HeaterMeals Available Through FEMA/DHS Grants

     "We applied and received FEMA monies last year for Heater Meals EX for emergency use for our meals on wheels clients and other elderly persons."

---Howard Ostby, Director
    Senior Round Table Nutrition Program
    Walla Walla, WA

This notice serves to clarify that the purchase of critical emergency supplies (such as shelf stable food products, water, and basic medical supplies), first identified as an allowable expense under both the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) and Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) Program, will continue to be allowable expenses in these respective FY 2010 programs.  The allowability of critical emergency supplies under these two programs will continue indefinitely unless otherwise noted.  As noted in FY 2009, and continuing to be applicable unless otherwise noted, each State must have FEMA’s approval of a viable inventory management plan, an effective distribution strategy, sustainment costs for such an effort, and logistics expertise to avoid situations where funds are wasted because supplies are rendered ineffective due to lack of planning. 

Please don’t hesitate to contact your FEMA Program Analyst should you have any questions.

Thank You,

CSID

Grant Programs Directorate

Federal Emergency Management Agency

U.S. Department of Homeland Security