Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness (HMEP) Grant Program (Indiana)

 
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    Funder Type

    State Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Indiana Department of Homeland Security (IDHS)

    Summary

    The purpose of the Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness (HMEP) Grant Program is to increase State and local effectiveness in safely and efficiently handling hazardous materials accidents and incidents; enhance implementation of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA); and encourage a comprehensive approach to emergency planning and training by incorporating the unique challenges of responses to transportation situations. The HMEP Grant Program is intended to provide financial and technical assistance as well as national direction and guidance to enhance state, territorial, tribal, and local hazardous materials emergency planning and training. The program distributes fees collected from shippers and carriers of hazardous materials to emergency responders for Hazardous Material (Hazmat) training and to Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) for Hazmat planning and training. HMEP Grant objectives include:

    1. Developing and Enhancing Hazmat emergency response plans (ERPs)
    2. Determining flow patterns of hazardous materials
    3. Conducting hazard analysis
    4. Conducting emergency response drills and exercises of Hazmat ERPs
    5. Assessing local response capabilities

    There are two categories for funding through this program in 2012:

    1. Planning - The primary objective of the planning grant is to develop, improve and implement emergency plans under the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA), as well as determine the need for regional hazardous materials emergency response teams, and conduct commodity flow studies; and,
    2. Training - The primary objective of the training grant is to train public sector employees to respond safely and efficiently to accident and incidents involving (including the transportation of) hazardous materials.
     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    HMEP Planning Grant MAY fund these activities:

    1. Development, improvement, and implementation of emergency plans required under the EPCRA, as well as exercises that test the emergency plans, or enhancement of existing emergency plans to include hazards analysis, as well as response procedures for emergencies involving transportation of hazardous materials, including radioactive materials
    2. An assessment to determine the flow patterns of hazardous materials to include Radioactive US DOT Class 7 shipments within the state, between states or Native American lands, and development and maintenance of a system to keep such information current
    3. An assessment of the need for regional hazardous materials emergency response teams or of local response capabilities
    4. Conduction of emergency response drills and exercises to assess ERPs
    5. Provision of technical staff to support the planning effort (Staff funded under planning grants cannot be diverted to support other requirements of EPCRA.)
    6. Other allowable expenses as indicated in 49 CFR part 110
    7. Additional activities the Indiana HMEP Grants Administrator and the DOT Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety (AAHMS) deem appropriate to implement the scope of work for the proposed project plan and approved in the grant.

    The HMEP Training Grant MAY fund these activities:

    1. Delivery of comprehensive preparedness and response training to public sector employees
    2. Training by a person and activities necessary to monitor such training including examinations, critiques and instructor evaluation
    3. Management of the training effort to achieve increased benefits, proficiency, and rapid deployment of public service employees who respond to accidents and incidents involving hazardous materials
    4. Emergency response drills and exercises, including Orientations, Drills, Tabletop exercises, functional exercises, and full-scale exercises associated with ERPs
    5. Allowable supplies/expendables for use in exercises
    6. Consumable materials for planning and execution of exercises (copy fees, writing utensils, etc).
    7. Salaries of instructors to manage the training effort designed to result in increased benefits, proficiency and rapid deployment of local and regional responders are allowable up to 25% of the total grant awarded.
    8. Additional activities the HMEP Grants Administrator and the DOT AAHMS deems appropriate to implement the scope of work for the proposed project plan and approved in the grant.

     

    Contacts

    John Steel

    John Steel
    Indiana Department of Homeland Security
    Department of Planning and Assessment: Grants Division
    302 W. Washington Street
    Room 220E
    Indianapolis, IL 46204

    http://www.in.gov/dhs/files/FY_2012_HMEP_GUIDANCE.pdfjsteel@dhs.in.gov

     

  • Eligibility Details

    Federal Hazardous Material Law authorizes the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to provide assistance to public sector employees through planning and training grants to states, territories, and Native American tribes for emergency response. Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) in Indiana which are compliant with state statue IC 13-25-1-6 (overseen by the Indiana Emergency Response Commission [IERC]) are eligible to receive funding through these planning and training grants.

    Deadline Details

    The application deadline was August 1, 2011. Similar deadlines are anticipated annually.

    Award Details

    The HMEP grant specifies two (2) categories of funding: PLANNING and TRAINING. Annual grant awards from DOT to Indiana may total approximately $483,256; of which the state may use 75% on behalf of LEPCs. Federally identified activities congruent with the HMEP objectives include conducting commodity flow assessments, hazards analysis, drills and exercises; assessing local response capabilities; enhancing emergency plans, and training conferences or courses.

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