§ 336.4 - Definitions.

(a) Agency. Agency refers to all of the Federal departments and agencies and the State and local entities participating in the NIF program to predesignate nonindustrial facilities.

(b) Allocation. Allocation means the NIF predesignation has been granted to the requesting organization.

(c) Denial. Denial means that predesignation of a NIF was not allocated due to a conflict between Federal or State NIF requests.

(d) Graduated Mobilization Response is a system for integrating mobilization actions designed to respond to ambiguous and/or specific warnings. These actions are designed to mitigate the impact of an event or crisis and reduce significantly the lead time associated with a full national emergency action implementation.

(e) National security emergency. A national security emergency is any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.

(f) Nonindustrial Facility. Nonindustrial Facility refers to a unit of real property that can be used for housing, training or another non-industrial purpose; for example hotels, motels, educational institutions, office buildings, and other real estate (excluding farms,churches or other places of worship, or private dwelling houses).

(g) Predesignation. Predesignation means the advanced identification and screening of a NIF to help ensure there will be no conflict of requirements for its use during a national security emergency.