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EmE r g E n c y ma n a g E m E n t In s t I t u t E • 2010-2011 • ca t a l o g of co u r s E s
Selection Criteria: FEMA Headquarters (National)
and FEMA Region Cadre Managers. Support staff is
eligible on a space-available basis.
Workshop Length: 2½ days
CEUs: 1.9
Disaster contracting (E706)
This course is designed as basic training for any
FEMA Joint Field Office (JFO) Contract Specialist,
most specifically for members of the FEMA
Acquisition/Procurement Disaster Workforce Cadre
or any personnel with FEMA Automated Deployment
Database (ADD) deployment title of Procurement Unit
Leader, Contract Specialist, or Procurement Clerk.
Selection Criteria: This course is for any FEMA
Acquisition/Procurement Disaster Workforce Cadre
member who will serve as a Contract Specialist in
JFO disaster operations or any personnel with FEMA
ADD deployment title of JFO Procurement Unit
Leader, Contract Specialist, or Procurement Clerk.
Approval to attend this course is made by the FEMA
Acquisition/Procurement National Cadre Manager,
or a member of the Office of Procurement/FEMA
Headquarters who can sign on behalf of the
Acquisition/Procurement National Cadre Manager.
The signature of the aforementioned is required. If
the person is also a FEMA Regional employee, the
signature of the FEMA Regional Training Manager is
also required.
Prerequisites:
Recommended: IS 100.a, Introduction to the Incident
Command System (ICS), ICS-100; IS 101, Deployment Basics:
Federal Disaster Workforce Readiness; IS 200.a, Incident
Command System (ICS) for Single Resources and Initial Action
Incidents, ICS-200; IS 700.a, National Incident Management
System (NIMS), An Introduction; and IS 800.b, National
Response Framework (NRF), An Introduction.
Course Length: 3 days
CEUs: 2.1
119
Introduction to fEma Office of chief
counsel (Occ) field Operations
(response, recovery, and Occ cadre
Deployment) (E/l713)
This 4-day course provides new FEMA legal staff
with the skills required to provide effective legal
support during response and recovery operations.
After completion of this course, participants will
have a basic understanding of FEMA’s statutory and
regulatory framework, the interface between FEMA
Headquarters OCC and field operations, and the roles
and responsibilities of the field legal staff. In addition,
they will have a basic knowledge of substantive topics
including disaster declarations, response operations
including Federal agency authorities, coordination
of Federal support, mission assignment and grant
assistance for emergency protective measures,
insular area considerations, records requests (FOIA
and Privacy Act), and recovery operations including
public assistance, individual assistance, and hazard
mitigation, Tribal relations, and environmental and
historic preservation concerns.
Selection Criteria: FEMA Office of Chief Counsel
(OCC) staff
Prerequisites:
Required: Must have read Your Guide to FEMA Booklet
(disaster related).
Course Length: 4 days
advanced field attorney training (E714)
The purpose of this course is to update the Field
Attorneys based on the last year’s lessons learned which
will allow them to be better able to perform their
responsibilities of ensuring that field operations are
consistent with the Stafford Act, other laws, regulations,
and Agency policy and standards. The Field Attorneys
provide timely onsite legal advice to ensure that Federal
Coordinating Officer and program staff decisions are
legally sound and fiscally responsible.
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