Feds award big money for area emergency operations center
by January 8, 2009 7:46 am 52 views
Sebastian County will receive $750,000 from the Department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grant Program to build its emergency operations center.
An EOC improves emergency management and preparedness capabilities by addressing deficiencies and needs to ensure continuity of operations and continuity of government in major disasters caused by any hazard, according to a statement from U.S. Rep. John Boozman, R-Rogers, in which the funds were announced.
The grant money will help cover the cost of creating an EOC that would “facilitate interagency communications and technology sharing during an evacuation situation or any other disaster.”
The Department of Homeland Security is expected to award more than $34 million in EOC grants in fiscal year 2009.