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| | DHS | Department of Homeland Security | Fact Sheet: National Response Plan |
 | | The National Response Plan establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents. |
 | | The Plan incorporates best practices and procedures from incident management disciplines—homeland security, emergency management, law enforcement, firefighting, public works, public health, responder and recovery worker health and safety, emergency medical services, and the private sector—and integrates them into a unified structure. |
 | | The Plan identifies catastrophic incidents as high-impact, low-probability incidents, including natural disasters and terrorist attacks that result in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale, and/or government functions. |
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