Item 18 - Adopt Resolution for FY 2021 Emergency Management Performance Grant

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HSGP Appendix | February 2021 Page A-31 UAWG Responsibilities UAWGs must ensure that applications for funding under the UASI program support closing capability gaps or sustaining capabilities identified in the high-risk urban area’s THIRA/SPR. The UAWG should support state efforts to develop the SPR, particularly as it relates to UASI-funded activities. The UAWG, in coordination with the SAA POC, must develop a methodology for allocating funding available through the UASI program. The UAWG must reach consensus on all UASI funding allocations. If consensus cannot be reached within the 45-day period allotted for the state to obligate funds to subrecipients, the SAA must make the allocation determination. The SAA must provide written documentation verifying the consensus of the UAWG or the failure to achieve otherwise on the allocation of funds and submit it to FEMA immediately after the 45-day period allotted for the state to obligate funds to subrecipients. Any UASI funds retained by the state must be used in direct support of the high-risk urban area. States must provide documentation to the UAWG, and FEMA upon request, demonstrating how any UASI funds retained by a state are directly supporting the high-risk urban area. UAWG Charter In keeping with sound project management practices, the UAWG must ensure that its approach to critical issues such as membership, governance structure, voting rights, grant management and administration responsibilities, and funding allocation methodologies are formalized in a working group charter or another form of standard operating procedure related to the UASI program governance. The charter must also outline how decisions made in UAWG meetings will be documented and shared with UAWG members. The UAWG charter must be submitted at the time of application as an attachment in ND Grants and must be on file with FEMA prior to drawing down UASI funding. It also must be available to all UAWG members to promote transparency in decision making related to the UASI program. Supplemental SHSP and UASI Guidance Collaboration Collaboration with Other Federal Preparedness Programs FEMA strongly encourages states, high-risk urban areas, tribes, and territories to understand other federal preparedness programs in their jurisdictions and to work with them in a collaborative manner to leverage all available resources and avoid duplicative activities. For example, HHS has two robust preparedness programs—CDC’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement and ASPR’s Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) cooperative agreement—that focus on preparedness capabilities. CDC’s 15 public health preparedness capabilities and ASPR’s 4 healthcare preparedness capabilities serve as operational components for many of the core capabilities, and collaboration with the PHEP directors and HPP coordinators can build capacity around shared interests and investments that fall in the scope of these HHS cooperative agreements and the HSGP. States and urban areas should coordinate among the entire scope of federal partners, national initiatives, and grant programs to identify opportunities to leverage resources when implementing their preparedness programs. These may include but are not limited to: Medical Reserve Corps; Emergency Medical Services for Children grants; ASPR HPP; CDC PHEP; CDC Cities Readiness Initiative; Strategic National Stockpile Programs; EMS; DOJ grants; the Department of Defense 1033 Program (also known as the LESO Program); and the Resilience Directorate/Office of Infrastructure Protection’s (OIP) Regional Resilience Assessment Program (RRAP). However, coordination is not limited to grant funding. It also includes leveraging assessments such a Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) Baseline Assessment for Security Enhancement (BASE), reporting from the Intelligence Community, risk