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To support building, sustaining, and delivering these core capabilities, grantees will use the components of the NPS. The components of the NPS are; Identifying and Assessing Risk; Estimating Capability Requirements; Building and Sustaining Capabilities; Planning to Deliver Capabilities; Validating Capabilities; and Reviewing and Updating. For more information on each component, read the National Preparedness System description available at http: / /wrovrv,femcs,, ov /nnCional- eparedness /national �veparedness- system. Grantees are expected to use this process when using grant funds to address their capability gaps. Reporting on the Iatplementation of the National Preparedness System (NPS) Identifying and Assessing Risk and Estimating Capability Requirements In order to qualify, for EMPG Program funding, all grantees shall develop and maintain a Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment ( THIRA) which informs and supports the State Preparedness Report (SPR). Only one THIRA submission from each State will be accepted. A THIRA provides a comprehensive approach for identifying and assessing risks and associated impacts, It expands on existing local, tribal, territorial, and State Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments (HIRAs) and other risk methodologies by broadening the factors considered in the process, incorporating the whole community throughout the entire process, and by accounting for important community - specific characteristics. A guide on how to complete a THIRA is available at h2tp, / /vvrovvv.m.a.�av/ national prep redness /plan. In Step Four of the THIRA process, a jurisdiction should estimate the resources required to deliver the capability targets established in their THIRAs. Communities express resource requirements as a list of resources needed to successfully manage their threats and hazards. Through the capability estimation process, jurisdictions should identify the resources from across the whole community needed to meet capability targets, Each jurisdiction should decide which combination of resources is most appropriate to achieve its capability targets. Reporting: States are required to submit an annual update to their THIRA. States will submit their THIRA update along with their State Preparedness Report (SPR) through the Unified Reporting Tool (URT) and email a copy of the URT to their respective FEMA Regional Federal Preparedness Coordinator and copy em¢- r gr,.fema.dhs.uov, THIRA submissions shall be in alignment with Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 201, Second Edition. State submissions of the THIRA and SPR are due no later than December 31, 2014. Building and Sustaining Capabilities EMPG Program grantees should ensure that grant funding is utilized to sustain critical core capabilities within the NPS that were funded by past EMPG Program funding cycles to include training of personnel and lifecycle replacement of equipment. New capabilities should not be built at the expense of maintaining current and critically needed core capabilities. If new core capabilities are being built utilizing EMPG Program finding, grantees must ensure that the capabilities are able to be deptoyable outside of their community to support regional and national efforts or otherwise shareable with regional partners and aligned with a gap identified 24 Appendix A- FY 2014 EMPG Program Priorities