The Certified Ophthalmic Medical Technologist (COMT) certification designation recognizes those individuals who have progressed through the COA and COT levels or are training program graduates as accomplished eye care professionals.
The DSCA mission includes the broader scope of support that the DOD provides to states upon request, to include support to hurricane, wildland fire, earthquakes, and other natural disasters, through the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act). (21) The Stafford Act is the primary statutory authority for both the DOD DSCA mission and the JTF-CS CBRNE consequence management mission. (22) In accordance with the principles of federalism embodied in the Stafford Act, DOD supports civil authorities during consequence management operations at the direction of the Secretary of Defense to support the lead federal agency (LFA).
Since the NRP was adopted in December 2004, many parts of the Plan had been used to various degrees and magnitudes for thirty declared Stafford Act events to coordinate Federal assistance. 49 Yet, an INS had never formally been declared prior to Tuesday, August 30, 2005during the Hurricane Katrina response.s a prerequisite to major disaster assistance under the Stafford Act, a requesting Governor must take appropriate response action under State law and direct execution of the State's emergency plan. 69 Similarly, State emergency operations plans are based on this layered system.