APHIS Animal Care is offering this grant to enhance national animal emergency preparedness through practical exercises. This grant is for supporting projects that align with four key priorities. These include fostering multi-jurisdictional resource coordination for companion animals during disasters, developing and testing ‘just-in-time’ training for emergent volunteers in animal sheltering, and creating specifications for effective animal containment systems using readily available materials for emergency use. Additionally, funding supports contingency planning exercises simulating foreign animal disease outbreaks impacting Animal Welfare Act-regulated facilities, such as zoos. The goal is to improve response capabilities, volunteer utilization, infrastructure solutions, and disease containment strategies in animal emergencies.
Opportunity ID: 79533
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | USDA-GRANTS031611-001 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Animal Emergency Management Exercises |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Agriculture |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 10.025 — Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Mar 16, 2011 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | May 02, 2011 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | May 02, 2011 |
| Archive Date: | Jun 01, 2011 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | State government organizations (such as State Departments of Agriculture or Emergency Management, Government-operated Animal Control Agencies, or other Government Agencies including State Land-Grant Universities), Federally recognized Tribal Governments, and U.S. Territorial government agencies |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
| Description: | APHIS Animal Care is seeking proposals that are consistent with one of the following key priority areas. These priorities cover a wide range of activities and ideally, one project could be awarded for each priority. 1. Catastrophic Planning Multi-Jurisdictional Resource Coordination A multi-state/tribal nation/territory disaster response exercise pertaining to companion animal issues a. Suggested features of the exercise scenario Include actual or simulated coordination units for household pets at the State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) (or at a supporting agency EOC, if appropriate), a FEMA Initial Operating Facility (IOF) or Joint Field Office (JFO), FEMA Regional Resource Coordination Centers (RRCCs), and APHIS EOC. Include multiple state, tribal, territorial requesting actions (such as Action Request Forms requesting Federal assistance, State-to-State mutual aid via the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), and requests to non-governmental organizations). b. Suggested collaboration Include roles for federal ESF #6, ESF #11, and FEMA Operations State Departments of Agriculture and Emergency Management Multiple states, tribal nations, or territories in more than one FEMA region Member organizations of the National Animal Rescue and Sheltering Coalition (NARSC) 2. Catastrophic Planning Just-In-Time Training An exercise that identifies animal sheltering job functions that could be performed by emergent volunteers, and develops/documents just-in-time training for emergent volunteers on how to successfully perform those animal shelter functions to augment deployed staffing when fully trained personnel resources are limited or unavailable (such as during a catastrophic incident) a. Suggested features of the exercise scenario Limit scope to animal sheltering/mass care services Identify job functions that could be performed safely and appropriately by emergent volunteers Prepare lesson plans and training materials to provide just-in-time training to emergent volunteers Pilot/test delivery of training materials and revise materials based on pilot feedback b. Suggested collaboration APHIS, Animal Care State Departments of Agriculture, Emergency Management, or Office of Volunteerism, or Land-Grant Universities State Animal Response Teams (SARTs), local animal control agencies, or animal welfare organizations Member organizations of the National Animal Rescue and Sheltering Coalition (NARSC) National Alliance of State Animal and Agricultural Emergency Programs (NASAAEP) Sheltering Best Practice Working Group 3. Catastrophic Planning Animal Containment Systems An exercise that tests and develops best practice specification sheets for the construction of safe and effective animal caging and kenneling facilities from readily available materials (such as panels, wire fencing, etc.) for use in a catastrophic incident when factory-built animal cages and kennels are not available or supplies are insufficient a. Suggested features of the exercise scenario Design and produce a limited number of cages and kennels Evaluate cost and usability of fabricated cages and kennels (functionality, durability, safety, cleaning, etc.) Prepare technical sheets for the reproduction of usable designs b. Suggested collaboration APHIS, Animal Care State Departments of Agriculture or Emergency Management State Animal Response Teams (SARTs), local animal control agencies, or animal welfare organizations Member organizations of the National Animal Rescue and Sheltering Coalition (NARSC) NASAAEP Sheltering Best Practice Working Group 4. Contingency Planning for AWA-Regulated Facilities Foreign Animal Disease Outbreak An exercise scenario simulating a foreign animal disease outbreak affecting or threatening one or more zoological facilities a. Suggested features of the exercise scenario Conduct a workshop or tabletop exercise Engage appropriate local, state, tribal, and territorial animal health officials b. Suggested collaboration APHIS: Veterinary Services, Animal Care State, local, tribal, or territorial animal health officials At least one national zoological network or association One or more zoological facilities |
| Link to Additional Information: | APHIS Website that contains the Full Announcement, Workplan and Budget Format |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Eileen Berke
Management Analyst Phone 301-734-8330 Email:eileen.m.berke@aphis.usda.gov |
Version History
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Eileen Berke Management Analyst Phone 301-734-8330 Email: eileen.m.berke@aphis.usda.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.025 | PKG00040870 | Mar 16, 2011 | May 02, 2011 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
79533 SF424-2.0.pdf
79533 SF424B-1.1.pdf
79533 SF424A-1.0.pdf
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