FY25 (EMPG) Emergency Management Performance Grants

To support a comprehensive, all-hazard emergency preparedness system by building and sustaining the core capabilities contained in the National Preparedness Goal Objectives and Goals To support a comprehensive, all-hazard emergency preparedness system by building and sustaining the core capabilities contained in the National Preparedness Goal. Examples include: Completing the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) process; Strengthening a state or community's emergency management governance structures; Updating and approving specific emergency plans; Designing and conducting exercises that enable whole community stakeholders to examine and validate core capabilities and the plans needed to deliver them to the targets identified through the THIRA; Targeting training and verifying identified capabilities; Initiating or achieving a whole community approach to security and emergency management.

ICR is allowable under the EMPG grant program.

Accredited emergency management agencies

Enabling Legislation Section 662 of the Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act (6 U.S.C § 762) and the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. § 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, as amended (Pub. L. No. 95-124) (42 U.S.C. §§ 7701 et seq.); and the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended (Pub. L. No. 90-448) (42 U.S.C. §§ 4001 et seq.).

Nichole Horn 217-524-7890 Nichole.Horn@illinois.gov