Recovery Support Function Leadership Group

The Recovery Support Function Leadership Group (RSFLG) is made up of multiple departments and agencies across the federal government that work together to help communities recover from a disaster. The RSFLG allows federal agencies to coordinate disaster recovery work under the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) across the six Recovery Support Functions in order to provide communities with unified federal assistance as quickly and effectively as possible.

As part of the RSFLG, the Program Management Office (PMO) tracks disaster funding and outcomes across the federal interagency partners for the largest disasters from 2017 - 2019, including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence and Michael, and the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires. The PMO provides accountability and transparency, enhances coordination and collaboration, and facilitates outcome driven recovery across the federal government.

Responsibilities

Composition

Accomplishments

RSFLG representatives include federal department and agency senior officials who can speak authoritatively on behalf of their organizations and represent each NDRF coordinating, primary, and supporting Federal agency or national Non-Profit; Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Headquarters and Regional offices (Regional Administrators and Federal Disaster Recovery Officers); and selected other Federal departments and agencies as designated by the RSFLG Chair.

Membership consists of the coordinating, primary and supporting federal Departments and Agencies (D/A) and national Non-Profit Organizations for each of the six RSFs; other organizations may be designated by the RSFLG Chair. Membership also includes FEMA Regional Administrators and Federal Disaster Recovery Officers (FDRO).

The following provides a sample of the endeavors and activities of the RSFLG and its members.

• Creation and operation of the RSFLG Program Management Office to track state-level supplemental disaster obligations and expenditures for 2017-2019 disasters, plus non-COVID FEMA, SBA and HUD dedicated disaster funding from 2017 to present.
• Creation and Publication of several COVID-19 Resource Roadmaps
• Roadmap to Federal Resources for Disaster Recovery
• Recovery and Resilience Resource Library
• CPCB Community Recovery Management Toolkit

Core capabilities are the distinct elements needed to achieve the National Preparedness Goal. The National Disaster Recovery Framework describes each of its eight core capabilities and lists critical tasks for each one. The capabilities, with critical task examples, are listed below.

• Planning. Convene the core of an inclusive whole community planning team, identified pre-disaster, which will oversee disaster recovery planning process and activities to reduce recovery risk and increase resilience.
• Public Information and Warning. Manage expectations through clarity, accuracy, and transparency.
• Operational Coordination. Lead, coordinate, and drive the recovery process.
• Economic Recovery. Share, aggregate, and integrate economic impact data to assess economic issues and identify potential inhibitors to fostering stabilization of the affected communities.
• Health and Social Services. Identify affected populations, groups, and key partners in recovery.
• Housing. Assess preliminary housing impacts and pre- and post-disaster needs, identify available options for temporary housing, and support the local development of the plan for permanent housing.
• Infrastructure Systems. Facilitate the restoration of and sustain essential services (public and private) to maintain community functionality.
• Natural and Cultural Resources. Implement measures to protect and stabilize records and culturally significant documents, objects, and structures.

• Community Recovery Management Toolkit (CRMT)
• DisasterAssistance.gov
• DisasterAssistance.gov - Other Recovery Help
• FEMA Declared Disasters
• Grants.gov
• USAspending.gov