The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Emergency Management Performance Grant Program COVID-19 Supplemental (EMPG-S) assists states, territories, tribes, and local governments with their public health and emergency management activities supporting the prevention of, preparation for, and response to the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency. Through this funding opportunity, FEMA will award funding to support planning and operational readiness for COVID-19 preparedness and response, development of tools and strategies for prevention, preparedness, and response, and ongoing communication and coordination among federal, State, local, tribal, and territorial partners throughout the response.
The FY 2020 EMPG-S program will provide funds to assist State, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management agencies with preventing, preparing for, and responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
In general, the priorities under this funding opportunity will address the States response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. In keeping with FEMA Administrator Gaynors priorities as outlined in his March 27, 2020 letter to emergency managers, FEMA encourages funding to be used for:
- Mitigation activities (related to slowing the spread of COVID-19);
- Integration of emergency management and public health operations;
- Collection and display of public, private, and governmental data of hospital bed and ventilator capacity and usage;
- Collection and display of PPE inventories and establishment of burn rates to forecast future needs;
- Planning for alternate care sites;
- Identifying all sources to surge medical professionals.
EMPG-S funding also can be used to assist emergency managers with implementing community lifelines to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency. The lifelines concept simplifies incident information to provide decision makers with clearly identified impacts to critical community services and root causes that inform response and recovery actions.
Examples of areas eligible for funding under this funding opportunity include, but are not limited to:
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Plan Development
- Jurisdictional Recovery
- Information Sharing
- Emergency Public Information and Warning and Risk Communication
- Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Development of Distribution Management Plans
None is available.
Federal funds made available through this award may only be used for the purpose set forth in this award and must be consistent with the statutory authority for the award. Award funds may not be used for matching funds for any other Federal award, lobbying, or intervention in Federal regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings. In addition, Federal funds may not be used to sue the Federal government or any other government entity.
EMPG-S recipients may only fund activities and projects that are for the purpose of preventing, preparing for, and responding to the coronavirus and are allowable within the rules prescribed by this NOFO. Funds under this award shall not be used for activities unrelated to coronavirus prevention, preparedness, or response.