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Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD 12) - Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors. This is directive from President Bush that all federal employees and contractors be issued a standard form of identification used to gain access to secure Federal and other facilities where there is potential for terrorist attacks that need to be eliminated. Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to enhance security, increase Government efficiency, reduce identity fraud, and protect personal privacy by establishing a mandatory, Government-wide standard for secure and reliable forms of identification issued by the Federal Government to its employees and contractors (including contractor employees). http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040827-8.html

Federal Information Processing Standard 201- In response to HSPD 12, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Computer Security Division initiated a new program for improving the identification and authentication of Federal employees and contractors for access to Federal facilities and information systems. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201, entitled Personal Identity Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors, was developed to satisfy the requirements of HSPD 12, approved by the Secretary of Commerce, and issued on February 25, 2005. http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/piv/index.html

Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals- ESAR-VHP System is an electronic database of health care personnel who volunteer to provide aid in an emergency. An ESAR-VHP System must provide for (1) registration of health volunteers, (2) designation of resource types and (3) the emergency verification of the identity, credentials and qualifications of volunteers. http://www.hhs.gov/aspr/

Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-53)- This law brings all previous efforts and puts them in the hands of FEMA and NIMS. The law defines a credential as: 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 And sets out a time line for implementation as: IN GENERAL.—Not later than 12 months after the date of enactment of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, and in coordination with appropriate national professional organizations, Federal, State, local, and tribal government agencies, and private-sector and nongovernmental entities, the Administrator shall establish model standards and guidelines for credentialing critical infrastructure workers that may be used by a State to credential critical infrastructure workers that may respond to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster.

American National Standards Institute – Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP)- ANSI, working for and with FEMA, established the Workshop on Credentialing and Access Control for Disaster Management to bring the public and private sectors together to examine this important issue, as well as to support efforts implementing Section 408 of Public Law 110-53 (The Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007). http://www.ansi.org/standards_activities/standards_boards_panels/hssp/overview.aspx?menuid=3


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