• Emergency Power Facility Assessment Tool, or EPFAT, is a website tool operated and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It contains facility assessment data from two primary sources:
• Facilities assessed in previous disasters/exercises by the 249th Engineer Battalion “Prime Power” assessment teams from 2008-present.
• Facility assessment data entered from 2013-present by existing facility owners.
• It provides an off-site repository for this assessment data to be stored. Data is specific to a UserID and password. Only the person who entered the data for a facility can edit or change it. The website contains a “How To” guide that provides a hard copy form to record the required assessment data for the facility. Local, State, and Federal Emergency Management staff can also review the data.
• If an event occurs which results in a Presidential Disaster Declaration, Federal Emergency Management Agency(FEMA)-provided generators can be used to power critical facilities. If a facility’s data is already on file, it eliminates the need for an assessment team from the 249th to travel to a facility and conduct an assessment. Instead, a generator will be dispatched based upon the data stored in EPFAT.
• Should a more localized event occur, this data can allow local organizations to attempt to locate and obtain a generator that can fill the need.
• EPFAT Website address: (http://epfat.swf.usace.army.mil/Welcome.aspx)

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