Common use of Disaster Response and Recovery Programs Clause in Contracts

Disaster Response and Recovery Programs. The following programs are authorized under Titles IV and V of the Xxxxxxxx Act. Public Assistance Program (PA) Purpose: This Program assists state, tribal, and local governments and certain types of private nonprofit organizations to respond to and recover from major disasters or emergencies declared by the President. Grants are provided for debris removal (Public Assistance Category A), emergency protective measures (Public Assistance Category B), and the repair, replacement, or restoration of disaster-damaged facilities (Public Assistance Categories C-G). During some events, state, tribal, and local governments may lack the capability to perform or to contract for eligible emergency work (Public Assistance Categories A and B). In such instances, the state may request that the work be accomplished by a federal agency. FEMA may either perform the work directly or, through a mission assignment (MA), may direct appropriate federal agencies to perform the eligible work. Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Purpose: The HMGP provides grants to state, tribal, and local governments to implement long- term hazard mitigation measures after a major disaster declaration. Activities may include buyouts, retrofits, relocations, elevations, and minor flood control projects. HMGP funds are disaster funds. Individual Assistance Programs (IA) Purpose: These programs helps ensure that individuals and families that have been affected by disasters have access to the full range of FEMA assistance including: crisis counseling (Section 416), disaster legal services (Section 415), essential assistance, including emergency sheltering (Section 403), transportation (Section 419), funeral services, minor home repairs (Section 408), and temporary housing assistance (Section 408). It should be noted that other federal agencies also provide disaster assistance to individuals, such as the US Small Business Administration, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Labor. Preparedness Grant Programs Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program (PDM) Purpose: The PDM Program provides competitive grants to state, tribal, and local governments for hazard mitigation planning and the implementation of mitigation projects before a disaster. Activities may include planning, buyouts, retrofits, relocations, elevations, minor flood control projects, and vegetative fuels reduction. Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FMA) Purpose: The FMA Program provides planning, project, or technical assistance grant funds to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to buildings and other structures insurable under the National Flood Insurance Program. Repetitive Flood Claims Program (RFC) Purpose: This program provides grant funds to reduce flood damages to insured properties that have had one or more claims to the National Flood Insurance Program. Severe Repetitive Loss Program (SRL) Purpose: This program provides grant funding to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to severe repetitive loss structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program. Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (ASFG) Purpose: The AFG program provides funding for purchase of equipment and retrofit or construction of fire stations to improve first responder capabilities. State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) Purpose: This assistance program provides funds to build capabilities at the state and local levels and to implement the goals and objectives included in state homeland security strategies and initiatives in the State Preparedness Report. Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Program Purpose: The UASI Program focuses on enhancing regional preparedness in major metropolitan areas. The UASI Program directly supports the National Priority on expanding regional collaboration in the National Preparedness Guidelines and is intended to assist participating jurisdictions in developing integrated regional systems for prevention, protection, response and recovery. Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) Program Purpose: The MMRS program supports the integration of emergency management, health, and medical systems into a coordinated response to mass casualty incidents caused by any hazard. Successful MMRS Grantees reduce the consequences of a mass casualty incident during the initial period of a response by having augmented existing local operational response systems before the incident occurs. Citizen Corps Program (CCP) Purpose: The Citizen Corps mission is to bring community and government leaders together to coordinate community involvement in emergency preparedness, planning, mitigation, response and recovery. State Homeland Security Program Tribal (SHSP Tribal) Purpose: This program provides supplemental funding to directly eligible Tribes to help strengthen the nation against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks. Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) Purpose: NSGP provides funding support for target-hardening activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist attack and are located within one of the specific UASI-eligible urban areas. Operation Stonegarden (OPSG) Purpose: The intent of OPSG is to enhance cooperation and coordination among local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in a joint mission to secure the United States borders along routes of ingress from international borders to include travel corridors in states bordering Mexico and Canada, as well as states and territories with international water borders. Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP) Purpose: The TSGP provides grant funding to the nation’s key high-threat urban areas to enhance security measures for their critical transit infrastructure including bus, ferry and rail systems. Freight Rail Security Grant Program (FRSGP) Purpose: The FRSGP funds security training for frontline employees, the completion of vulnerability assessments, the development of security plans within the freight rail industry and GPS tracking systems for railroad cars transporting toxic inhalation materials (TIH). Intercity Passenger Rail (Amtrak) Purpose: The purpose of the Intercity Passenger Rail (IPR) is to create a sustainable, risk-based effort to protect critical surface transportation infrastructure and the traveling public from acts of terrorism, major disasters, and other emergencies within the Amtrak rail system. Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) Purpose: The PSGP provides grant funding to port areas for the protection of critical port infrastructure from terrorism. PSGP funds are primarily intended to assist ports in enhancing maritime domain awareness; enhancing risk management capabilities to prevent, detect, respond to and recover from attacks involving improvised explosive devices (IEDs), weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and other non-conventional weapons; training and exercises; and Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) implementation. Intercity Bus Security Grant Program (IBSGP) Purpose: The IBSGP provides funding to create a sustainable program for the protection of intercity bus systems and the traveling public from terrorism. The program seeks to assist operators of fixed-route intercity and charter bus services in obtaining the resources required to support security measures such as enhanced planning, facility security upgrades and vehicle and driver protection. Trucking Security Program (TSP) Purpose: TSP funding will be awarded to eligible Subgrantees to implement security improvement measures and policies deemed valuable by DHS as indicated in the Security Action Items publication of June 26, 2008. These items are primarily focused on the purchase and installation or enhancement of equipment and systems related to tractor and trailer tracking systems. Additionally, the TSP will provide funding to develop a system for DHS to monitor, collect, and analyze tracking information; and develop plans to improve the effectiveness of transportation and distribution of supplies and commodities during catastrophic events. Buffer Zone Protection Program (BZPP) Purpose: The BZPP provides funding to increase the preparedness capabilities of jurisdictions responsible for the safety and security of communities surrounding high-priority pre-designated Tier 1 and Tier 2 critical infrastructure and key resource (CIKR) assets, including chemical facilities, financial institutions, nuclear and electric power plants, dams, stadiums and other high- risk/high-consequence facilities, through allowable planning and equipment acquisition. Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) Purpose: The purpose of the EMPG program is to assist state and local governments in enhancing and sustaining all-hazards emergency management capabilities. Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program (IECGP) Purpose: IECGP provides governance, planning, training and exercise and equipment funding to state, territory, and local and tribal governments to carry out initiatives to improve interoperable emergency communications, including communications in collective response to natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other man-made disasters. According to the legislation that created IECGP, all proposed activities must be integral to interoperable emergency communications and must be aligned with the goals, objectives and initiatives identified in the Grantee’s approved statewide Communication Interoperability Plans (SCIP). IECGP will also advance DHS near-term priorities that are deemed critical to improving interoperable emergency communications and are consistent with goals and objectives of the National Emergency Communications Plan.

Disaster Response and Recovery Programs. The following programs are authorized under Titles IV and V of the Xxxxxxxx Act. Public Assistance Program (PA) Purpose: This Program assists state, tribal, and local governments and certain types of private nonprofit organizations to respond to and recover from major disasters or emergencies declared by the President. Grants are provided for debris removal (Public Assistance Category A), emergency protective measures (Public Assistance Category B), and the repair, replacement, or restoration of disaster-damaged facilities (Public Assistance Categories C-G). During some events, state, tribal, and local governments may lack the capability to perform or to contract for eligible emergency work (Public Assistance Categories A and B). In such instances, the state may request that the work be accomplished by a federal agency. FEMA may either perform the work directly or, through a mission assignment (MA), may direct appropriate federal agencies to perform the eligible work. Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Purpose: The HMGP provides grants to state, tribal, and local governments to implement long- term hazard mitigation measures after a major disaster declaration. Activities may include buyouts, retrofits, relocations, elevations, and minor flood control projects. HMGP funds are disaster funds. Individual Assistance Programs (IA) Purpose: These programs helps help ensure that individuals and families that have been affected by disasters have access to the full range of FEMA assistance including: crisis counseling (Section 416), disaster legal services (Section 415), essential assistance, including emergency sheltering (Section 403), transportation (Section 419), funeral services, minor home repairs (Section 408), and temporary housing assistance (Section 408). It should be noted that other federal agencies also provide disaster assistance to individuals, such as the US Small Business Administration, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Labor. Preparedness Fire Management Assistance Grant Programs Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program (PDMFMAG) Purpose: The PDM Program provides competitive grants FMAG is available to state, tribalTribal, and local governments for hazard mitigation planning the mitigation, management, and the implementation control of mitigation projects before a disasterfires on publicly or privately owned lands. Activities Eligible costs may include planningexpenses for field camps, buyoutsequipment use, retrofitsrepair and replacement, relocations, elevations, minor flood control projectsmaterials and supplies, and vegetative fuels reduction. Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FMA) Purpose: The FMA Program provides planning, project, or technical assistance grant funds to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to buildings mobilization and other structures insurable under the National Flood Insurance Program. Repetitive Flood Claims Program (RFC) Purpose: This program provides grant funds to reduce flood damages to insured properties that have had one or more claims to the National Flood Insurance Program. Severe Repetitive Loss Program (SRL) Purpose: This program provides grant funding to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to severe repetitive loss structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program. Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (ASFG) Purpose: The AFG program provides funding for purchase of equipment and retrofit or construction of fire stations to improve first responder capabilities. State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) Purpose: This assistance program provides funds to build capabilities at the state and local levels and to implement the goals and objectives included in state homeland security strategies and initiatives in the State Preparedness Report. Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Program Purpose: The UASI Program focuses on enhancing regional preparedness in major metropolitan areas. The UASI Program directly supports the National Priority on expanding regional collaboration in the National Preparedness Guidelines and is intended to assist participating jurisdictions in developing integrated regional systems for prevention, protection, response and recovery. Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) Program Purpose: The MMRS program supports the integration of emergency management, health, and medical systems into a coordinated response to mass casualty incidents caused by any hazard. Successful MMRS Grantees reduce the consequences of a mass casualty incident during the initial period of a response by having augmented existing local operational response systems before the incident occurs. Citizen Corps Program (CCP) Purpose: The Citizen Corps mission is to bring community and government leaders together to coordinate community involvement in emergency preparedness, planning, mitigation, response and recovery. State Homeland Security Program Tribal (SHSP Tribal) Purpose: This program provides supplemental funding to directly eligible Tribes to help strengthen the nation against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks. Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) Purpose: NSGP provides funding support for target-hardening activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist attack and are located within one of the specific UASI-eligible urban areas. Operation Stonegarden (OPSG) Purpose: The intent of OPSG is to enhance cooperation and coordination among local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in a joint mission to secure the United States borders along routes of ingress from international borders to include travel corridors in states bordering Mexico and Canada, as well as states and territories with international water borders. Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP) Purpose: The TSGP provides grant funding to the nation’s key high-threat urban areas to enhance security measures for their critical transit infrastructure including bus, ferry and rail systems. Freight Rail Security Grant Program (FRSGP) Purpose: The FRSGP funds security training for frontline employees, the completion of vulnerability assessments, the development of security plans within the freight rail industry and GPS tracking systems for railroad cars transporting toxic inhalation materials (TIH). Intercity Passenger Rail (Amtrak) Purpose: The purpose of the Intercity Passenger Rail (IPR) is to create a sustainable, risk-based effort to protect critical surface transportation infrastructure and the traveling public from acts of terrorism, major disasters, and other emergencies within the Amtrak rail system. Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) Purpose: The PSGP provides grant funding to port areas for the protection of critical port infrastructure from terrorism. PSGP funds are primarily intended to assist ports in enhancing maritime domain awareness; enhancing risk management capabilities to prevent, detect, respond to and recover from attacks involving improvised explosive devices (IEDs), weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and other non-conventional weapons; training and exercises; and Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) implementation. Intercity Bus Security Grant Program (IBSGP) Purpose: The IBSGP provides funding to create a sustainable program for the protection of intercity bus systems and the traveling public from terrorism. The program seeks to assist operators of fixed-route intercity and charter bus services in obtaining the resources required to support security measures such as enhanced planning, facility security upgrades and vehicle and driver protection. Trucking Security Program (TSP) Purpose: TSP funding will be awarded to eligible Subgrantees to implement security improvement measures and policies deemed valuable by DHS as indicated in the Security Action Items publication of June 26, 2008. These items are primarily focused on the purchase and installation or enhancement of equipment and systems related to tractor and trailer tracking systems. Additionally, the TSP will provide funding to develop a system for DHS to monitor, collect, and analyze tracking information; and develop plans to improve the effectiveness of transportation and distribution of supplies and commodities during catastrophic events. Buffer Zone Protection Program (BZPP) Purpose: The BZPP provides funding to increase the preparedness capabilities of jurisdictions responsible for the safety and security of communities surrounding high-priority pre-designated Tier 1 and Tier 2 critical infrastructure and key resource (CIKR) assets, including chemical facilities, financial institutions, nuclear and electric power plants, dams, stadiums and other high- risk/high-consequence facilities, through allowable planning and equipment acquisition. Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) Purpose: The purpose of the EMPG program is to assist state and local governments in enhancing and sustaining all-hazards emergency management capabilities. Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program (IECGP) Purpose: IECGP provides governance, planning, training and exercise and equipment funding to state, territory, and local and tribal governments to carry out initiatives to improve interoperable emergency communications, including communications in collective response to natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other man-made disasters. According to the legislation that created IECGP, all proposed activities must be integral to interoperable emergency communications and must be aligned with the goals, objectives and initiatives identified in the Grantee’s approved statewide Communication Interoperability Plans (SCIP). IECGP will also advance DHS near-term priorities that are deemed critical to improving interoperable emergency communications and are consistent with goals and objectives of the National Emergency Communications Plandemobilization activities.

Disaster Response and Recovery Programs. The following programs are authorized under Titles IV and V of the Xxxxxxxx Act. Public Assistance Program (PA) Purpose: This Program assists state, tribal, and local governments and certain types of private nonprofit organizations to respond to and recover from major disasters or emergencies declared by the President. Grants are provided for debris removal (Public Assistance Category A), emergency protective measures (Public Assistance Category B), and the repair, replacement, or restoration of disaster-damaged facilities (Public Assistance Categories C-G). During some events, state, tribal, and local governments may lack the capability to perform or to contract for eligible emergency work (Public Assistance Categories A and B). In such instances, the state may request that the work be accomplished by a federal agency. FEMA may either perform the work directly orFEMA, through a mission assignment (MA), may direct appropriate federal agencies to perform the eligible work. Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Purpose: The HMGP provides grants to state, tribal, and local governments to implement long- term hazard mitigation measures after a major disaster declaration. Activities may include buyouts, retrofits, relocations, elevations, and minor flood control projects. HMGP funds are disaster funds. Individual Assistance Programs (IA) Purpose: These programs helps ensure that individuals and families that have been affected by disasters have access to the full range of FEMA assistance including: crisis counseling (Section 416), disaster legal services (Section 415), essential assistance, including emergency sheltering medical assistance (Section 403), transportation (Section 419), funeral services, minor home repairs (Section 408), and temporary housing assistance (Section 408). It should be noted that other federal agencies also provide disaster assistance to individuals, such as the US Small Business Administration, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Labor. Preparedness Grant Programs Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program (PDM) Purpose: The PDM Program provides competitive grants to state, tribal, and local governments for hazard mitigation planning and the implementation of mitigation projects before a disaster. Activities may include planning, buyouts, retrofits, relocations, elevations, minor flood control projects, and vegetative fuels reduction. Flood Mitigation Assistance Program (FMA) Purpose: The FMA Program provides planning, project, or technical assistance grant funds to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to buildings and other structures insurable under the National Flood Insurance Program. Repetitive Flood Claims Program (RFC) Purpose: This program provides grant funds to reduce flood damages to insured properties that have had one or more claims to the National Flood Insurance Program. Severe Repetitive Loss Program (SRL) Purpose: This program provides grant funding to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to severe repetitive loss structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program. Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (ASFG) Purpose: The AFG program provides funding for purchase of equipment and retrofit or construction of fire stations to improve first responder capabilities. State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) Purpose: This assistance program provides funds to build capabilities at the state and local levels and to implement the goals and objectives included in state homeland security strategies and initiatives in the State Preparedness Report. Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Program Purpose: The UASI Program focuses on enhancing regional preparedness in major metropolitan areas. The UASI Program directly supports the National Priority on expanding regional collaboration in the National Preparedness Guidelines and is intended to assist participating jurisdictions in developing integrated regional systems for prevention, protection, response and recovery. Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) Program Purpose: The MMRS program supports the integration of emergency management, health, and medical systems into a coordinated response to mass casualty incidents caused by any hazard. Successful MMRS Grantees reduce the consequences of a mass casualty incident during the initial period of a response by having augmented existing local operational response systems before the incident occurs. Citizen Corps Program (CCP) Purpose: The Citizen Corps mission is to bring community and government leaders together to coordinate community involvement in emergency preparedness, planning, mitigation, response and recovery. State Homeland Security Program Tribal (SHSP Tribal) Purpose: This program provides supplemental funding to directly eligible Tribes to help strengthen the nation against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks. Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) Purpose: NSGP provides funding support for target-hardening activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist attack and are located within one of the specific UASI-eligible urban areas. Operation Stonegarden (OPSG) Purpose: The intent of OPSG is to enhance cooperation and coordination among local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in a joint mission to secure the United States borders along routes of ingress from international borders to include travel corridors in states bordering Mexico and Canada, as well as states and territories with international water borders. Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP) Purpose: The TSGP provides grant funding to the nation’s key high-threat urban areas to enhance security measures for their critical transit infrastructure including bus, ferry and rail systems. Freight Rail Security Grant Program (FRSGP) Purpose: The FRSGP funds security training for frontline employees, the completion of vulnerability assessments, the development of security plans within the freight rail industry and GPS tracking systems for railroad cars transporting toxic inhalation materials (TIH). Intercity Passenger Rail (Amtrak) Purpose: The purpose of the Intercity Passenger Rail (IPR) is to create a sustainable, risk-based effort to protect critical surface transportation infrastructure and the traveling public from acts of terrorism, major disasters, and other emergencies within the Amtrak rail system. Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) Purpose: The PSGP provides grant funding to port areas for the protection of critical port infrastructure from terrorism. PSGP funds are primarily intended to assist ports in enhancing maritime domain awareness; enhancing risk management capabilities to prevent, detect, respond to and recover from attacks involving improvised explosive devices (IEDs), weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), and other non-conventional weapons; training and exercises; and Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) implementation. Intercity Bus Security Grant Program (IBSGP) Purpose: The IBSGP provides funding to create a sustainable program for the protection of intercity bus systems and the traveling public from terrorism. The program seeks to assist operators of fixed-route intercity and charter bus services in obtaining the resources required to support security measures such as enhanced planning, facility security upgrades and vehicle and driver protection. Trucking Security Program (TSP) Purpose: TSP funding will be awarded to eligible Subgrantees to implement security improvement measures and policies deemed valuable by DHS as indicated in the Security Action Items publication of June 26, 2008. These items are primarily focused on the purchase and installation or enhancement of equipment and systems related to tractor and trailer tracking systems. Additionally, the TSP will provide funding to develop a system for DHS to monitor, collect, and analyze tracking information; and develop plans to improve the effectiveness of transportation and distribution of supplies and commodities during catastrophic events. Buffer Zone Protection Program (BZPP) Purpose: The BZPP provides funding to increase the preparedness capabilities of jurisdictions responsible for the safety and security of communities surrounding high-priority pre-designated Tier 1 and Tier 2 critical infrastructure and key resource (CIKR) assets, including chemical facilities, financial institutions, nuclear and electric power plants, dams, stadiums and other high- risk/high-consequence facilities, through allowable planning and equipment acquisition. Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) Purpose: The purpose of the EMPG program is to assist state and local governments in enhancing and sustaining all-hazards emergency management capabilities. Interoperable Emergency Communications Grant Program (IECGP) Purpose: IECGP provides governance, planning, training and exercise and equipment funding to state, territory, and local and tribal governments to carry out initiatives to improve interoperable emergency communications, including communications in collective response to natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other man-made disasters. According to the legislation that created IECGP, all proposed activities must be integral to interoperable emergency communications and must be aligned with the goals, objectives and initiatives identified in the Grantee’s approved statewide Communication Interoperability Plans (SCIP). IECGP will also advance DHS near-term priorities that are deemed critical to improving interoperable emergency communications and are consistent with goals and objectives of the National Emergency Communications Plan.