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Key Assets
Local Government
Metropolitan Planning
Organization (MPO)
Municipally Owned
Utility
Mutual Aid Agreement
National Association
of Regional Councils
(NARC)
National Association
of State Energy
Officials (NASEO)
National Incident
Management System
(NIMS)
National Response
Framework (NRF)
National Rural
Electric Cooperative
Association (NRECA)
New Energy
Technology
Non-Governmental
Organization (NGO)
Portfolio Manager
Health and safety-related assets such as “911” call centers, airports, emergency shelters,
hospitals, first responder facilities (EOC), water pumping stations, telecommunications
routing facilities, and fire and police facilities.
The public authority with leadership responsibility for a jurisdiction such as village,
township, tribal area, city, or county, and activities and events that occur within the
geographic boundaries of that jurisdiction.
A Federally-mandated and Federally-funded transportation policy-making organization
in the U.S. that is made up of representatives from local government and governmental
transportation authorities.
An electric company owned and operated by a municipality serving residential,
commercial, and/or industrial customers, usually within the boundaries of the municipality.
These utilities are responsible for customer billing, wire, pole, and meter maintenance,
connecting new customers, distribution of electricity, and restoring power after an outage.
An IOU is different than an MOU in that the latter is a public entity and the former is not.
However, their responsibilities are essentially the same except for those as determined by
the IOU’s regulatory body. (See IOU above.)
A signed document between units of local government that provides for emergency
response services between jurisdictions through specific labor and equipment
agreements.
An entity that serves as the national voice for regionalism. NARC advocates for and
provides services to its member councils of government (COGs) and metropolitan
planning organizations (MPOs).
A national non-profit organization whose membership includes the governor-designated
energy officials from each State and territory. NASEO was formed by the States through
an agreement with the National Governors Association in 1986. The organization was
created to improve the effectiveness and quality of State energy programs and policies,
to provide policy input and analysis, to share successes among the States, and to be a
repository of information on issues of particular concern to the States and their citizens.
NASEO is an instrumentality of the States and derives basic funding from the States and
the Federal government.
Provides a systematic, proactive approach to guiding departments and agencies at all
levels of government, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to work
seamlessly to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects
of incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity, in order to reduce the loss
of life and property and harm to the environment.
Presents the guiding principles that enable all response partners to prepare for and
provide a unified national response to disasters and emergencies—from the smallest
incident to the largest catastrophe. The NRF establishes a comprehensive, national, allhazards
approach to domestic incident response.
The service organization dedicated to representing the national interests of cooperative
electric utilities and the consumers they serve.
For the purposes of this document, any emerging energy technology such as
microturbines, smart grid, or fuel cells that has yet to be mainstreamed into common
practice.
A legally constituted organization that operates independently from any government; a
term usually used by governments to refer to entities that have no government status.
An interactive energy management tool developed by the U.S. EPA that allows the user to
track and assess the energy and water consumption of buildings using a rating system.
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