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CalWARN Mutual Aid/Asst Agreement 2 Approved and Adopted September 30, 2007 by Vote of Members <br />Health, or associations, who are members of the Regional or State Steering Committees 1 and do not officially sign the WARN agreement. 2 3 E. Confidential Information - Any document shared with any signatory to this Agreement that 4 is marked confidential, including but not limited to any map, report, notes, papers, opinion, 5 or e-mail which relates to the system vulnerabilities of a Member or Associate Member. 6 7 F. Non-Responding Member - A Member that does not provide assistance during a Period of 8 Assistance under the Mutual Aid and Assistance Program. 9 10 G. Requesting Member – A Member who requests assistance under the Mutual Aid and 11 Assistance Program. 12 13 H. Responding Member – A Member that responds to a request for assistance under the 14 Mutual Aid and Assistance Program. 15 16 I. Period of Assistance – A specified period of time when a Responding Member assists a 17 Requesting Member. The period commences when personnel, equipment, or supplies 18 depart from Responding Member’s facility and ends when the resources return to their 19 facility (portal to portal). All protections identified in the Agreement apply during this period. 20 The specified Period of Assistance may occur during response to or recovery from an 21 Emergency. 22 23 J. National Incident Management System (NIMS) - A national, standardized approach to 24 incident management and response that sets uniform processes and procedures for 25 emergency response operations. 26 27 K. Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) - A standardized approach to 28 field command and jurisdictional management and response set forth by State of California 29 Code of Regulations for multi-agency or multi-jurisdictional response to an emergency. 30 31 32 <br />ARTICLE III. 33 <br />ADMINISTRATION 34 <br /> 35 The administration of the Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (WARN) will be 36 through WARN Regional Steering Committees (RSC) and the WARN State Steering Committee 37 (SSC). 38 39 The WARN RSCs will be established by representatives from the Members in that region. A 40 chair and co-chair will be elected and act as administrators for that region. The chair will 41 represent the region on the WARN SSC. Each WARN RSC will sponsor an annual meeting for 42 Members, maintain a data base of all water and wastewater utilities who have signed this 43 Agreement, and meet as a committee to address concerns and procedures for requesting 44 mutual assistance in that region. The regions will be comprised of one or more of the six Office 45 of Emergency Services (OES) mutual aid regions. 46 47 The WARN SSC will include the chairs of the regional steering committees, and a 48 representative from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), California Utilities 49 Emergency Association (CUEA), Department of Water Resources (DWR), the American Water 50 Works Association (AWWA) Emergency Planning Committee, California Rural Water 51