Forwarding:
A handy guide to translating Emergency Management Terms and Acronyms is the "Fat Book". The FAAT List is a handy reference for the myriad acronyms and abbreviations used within the federal government, emergency management and first response communities.Leave it to FEMA to use an acronym to describe an acronym ....
Anyway, the document can be downloaded at: http://www.fema.gov/plan/prepare/faat.shtm