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brings a department into voluntary compliance with national standards will also receive a <br />high competitive rating, but not as high as the training that brings a department into <br />statutory compliance. Training that does not ha�e statutory compliance or voluntary <br />compliance with a national standard will receive a low competitive rating. <br />Due to the inherent differences between urban, suburban, and rural firefighting <br />characteristics, we ha�e developed different priorities in the training activity for <br />departments that service these different types of communities. However, CBRNE <br />awareness training has a high benefit and will receive the highest consideration regardless <br />of the type of community served. <br />For departments serving rural communities, we believe that funding basic, <br />operational-level firefighting, operational-level rescue, driver training, or first-responder <br />EMS, EMT-B, and EMT-I, (i.e., training in basic firefighting duties) has greater benefit <br />than funding officer training, safety officer training, or incident-commandtraining. In <br />rural communities, after basic training, there is a greater cost-benefit to officer training <br />than for other specialized types of training such as mass casualty, HazMat, advance <br />rescue and EMT, or inspector training for rural departments. <br />Conversely, for departments that are serving urban or suburban communities, we <br />believe there is a higher benefit to be gained by funding specialized training, such as <br />mass casualty, HazMat, advance rescue and EMS, or inspector training than the funding <br />of officer training, safety officer training, or operations training, which in turn has a <br />higher benefit than basic-, operational-, or awareness-level activities. Training <br />designatedto enhance multi jurisdictionalcapabilities will be afforded a slightly higher <br />rating. <br />2'� <br />