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FY 2006 HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM - DECEMBER 2, 2005 preparedness funding sources can be effectively utilized in a collaborative manner to support the enhancement of these capabilities. State health, homeland security, and emergency management organizations are encouraged to seek out, coordinate, and collaborate with one another to better understand progress made to date and to scope future activity under this priority. Benchmarks for implementation of this National Priority include: . Prepare jurisdictions to provide oral medications during an event to their entire population within 48 hours via a network of points of dispensing (PODs) staffed with trained/exercised paid and volunteer staff. . Conduct planning, training, exercises to pre-identity the staff, hospital beds, and other resources that can be deployed or used following a catastrophic event. e.S. National Review of Emer!!encv Operations Plans and the Status of Catastrophic Plannin!! The devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina focused the Nation on the importance of emergency operations planning for catastrophic incidents. As a result, in addition to the seven National Priorities outlined in the Goal, the FY 2006 HSGP adds an additional priority that emphasizes emergency operations and catastrophic planning. As defined by the NRP, a catastrophic incident is any natural, technical, or manmade incident, including terrorism, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale, and/or government functions. Catastrophic incidents can result in sustained national impacts over a prolonged period of time; almost immediately exceed resources normally available to State, local, Tribal, and private-sector authorities in the impacted area; and significantly interrupt governmental operations and emergency services to such an extent that national security could be threatened. As Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, this type of incident affects key planning components including public warning and notification, evacuation, reception and shelter (including a focus on at-risk population), logistics and resource management, isolation and quarantine, volunteer and donation management, and search and rescue. These factors drive the urgency for coordinated planning to ensure effective initial response and accelerated Federal/national assistance. In November 2005, in response to three discrete tasks from the President and Congress, DHS initiated a national review process of emergency operations plans for all States and 75 Urban Areas. This review is examining the status of catastrophic planning, including mass evacuation planning, and is employing a two-phased approach. . In the first phase, States and Urban Areas will complete and submit to DHS a plan review template that forms a baseline national status report of emergency operations planning. This requirement, as well as the list of Urban Areas and major cities which need to meet this requirement, was outlined in greater detail in Information Bulletin #197 released on PREPAREDNESS DlRECTORATE'S OFFICE OF GRANTS AND TRAINING 11