MARYLAND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (MEMA)
11.555 PUBLIC SAFETY INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS
Program Description: Provides funding to States and Territories to enable and enhance public safety agencies' interoperable communications capabilities. The PSIC Grant Program is a one-time grant opportunity to enhance interoperable capabilities with respect to voice, data, and/or video signals and encourage the use of innovative cost-effective and spectrum-efficient technology solutions using or enabling 700 MHz.
Formula Description: The Public Safety Interoperable Communications Grant Program is 80% federally funded with a 20% match required.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 5,897,600 $ 9,340,741$0
Program Supported / Population Served: Statewide Domestic Preparedness
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
20.703 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Program Description: Provides funding for training and planning to increase state and local effectiveness in safely and efficiently handling hazardous materials accidents and incidents. Enhances implementation of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986. Encourages a comprehensive approach to emergency training and planning by incorporating the unique challenges of responses to transportation situations.
Formula Description: 80% federally funded; a 20% state match required.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 272,518 $ 199,485 $ 307,000
Program Supported / Population Served: Emergency Management statewide
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.001 INTEROPERABLE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS GRANT PROGRAM
Program Description: Provides governance, planning, training, and exercise funding to State governments to carry out initiatives to improve interoperable emergency communications, including communications in collective response to natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters.
FY11 (exp) FY1 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 1,148,025 $ 900,000 $ 0
Program Supported / Population Served:Statewide Domestic Preparedness
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.008 URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE
Program Description: Provides funding to selected urban areas, strengthening their capability to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks. Funds are used to procure unique equipment, training, planning, and exercises to protect large high threat urban areas. Funding builds and enhances sustainable capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from threats or acts of terrorism.
FY11(exp) FY12 (approp) FY13(est)
$ 9,674,983 $13,557,836 $16,000,000
Program Supported / Population Served:Statewide Domestic Preparedness
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.023 COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Program Description: Provides community support to comply with National Flood Insurance Program regulations. National Flood Insurance regulation compliance results in the reduction of future flood losses. Provides community technical assistance to achieve and maintain compliance, by meeting negotiated objectives for reducing community flood hazards.
Formula Description: The Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Grant is 75% federally funded with a 25% match required.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 110,000 $ 110,000 $ 120,000
Program Supported / Population Served: StatewideEmergency Management
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.029 FLOOD MITIGATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Program Description: Supports flood mitigation planning at the state and community level, implementing flood mitigation projects, and providing technical assistance to communities. Supports efforts to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to buildings, manufactured homes, and other insurable structures. Funding enhances state mitigation programs and directly assists communities in reducing repetitive loss of life, loss of property and human suffering resulting from flood disasters.
Formula Description: The Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Grant is 75% federally funded with a 25% match required.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 50,000 $ 20,000 $ 10,000
Program Supported / Population Served: StatewideEmergency Management
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.036 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
Program Description: Provides funding to alleviate the financial burden on state and local governments and certain private, nonprofit organizations following federally declared disasters. Funds allow for response and recovery from the disaster and mitigate the impact of future disasters.
Formula Description: There is a 25% state or local matching requirement for this program.
FY11 (act) FY12 (act) FY13 (est)
$ 84,237,822 $ 41,351,578$ 19,487,144
Program Supported / Population Served:State/Local Governments
97.039 HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT
Program Description: Supports state programs and activities lessening the impact of disasters on lives and communities through damage prevention. Funds support measures such as creating and enforcing effective building codes to protect property from floods, hurricanes, and other natural hazards.
Formula Description: The program requires 25% state or local matching.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 80,000 $ 1,138,000 $11,000,000
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.042 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANT
Program Description: Improves emergency management preparedness and mitigation capability and establishes an accelerated pattern of all-hazard risk reduction within jurisdictions. Ensures state and local government effectiveness in alleviating human suffering and property damage resulting from catastrophic disasters. Enhances and
supports preparedness and mitigation efforts of the state and the ability to respond and recover from all hazards.
Formula Description: 50% federally funded, with 50% state and local matching funds.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 3,634,660 $ 6,802,747$ 6,800,000
Program Supported / Population Served: Statewide Emergency Management
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.047 PRE-DISASTER MITIGATION PROGRAM
Program Description: Implements cost-effective hazard mitigation activities complementing comprehensive mitigation programs. Enhances mitigation programs and directly assists communities in reducing repetitive loss of life and property and human suffering resulting from catastrophic disasters. States are required to have a Standard State Mitigation Plan to receive Pre-Disaster Mitigation funds.
Formula Description: There is a 25% match requirement for this program.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 82,235 $ 60,000$ 40,000
Program Supported / Population Served:StatewideEmergency Management
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.053 CITIZEN CORPS
Program Description: Supports programs training individuals in their neighborhoods, workplaces and schools in basic disaster response skills, including fire suppression, urban search and rescue, and medical operations. Helps the community take a more active role in emergency preparedness.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 150,685 $ 293,216$ 312,000
Program Supported/Population Served: Statewide Emergency Management
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.056 PORT SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM
Program Description: Provides grant funding to port areas for the protection of critical port infrastructure from terrorism. PSGP funds help ports enhance their risk management capabilities, domain awareness, training and exercises, and capabilities to prevent, detect,
respond to, and recover from attacks involving improvised explosive devices and other non-conventional weapons.
Formula Description: There is a 25% match requirement for this program.
FY11 (exp) FY11 (approp) FY12 (est)
$ 1,534,073 $ 5,130,502$ 13,200,000
Program Supported / Population Served:Statewide Domestic Preparedness
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.067 STATE HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM
Program Description: Provides funding for a confluence of important initiatives enhancing preparedness to combat terrorism. The program builds on progress made toward enhancing capabilities of state and local public safety personnel. This program provides the means to enhance prevention and response to terrorist attacks. Funding expanded to include terrorist incident prevention equipment, and to conduct exercises focusing on terrorist act prevention. Provides planning and administrative funds to support the update and implementation of State Homeland Strategic Plans. Funds training, security personnel costs, public safety overtime costs, and National Guard deployment costs incurred, when augmenting critical infrastructure security during periods of high alert.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 15,900,000 $ 16,425,000$ 16,000,000
Program Supported / Population Served: StatewideDomestic Preparedness
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.071 METROPOLITAN MEDICAL RESPONSE SYSTEM
Program Description: Assists designated localities with funding to write plans, develop training, purchase equipment and pharmaceuticals, and conduct exercises related to catastrophic incidents, whether terrorist or natural disaster. Enables jurisdictions to enhance local capability to respond to mass casualty events during the first hours of a response until significant external assistance can arrive.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY12 (est)
$ 321,221 $ 321,221 $ 317,419
Program Supported / Population Served:StatewideDomestic Preparedness
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.078BUFFER ZONE PROTECTION PROGRAM
Program Description: Provides funds to support implementation of Buffer Zone Plans outside the perimeter of identified Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources sites. The plans are intended to develop effective protective measures that make it more difficult for terrorists to conduct surveillance or launch attacks within the immediate vicinity of high priority critical infrastructure targets.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp) FY13 (est)
$ 350,393 $1,082,921$ 771,945
Program Supported / Population Served: StatewideDomestic Preparedness
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
97.111REGIONAL CATASTROPHIC PREPAREDNESS GRANT PROGRAM
Program Description: Enhances catastrophic incident preparedness in selected high-risk, high-consequence urban areas and their surrounding regions. RCPGP is intended to support coordination of regional all-hazard planning for catastrophic events, including the development of integrated planning communities, plans, protocols and procedures to manage a catastrophic event.
FY11 (exp) FY12 (approp)FY13 (est)
$ 364,298 $ 1,044,455$ 250,000
Program Supported / Population Served:StatewideEmergency Management
Governor’s Goal # 6Make Maryland the National Leader in Homeland Security Preparedness by End 2012
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