- Administrator
means the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
- Agency
means the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
- Chief Executive
means the person who is the Chief, Chairman, Governor, President, or similar executive official of an Indian tribal government.
- community disaster resilience zone
means a census tract designated by the President under subsection (d)(1).
- congressionally directed spending
means a statutory provision or report language included primarily at the request of a Senator or a Member, Delegate or Resident Commissioner of the House of Representatives providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a specific State, locality, or Congressional district, other than through a statutory or administrative formula-driven or competitive award process.
- covered assistance
means assistance provided—
- covered disaster assistance
means assistance—
- critical infrastructure
means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.
- critical services
includes power, water (including water provided by an irrigation organization or facility), sewer, wastewater treatment, communications (including broadcast and telecommunications), education, and emergency medical care.
- debar
has the meaning given the term in section 4654(c) of title 10.
- Department of Defense
has the meaning the term “department” has under section 101 of title 10.
- disaster
means a declaration of a major disaster by the President after September 1, 1989, pursuant to section 5170 of this title;
- eligible entity
means a State or an Indian tribal government that has received a major disaster declaration pursuant to section 5170 of this title.
- Emergency
means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President, Federal assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the United States.
- emergency preparedness
means all those activities and measures designed or undertaken to prepare for or minimize the effects of a hazard upon the civilian population, to deal with the immediate emergency conditions which would be created by the hazard, and to effectuate emergency repairs to, or the emergency restoration of, vital utilities and facilities destroyed or damaged by the hazard.
- emergency work
includes clearance and removal of debris and wreckage and temporary restoration of essential public facilities and services.
- essential service provider
means an entity that—
- Federal agency
means any department, independent establishment, Government corporation, or other agency of the executive branch of the Federal Government, including the United States Postal Service, but shall not include the American National Red Cross.
- flood disaster area
means an area with respect to which—
- Governor
means the chief executive of any State.
- hazard
has the meaning given the term in section 5195a of this title.
- hazard mitigation plan
means a mitigation plan submitted under section 5165 of this title.
- Indian tribal government
means the governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe under the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 479a et seq.).1
- individual with a disability
means an individual with a disability as defined in section 12102(2) of this title.
- insular area
means any of the following: American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Marshall Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands;
- local government
means—
- low-income geographic area
means an area described in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 3161(a) of this title.
- low-income migrant or seasonal farmworker
means an individual—
- Major disaster
means any natural catastrophe (including any hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, winddriven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, or drought), or, regardless of cause, any fire, flood, or explosion, in any part of the United States, which in the determination of the President causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under this chapter to supplement the efforts and available resources of States, local governments, and disaster relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby.
- management cost
includes any indirect cost, any direct administrative cost, and any other administrative expense associated with a specific project under a major disaster, emergency, or disaster preparedness or mitigation activity or measure.
- materials
includes raw materials, supplies, medicines, equipment, component parts and technical information and processes necessary for emergency preparedness.
- multihazard advisory map
means a map on which hazard data concerning each type of natural disaster is identified simultaneously for the purpose of showing areas of hazard overlap.
- natural disaster
means any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, drought, fire, or other catastrophe in any part of the United States which causes, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons.
- neighboring countries
includes Canada and Mexico.
- nonemployee System member
means a System member not employed by a sponsoring agency or participating agency.
- organizational equipment
means equipment determined by the Administrator to be necessary to an emergency preparedness organization, as distinguished from personal equipment, and of such a type or nature as to require it to be financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government.
- participating agency
means a State or local government, nonprofit organization, or private organization that has executed an agreement with a sponsoring agency to participate in the System.
- participating entity
means an eligible entity that has entered into an agreement under this section.
- person
means the political subdivision of any State or combination or group thereof or any person, corporation, association, or other entity of any nature whatsoever, including instrumentalities of States and political subdivisions.
- private nonprofit facility
means private nonprofit educational (without regard to the religious character of the facility), center-based childcare, utility, irrigation, emergency, medical, rehabilitational, and temporary or permanent custodial care facilities (including those for the aged and disabled) and facilities on Indian reservations, as defined by the President.
- Public facility
means the following facilities owned by a State or local government:
- repetitive loss structure
has the meaning given the term in section 4121 of this title.
- rural area
means an area with a population of less than 200,000 outside an urbanized area.
- Secretary
means the Secretary of the Interior.
- severe repetitive loss structure
has the meaning given the term in section 4104c(h) of this title.
- small impoverished community
means a community of 3,000 or fewer individuals that is economically disadvantaged, as determined by the State in which the community is located and based on criteria established by the President.
- sponsoring agency
means a State or local government that is the sponsor of a task force designated by the Administrator to participate in the System.
- State
means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- States
includes 1 the several States, the District of Columbia, and territories and possessions of the United States.
- System
means the National Urban Search and Rescue Response System to be administered under this section.
- System member
means an individual who is not a full-time employee of the Federal Government and who serves on a task force or on a System management or other technical team.
- task force
means an urban search and rescue team designated by the Administrator to participate in the System.
- United States
means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
- wildland-urban interface
has the meaning given the term in section 6511 of title 16.