The Department of Homeland Security is offering the FY2020 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 9 to close capability gaps in Housing and Logistics and Supply Chain Management. This grant is for building regional capacity and improving collaboration to manage catastrophic incidents.

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP), as appropriated by the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 (Pub. L. No. 116-93), provides resources to close known capability gaps in Housing and Logistics and Supply Chain Management core capabilities, encourages innovative regional solutions to issues related to catastrophic incidents, and builds on existing regional preparedness efforts. The purpose of the RCPGP is to build regional capacity to manage catastrophic incidents by improving and expanding collaboration for catastrophic incident preparedness. The National Response Framework (4th edition, 2019) defines a catastrophic incident as any natural or man-made incident, including terrorism, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale, or government functions. The regional interdependencies of effective prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery activities require a cohesive regional approach to catastrophic planning.