In this title--
(1) the term ``Administrator'' means the
Administrator of the Agency;
(2) the term ``Agency'' means the Federal Emergency
Management Agency;
(3) the term ``catastrophic incident'' means any
natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made
disaster that results in extraordinary levels of
casualties or damage or disruption severely affecting
the population (including mass evacuations),
infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale,
or government functions in an area;
(4) the terms ``credentialed'' and
``credentialing'' mean having provided, or providing,
respectively, documentation that identifies personnel
and authenticates and verifies the qualifications of
such personnel by ensuring that such personnel possess
a minimum common level of training, experience,
physical and medical fitness, and capability
appropriate for a particular position in accordance
with standards created under section 510;
(5) the term ``Federal coordinating officer'' means
a Federal coordinating officer as described in section
302 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5143);
(6) the term ``interoperable'' has the meaning
given the term ``interoperable communications'' under
section 7303(g)(1) of the Intelligence Reform and
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (6 U.S.C. 194(g)(1));
(7) the term ``National Incident Management
System'' means a system to enable effective, efficient,
and collaborative incident management;
(8) the term ``National Response Plan'' means the
National Response Plan or any successor plan prepared
under section 502(a)(6);
(9) the term ``Regional Administrator'' means a
Regional Administrator appointed under section 507;
(10) the term ``Regional Office'' means a Regional
Office established under section 507;
(11) the term ``resources'' means personnel and
major items of equipment, supplies, and facilities
available or potentially available for responding to a
natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made
disaster;
(12) the term ``surge capacity'' means the ability
to rapidly and substantially increase the provision of
search and rescue capabilities, food, water, medicine,
shelter and housing, medical care, evacuation capacity,
staffing (including disaster assistance employees), and
other resources necessary to save lives and protect
property during a catastrophic incident;
(13) the term ``tribal government'' means the
government of any entity described in section 2(11)(B);
and
(14) the terms ``typed'' and ``typing'' mean having
evaluated, or evaluating, respectively, a resource in
accordance with standards created under section 510.