So we're going to talk about the National Earthquake Technical Assistance Program, or NETAP, as you all know it. Okay. Let me see.

There we go. Okay. So those of you who don't know what NETAP is, it was a program designed to help state, local, territorial, and tribal governments obtain knowledge, tools, and support they need to plan and implement earthquake mitigation by providing instructor-led training courses. It works through the states to do this. So we do provide training beyond the states, but we work through the states to do that. Under NEHRP, it's FEMA's responsibility to, and you can read the quote there, I won't read it to you, but it's basically to have an education public awareness program. That is one of FEMA's requirements that can assist the public in preparing, mitigating, responding, and recovering from earthquakes and other disasters.

FEMA developed NEETAP a very long time ago as a mechanism for delivering that assistance to the public to increase their ability to prepare for earthquakes and support overall community resilience. We provided trainings and associated materials related to earthquake risk reduction. The trainings are intended for a wide variety of participants with broad professional backgrounds. So we try and cover a broad, broad, broad territory. There we go. What's new in NEETAP? For those of you who do know what ETAB is, it's being done now under a task order between FEMA and ATC instead of a grant. Since we already had a task order contract, it was much easier to add a task to that contract instead of going to the grant process. The current task order runs out March of next year, and we already have a new task order in place that goes through September of next year.

So we've got two task orders waiting in the wings. In early 2025, as you probably heard, FEMA issued a stop work order for the NETAP task order. All trainings were halted pending a FEMA review. We did submit the two most established trainings, most recent trainings, which was ATC20 and FEMA 2055, along with the NETAP resource guide for that review, and they were approved, but with fairly extensive comments that we had to deal with.

Permission was then given for us to resume online trainings only, no more in-person trainings. So everything you see now is online. We did try and attempt to schedule two previously accredited trainings, ADC20 and FEMA P2055, but they were both interrupted by government shutdowns. So we were pretty much striking out for about a year.

The states that qualify for NETAP, you see the list there. So hopefully your state's on there and hopefully you're interested in having some trainings.

I'll leave that for a moment. And then we did finally succeed in doing two trainings two weeks ago. The ATC 20 on September 15th and the FEMA P 2055 on September 16th. We had over 400 registered for both of those courses. Our max number of attendees was 300 and 226. And those that qualify for PDHs, I'm sorry, which officially is you attend 90% of the course. You see the numbers there. To be honest with you, we are a little more lenient than that.

If you make a good faith effort, we'll lower that number a little bit. And we did in this case as well. The sponsoring states who kicked this off, the request off, were Idaho and Utah. And then we had several states add themselves on to the list, as you see there. So that gave us some really good participation numbers. So thank you to all the states who played and participated and advertised and brought people to the table.

Some highlights of NEATAP. As I said before, we only now do online trainings. The in-person trainings have been discontinued until further notice. States may request one web-based course, but they may also request to be added as a co-sponsor to courses that are already scheduled and ones that they want to participate in. ATC may combine course requests to cut costs. So we have a couple that are hitting in the same month. We will likely combine those together,

but we'll work with the states and make sure those are dates that still work. Courses do require a minimum of 25 registrants two weeks prior to the course, or they will be canceled just for cost purposes. And to let you know, there are two courses that now have recordings that are good enough quality that FEMA has put them on their NEETAP website. So they're available anytime. And it's FEMA P154 that you just heard about, the rapid visual screening, and FEMA P1000, which is a school safety guide. So if you're looking for those, those are already available anytime.

Responsibilities under NETAP, both states and the contractor have responsibilities. Once a training has been approved, the state or territory requesting the training is responsible for advertising the training and recruiting participants for the training. Once the training is scheduled, the contractor will provide a 508 compliant course flyer for the states to use and requesting to advertise the course. We are responsible for administering the registration, hosting the training on a web-based platform, which is Zoom. And we do have our contract with Zoom allows up to 3,000 seats, so nobody's even come close to those yet. So we're pretty well set for that.

We also provide reasonable accommodation when requested with at least two weeks' notice, monitoring the registration so letting the states know if they're low, and then distributing certificates of participation afterwards. The contractor, as I said, may combine online training requests if they're asked within the same time frame.

This is the list of the courses that are currently available. This same list will be on the resource guide that you will see shortly, but I did want to provide that here. Most of these you are familiar with, but they are all available for NETAP training.

The requirements, two requirements that FEMA placed on keeping this list up to date is that the course complies with a current FEMA presentation guide or guide for how presentation is supposed to look. And that they've been done underneath TAP within the last couple of years. And all of these basically meet those two requirements. There are some other ones that didn't meet that. They're currently off the list. We hope to work on those and get them back on. But again, you'll see this list when you see the resource guide. And then my last slide, so I'm trying to catch up for you.

The next round of NETAP courses will be between now and the end of March with the end of the first task order. And then we'll have another round of courses between March and September of next year. We'll shortly be emailing out to all of you the new NETAP or updated NETAP resource guide that will help states and territories if they wish to choose their next web-based course. The course selections will be due in mid-November timeframe and we'll schedule those by mid-December. And to select a course, please provide the course and what month you would like to have it.

Again, there'll be instructions on the email when this goes out. The window for actually presenting the courses will be mid-January to mid-March. If that works great, If not, then we'll repeat the process next spring through next summer, and you'll have another opportunity then. And with that, that is the end of my presentation.

So any questions?