FLOOD03473

• County: Statewide
• Community: Region VIII
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Comprehensive Cooperative Agreement
• Date: 1/1/1989
• Prepared For: Region VIII
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

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Substitution of An Actual Disaster or Emergency Response. This
paragraph defines disaster as it relates to revisions for
exercise substitution. Should an actual disaster or significant
emergency response occur, credit for a FSE or FE would be
accepted by FEMA, taking into consideration the stipulations
outlined below:

a. The final decision on substitution of an actual disaster
or significant emergency response for exercises lies with the
FEMA Regional Director. The appropriate degree of intensity will
be factored by the FEMA Regional Director. The following action
areas will be considered in the decision.

(1)
Officer of
President.

Formal declaration of a disaster by the Chief Executive
the jurisdiction or the State Governor or the

(2) Warning of the population;
(3) Actual evacuation of population;

(4) Active participation by multiple organizations;

(5) Activation (alert, notification, staff assembly) of the
EOC and implementation of the EOP; and

(6) Response requiring assents outside the jurisdiction,
e.g., activation of mutual aid agreements or activation of
national emergency relief organizations such as the Mennonite
Disaster Service or the American Red Cross.

b. NO CREDIT REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES will be given for an
actual occurrence/disaster or significant emergency response
without the submission of FEMA Form 90-2, Disaster Response
Questionnaire, (DRQ).

c. The annualS-year Exercise Plan requirement can be
modified after submission to reflect any actual implementation of
a jurisdiction's EOP in response to an actual disaster event of
adequate magnitude.