Federal Grants Administration

Emergency Management Performance Grant Documents
The events surrounding Hurricanes Katrina and Rita highlighted the critical importance of effective catastrophic all-hazards planning. As part of this effort, State and local jurisdictions must engage in comprehensive national and regional planning processes that seek to enhance emergency management and catastrophic capabilities through strengthened national and regional relationships and the allocation of resources toward all-hazards planning, including maintaining current hazard mitigation plans.

The Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) program provides resources to assist State and local governments to sustain and enhance all-hazards emergency management capabilities. States have the opportunity to use EMPG funds to further strengthen their ability to support emergency management activities while simultaneously addressing issues of national concern as identified in the National Priorities of the National Preparedness Guidelines.  EMPG has a 50 percent Federal and 50 percent State cost-share cash or in-kind match requirement.

Click here for forms and publications related to the EMPG program.

ADEM Strategic Plan
This Strategic Plan groups the Division's goals, objectives, performance measures and action plans within two principal categories:

• Operational Performance which encompasses the operational aspects of hazard mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery, and the State Emergency Response Commission
• Customer Service consisting of the assessment and response to internal and external customer satisfaction and fiscal management.

New Information Below
Grantees are reminded to review the following documents and ensure that grant activities are conducted in accordance with the applicable guidance:

OMB CIRCULARS

ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS
OMB Circular A-102, Grants and Cooperative Agreements with State and Local Governments, at

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/index.html

OMB Circular A-110, Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and other Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals and Other Non-Profit Organizations, at

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/index.html

COST PRINCIPLES
OMB Circular A-87, Cost Principles for State, Local and Indian Tribal Governments, at

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/index.html

AUDIT REQUIREMENTS
OMB Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations (06/24/1997) (includes revisions published in Federal Register 06/27/2003), at

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/index.html

GOVERNMENTWIDE COMMON RULES
"Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements with State and Local Unites of Governments," (codified at 28 CFR part 66). (Grants Management Common Rule for State and Local Units of Governments.)

"Government wide Debarment and Suspension (Non procurement)" (codified at 28 CFR part 27) and "Government wide Requirements for Drug-Free Workplace (Grants)" (codified at 28 CFR Part 83). "New Restrictions on Lobbying" (codified at 28 CFR Part 69).

CONTACT
For additional information on any of these programs, contact us for assistance.