All submissions will be received by no later than 11:59 p.m. EDT, June 20, 2011. Late applications will neither be considered nor reviewed. Only applications started through http://www.grants.gov and completed through the ND Grants system located at https://portal.fema.gov will be accepted.
The FY 2011 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP), builds on several initiatives to address this challenge, including Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101 (CPG 101). RCPGP is an important part of the Administration’s larger, coordinated effort to strengthen planning and homeland security preparedness. RCPGP implements objectives addressed in a series of post-9/11 legislation, strategies, plans, and Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPD). In FY 2011, RCPGP will focus on demonstrating the progress made by the original 10 RCPGP sites and identifying remaining gaps. Grantees are expected to implement the Whole Community Philosophy, which ensures the engagement of the entire community in the planning process, in all RCPGP efforts. Additionally, grantees are encouraged to focus on improving catastrophic plans already under development through the use of a “meta-scenario” that draws from the largest planning factors contained within the hazards previously identified by the site as the basis for their planning efforts. The following three fundamentals set the foundation for RCPGP objectives and deliverables and need to be addressed when identifying projects and developing the RCPGP grant application: (1) Fix Shortcomings in Existing Plans. Activities within this program must address shortcomings in existing plans to address regional catastrophic planning issues. During this program year shortcomings should be those identified through the exercise and evaluation of deliverables from prior funding cycles; (2) Build Regional Planning Process and Planning Communities. Grantees are expected to continue to build and maintain the simplest achievable processes, networks, and community that can successfully accomplish planning, preparedness, data exchange, and operational resource and asset management within the RCPGP site and among regional planning partners. Grantees must ensure that these processes, networks, and communities are fully integrated with other established planning efforts, such as Area Maritime Security Plans (AMSPs) for port areas and Citizen Corps Councils for community preparedness; (3) Link Operational and Capabilities-Based Planning for Resource Allocation. Grantees should focus on collaborative planning that organizes actions among the RCPGP site and includes participating governments, and non-governmental entities, including the private sector, to accomplish operational objectives, achieve unity of effort, and employ specific capabilities within a given time and space. Planning activities within this program should identify capability requirements (shortfalls) among grantees that establish requirements for resource allocation. These requirements should consider the needs of all grantees, including those of host communities or States that would expect to receive and provide support for evacuees from a catastrophically affected Urban Area. Over the course of the first three RCPGP grant cycles, the original 10 RCPGP sites developed projects focused on enhancing their regional preparedness for catastrophic incidents. In FY 2008 and FY 2009, the sites focused on the development of new regionally-coordinated plans based on the scenarios deemed most likely for their region, as well as the development of regional planning processes and planning communities. In FY 2010, each site focused on preparing for the implementation of those plans and processes by addressing training, exercising, and evaluation needs to ensure the plans meet the needs of their region. In FY 2011, funding objectives for the original 10 RCPGP sites are as follows: (1) Demonstrate the site’s progress since FY 2008; (2) Identify remaining gaps by exercising and reporting on the components developed/enhanced through RCPGP efforts; (3) Identify a sustainability approach for the maintenance of RCPGP products through separate funding sources; (4) Implement the Whole Community Philosophy to ensure engagement of the entire community in the planning process, retrofitting existing plans as necessary. Funds provided to the original 10 RCPGP sites should be used to develop and implement exercises to evaluate the regional catastrophic plans and capabilities developed in the first three grant cycles. Grantees are expected to conduct functional exercises, as well as at least one full scale exercise, and to develop a report summarizing their progress and the ability of the plans to address regional catastrophic needs. Sites are also expected to evaluate their findings and develop corrective action plans as needed. Grantees are also expected to implement the Whole Community Philosophy in all RCPGP planning efforts. The Whole Community Philosophy approach seeks to improve the Nation’s preparedness for catastrophic events by promoting continuous collaboration with all members of the community. This concept is consistent with, and expands upon, existing emergency preparedness and response systems and doctrine such as the National Response Framework (NRF) and National Incident Management System (NIMS). The Whole Community Philosophy promotes the shift from a "government-centric" approach to a community-based approach of self-aid/self-help and identifying a series of core capabilities that are essential and indispensable to the success of response to and recovery from a catastrophic incident. This concept views the public as an asset and encourages collaboration with new partners that can contribute atypical solutions to deal with the risks their community faces. Communities are encouraged to think outside of the box in terms of resources and concepts of operations, understanding that regulatory waivers, alternative standards of care, and policy changes may be necessary.
They FY10 appropriation for the RCPGP program was $33,600,000. Participants in previous RCPGP grant cycles have begun to develop the foundational ways and means that will result in truly inter-jurisdictional, regional, catastrophic planning. During the first three years of RCPGP, FEMA’s National Preparedness Directorate (NPD) funded over $121 million in projects from 10 sites, which focused on a variety of capabilities, threats, and hazards. Initially, sites focused their projects by using the scenarios that addressed the primary threats facing their region. The scenarios selected by sites collectively spanned all 15 National Planning Scenarios identified in the National Preparedness Guidelines, with the most common scenarios selected being Bombing Using Improvised Explosive Devises, Aerosol Anthrax, Major Earthquake, and Pandemic Influenza. At the end of the first three grant cycles, the 10 original RCPGP sites will have developed new regionally-coordinated plans focused on the scenarios deemed most appropriate for their region and prepared for the implementation of those plans by addressing the need to train, exercise, and evaluate/improve the plans to meet the needs of the region.
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