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MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA acting through the INDIANAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, REGARDING INDIANA TASK. FORCE ONE THIS MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT (hereinafter referred to as "Agreement"), is entered into by and between the City of Indianapolis, Indiana acting through the Indianapolis Fire Department (hereinafter referred to as "CITY"), and the City of South Bend, Indiana, a political subdivision of the State of Indiana, acting through its Board of Public Works for and on behalf of the South Bend Fire Department. RECITALS: WHEREAS, pursuant to federal law, principally the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121 through 5206 (hereinafter referred to as the "Stafford Act"), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, acting through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (hereinafter referred to as "FEMA"), operates the National Urban Search & Rescue Response System (hereinafter referred to as "System") in conjunction with State and local governments; and WHEREAS, the CITY is the sponsoring agency for Indiana Task Force One (hereinafter referred to as "Task Force"), an urban search and rescue task force of the System, established in 1992 pursuant to an agreement between FEMA and the City of Indianapolis, Indiana; and WHEREAS, the CITY in its capacity as sponsoring agency is responsible for recruiting and organizing the Task Force such that the Task Force consists of individuals occupying certain specified positions plus additional support personnel, all of whom have been properly trained with the requisite skills and capabilities required for urban search and rescue operations and/or deployment of the Task Force; and WHEREAS, the Task Force may be deployed as a single unit or it may be reorganized into teams for purposes of modularized responses for limited or specialized activations, and members of the Task Force may also be deployed as members of a management or other technical team; and WHEREAS, the CITY in the performance of it's responsibilities may enter into cooperative arrangements with federal, state, or local government entities, or non-profit or for -profit entities, to serve as participating agencies in the Task Force, and with individuals to serve as affiliated personnel of the Task Force; and WHEREAS, the CITY in its capacity as sponsoring agency is obligated to enter into written agreements with those participating agencies and affiliated personnel setting forth the relationship between the parties; and WHEREAS, the City of South Bend, Indiana, desires to be a participating agency in the Task Force, subject to all of the provisions of this Agreement; NOW, THEREFORE, the CITY and the City of South Bend, Indiana, (hereinafter referred to as "Participating Agency"), in consideration of the foregoing recitals and the following promises, hereby agree as follows. Revised OCC 10-20E6