Sample NIMS Adoption Documents
NIMS Adoption
Participation in National Incident Management System (NIMS) is mandatory for grant eligibility. All federal departments, state, local and tribal government agencies are required to adopt NIMS and use it in their individual domestic incident management and emergency prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation activities. Federal departments and agencies make the adoption of NIMS by state and local organizations a condition in order to participate in Federal preparedness programs. In other words, you have to be participating in NIMS to be eligible to apply for DHS grants.
The Governor of the State of Oklahoma signed an Executive Proclamation on September 28, 2005, which established NIMS as the state standard for incident management.