The US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is advising stakeholders and partners that the National Response Framework (NRF), successor to the National Response Plan goes into effect as of Saturday, March 22, 2008.
On January 22, 2008, the NRF was initially released following an extensive process of outreach and coordination between the Department and key stakeholders representing federal, tribal, state and local governments, non-governmental agencies and associations, and the private sector. The NRF was posted in the Federal Register for sixty days, as required by law. Now that the timeframe has passed, the NRF goes officially into effect.
