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Funding Instrument: Grant <br />C. Eligibility Information <br />Eligible Applicants <br />State governments (State Administrative Agency [SAA] or the State's Emergency <br />Management Agency [EMA]) <br />Eligibility Criteria <br />All 56 states and territories, as well as the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the <br />Federated States of Micronesia, are eligible to apply for FY 2016 EMPG Program fiords. <br />Either the SAA or the EMA is eligible to apply directly to FEMA for EMPG Program <br />funds on behalf of each state or territory. However, only one application will be accepted <br />from each state or territory. <br />Other Eligibility Criteria <br />Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) Membership <br />In support of the Goal, EMPG recipients must belong to, be located in, or act as <br />temporary member states of EMAC, except for American Samoa, the Federated States of <br />Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern <br />Mariana Islands, which are not currently required to belong to EMAC. All assets <br />supported in part or entirely with FY 2016 EMPG Program funding must, where <br />applicable, be readily deployable to support emergency or disaster operations per existing <br />EMAC agreements. <br />National Incident Management System (NIMS) Implementation <br />Prior to allocation of any federal preparedness awards in FY 2016, recipients must ensure <br />and maintain adoption and implementation of NIMS. Emergency management and <br />incident response activities require carefully managed resources (personnel, teams, <br />facilities, equipment and/or supplies) to meet incident needs. Utilization of the <br />standardized resource management concepts such as typing, credentialing, and <br />inventorying promote a strong national mutual aid capability needed to support delivery <br />of core capabilities. Additional information on resource management and NIMS resource <br />typing definitions and job titles /position qualifications is available under <br />hltp: / /www.fema.g_ov/ resource - management- mutual -aid. <br />FEMA developed NIMS Guideline for Credentialing of Personnel to describe national <br />credentialing standards and to provide written guidance regarding the use of those <br />standards. This guideline describes credentialing and typing processes, and identifies <br />tools which Federal Emergency Response Officials (FEROs) and emergency managers at <br />all levels of government may use both routinely and to facilitate multijurisdictional <br />coordinated responses. <br />Page 4 of 46 <br />FY 2016 EMPG <br />55A -74 <br />