Item 18 - Resolution, Agreement, and Appropriation Adjustment Accepting the FY 2024 Emergency Management Performance Grant

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Preparedness Grants Manual . . Disaster Financial Management Guide: The Disaster Financial Management Guide provides guidance for SLTT partners on establishing and implementing sound disaster financial management practices. PDAT Training and Resources: The PDAT provides training and other resources to assist grant recipients in their efforts to comply with federal procurement standards. 12.8. Training and Exercises 12.8.1. INTEGRATED PREPAREDNESS PLAN Recipients are expected to engage senior leaders and other whole community stakeholders to identify preparedness priorities specific to training and exercise needs, which will guide development of a state/territory multi-year IPP. Like the EMPG Program Work Plan development process, these priorities should be informed by various factors, including jurisdiction-specific threats and hazards (i.e., the THIRA); areas for improvement identified by real-world events and exercises (i.e., AAR); external requirements such as stakeholder preparedness reviews (i.e., SPR), homeland security policy, and industry reports; and accreditation standards, regulations, or legislative requirements. Recipients must document these priorities, in conjunction with the Work Plan development process, and use them to deploy a schedule of preparedness events and activities in the IPP. Information related to IPPs and IPPWs can be found on the HSEEP page on FEMA.gov and FEMA’s Preparedness Toolkit. FEMA Regional staff can provide TA for IPP and IPPW development. Recipients should ensure that their EMPG Program Work Plans and IPPs align with and are complementary to one another and are used in tandem to support shared priorities for building and sustaining the state/territory’s preparedness capabilities. Recipients should include planning, training, and exercise projects in their EMPG Program Work Plan that support priorities included in their IPP. The current multi-year IPP must be submitted to hseep@fema.dhs.gov and the Regional EMPG Program Manager before Jan. 31 of each year. This will help ensure that priorities for both the IPP and EMPG Program Work Plan are based on building capability and/or closing capability gaps documented in their THIRA/SPR and other relevant sources of information. For example, if a recipient included Logistics and Distribution Management, Resilient Communications, and Housing as priorities for its IPP, those should also be priorities in its EMPG Program Work Plan. Additionally, IPPs should include all planning, training, and exercise activities funded by the EMPG Program as well as activities funded by other sources. This inclusion will ensure that recipients’ preparedness projects, investments, and activities are concentrated, focused, and oriented toward closing gaps related to their top priorities, regardless of funding source. 12.8.2. VALIDATING CAPABILITIES THROUGH EXERCISES All recipients are required to develop and maintain a progressive exercise program consistent with HSEEP guidance in support of the NEP. The NEP serves as the principal exercise mechanism for examining national preparedness and measuring readiness. The NEP is a two-year cycle of exercises across the nation that validates capabilities in all preparedness mission areas. The two-year NEP cycle is guided by Principals’ Strategic Priorities, established by the National Security Council, and informed by preparedness data from jurisdictions across the Nation. The NEP provides exercise sponsors the opportunity to receive exercise design and delivery assistance, tools and resources, enhanced coordination, and the ability to directly influence and 104