Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Emergency Management Performance Grant Program - Region 8

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) Program is a grant program that supports the goal to Strengthen National Preparedness and Resilience. The program provides funds to assist State, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management agencies to implement the National Preparedness System and the National Preparedness Goal. The program has a cost-share requirement, and applicants must agree to make available non-Federal funds to carry out an EMPG award in an amount not less than 50 percent of the total project cost. The program also requires applicants to develop and submit a Work Plan that outlines the State’s emergency management sustainment and enhancement efforts. • The program supports the goals of Building a Culture of Preparedness and Readying the Nation for Catastrophic Disasters. • The program provides funding to support emergency management agencies in implementing the National Preparedness System and the National Preparedness Goal. • The program has a cost-share requirement, and applicants must agree to make available non-Federal funds to carry out an EMPG award. • The program requires applicants to develop and submit a Work Plan that outlines the State’s emergency management sustainment and enhancement efforts. • The program supports the implementation of community lifelines, which simplifies incident information to provide decision makers with clearly identified impacts to critical community services and root causes that inform response and recovery actions.