Quality Assurance Section

Overview

The Quality Assurance Section is responsible for:

• Verifying compliance with rules and regulations
• Review appeals, scope modifications, time extensions, project closeouts, account activations and account closeouts for completeness
• Updating State Administrative Plans and Disaster-Specific Administrative Plans
• Facilitating TDEM’s Single Audit, and other audits and reviews
• Managing grant award timelines
  

Single Audits are required under Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Subpart F. Any entity expending more than$750,000 in federal funding during its fiscal year is required to obtain an independent audit of these funds in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Accounting Standards.

Additional questions may be directed to singleauditreview@tdem.texas.gov

Grant Terms and Conditions

• ‍May 2023

List of State Administrative Plans

• Hazard Mitigation Grant Program 2023 SAP
• Public Assistance 2023 SAP
• Fire Management Assistance Grant Program 2023 Annex
• Public Assistance 2022 SAP
• Hazard Mitigation Grant Program 2022 SAP
• Fire Management Assistance Grant Program 2022 Annex
• Public Assistance 2021 SAP
• Hazard Mitigation Grant Program 2021 SAP
• Public Assistance 2020 SAP
• Hazard Mitigation Grant Program 2020 SAP
• DR4586 Public Assistance DSAP
• DR4586 Hazard Mitigation Grant Program DSAP
• DR4572 Public Assistance DSAP
• DR4572 Hazard Mitigation Grant Program DSAP
• EM3540 Public Assistance DSAP
• DR4485 Public Assistance DSAP
• DR4416 Public Assistance DSAP
• DR4416 Hazard Mitigation Grant Program DSAP
• DR4377 Hazard Mitigation Grant Program DSAP
• DR4332 Public Assistance DSAP

Grants Management System (GMS)

The Grants Management System (GMS) is a cloud-based web application which is used to track awards administered by TDEM. 

These awards include: FEMA’s Public Assistance (PA), the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM), Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC), and the Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG). In addition, GMS also administers the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) and Coronavirus Relief Fund for Local Education Agencies (CRF-LEA) through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and. Economic Security (CARES) Act, along with the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF) through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

• Access GMS
• Request a GMS Account
• Forgot Password / Unlock Account
• Job Aids