, facilitating efforts to identify capability and resource gaps, focus capability improvements, and inform the community of actions they can take to manage their risks. In order to qualify for FY 2011 funding, all grantees shall develop and maintain a THIRA. THIRAs should include the range of threats and hazards faced by an applicant. The assessment should be based on analysis of the relative consequences of the various threats and hazards with consideration of empirical data to the maximum degree possible. An effective THIRA will allow the applicant to compare and prioritize risks, even if they are dissimilar, by identifying possible threats and hazards faced with respective probability estimates of their occurrence. THIRA findings should be incorporated into each applicant's preparedness strategy, planning, Investment Justification, and assessment documentation — addressing capability gaps identified during the THIRA process. Current State Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments developed for the purposes of Pre - Disaster Mitigation (PDM) or Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) that have