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William M. Lokey William (Bill) Lokey, Federal Coordinating Officer, FEMA Reg. X will cover the status of the new National Response Plan, ESF-2 (Communications), current FEMA operational capability in support of State and Local governments, and a basic overview of Federal response to disasters. William Lokey was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, graduating in 1969 with a Bachelor's Degree in Art. He worked for the U.S. Antarctic Program from 1969 until 1975, including three winters on the Antarctic continent. Work included logistics and station management and survival and search & rescue training. He went to work for the Washington State Department of Emergency Management in 1977, working on development of the State Disaster Plan, earthquake preparedness and search and rescue. In 1981, Bill was appointed Assistant Director for Operations, responsible for disaster response, warning, communications, search and rescue, hazardous materials planning, and recovery efforts and Restricted Zone management for Mt. Saint Helens. In 1986, Bill left the State to become the Director of Emergency Management for Pierce County, Washington, serving over 650,000 citizens. He served as the Pierce County Fire Marshal in 1991 and 1992. The Department's responsibilities included disaster preparedness, the Fire Prevention Bureau, radio communications, the Emergency Medical Services and E9-1-1 administration. Under his direction, the Department of Emergency Management received recognition for a number of its programs, including volcano hazard management for Mt. Rainier, earthquake safety for schools, and multi-language disaster preparedness information. The department was a leader in the development of urban search and rescue training in the Northwest and was the sponsoring jurisdiction of the Puget Sound Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, one of the federal government's teams in the National Urban Rescue Response System. Bill worked extensively on the planning requirements of Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Re-Authorization Act of 1986 and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. Bill has been an adjunct instructor at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland, and is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard's National Search and Rescue School From 1993 until 1999, Bill was a member of FEMA's National Urban Search and Rescue Advisory Committee and was Chairperson of the Advisory Committee's Operations Working Group. He responded as a Task Force Leader with the Puget Sound Task Force to the Northridge Earthquake, the Oklahoma City Bombing and on the FEMA Incident Support Team to Hurricane Opal. He was a FEMA liaison to the FBI's Bomb Management Center at the Atlanta Olympics. In October of 1997, Bill left Pierce County to become an Assistant Chief for Special Operations for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. His responsibilities there included training and administration of California's eight Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces and the development of the Regional Special Rescue Training Center in Sacramento. Since beginning his work with FEMA in April 1999, he has worked on a variety of assignments, including the response to Hurricane Floyd, the Oklahoma tornadoes, the Nisqually Earthquake and two weeks at "Ground Zero" at the World Trade Center in New York as part of FEMA's Forward Coordinating Team. He has served as FCO for 17 declared disasters in New Hampshire, Alaska, Idaho, Washington, Missouri, Indiana, American Samoa, Maryland, Guam, Saipan and Oregon. Bill's outside interests include mountaineering, skiing and photography. He has successfully climbed major peaks in Alaska, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and Africa, including a winter ascent of Mt. McKinley in 1980. He and his wife, Andrea, live in Tacoma, Washington.