Provide assistance to eligible recipients including local governments, non-profit organizations, state universities, state colleges, and qualified for profit agencies on HLMP mitigation projects, review applications, conduct grant management activities including developing contracts, developing scopes of work and budgets, monitoring projects from beginning to end for contract and program compliance, preparing reports, processing financial reimbursements, preparing closeout reports, and other work related to HLMP programs. FDEM prepares and implements a statewide Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, routinely conducts extensive exercises to test state and county emergency response capabilities, provides technical assistance to local governments as they prepare emergency plans and procedures, as well as conducts emergency operations trainings for state and local government agencies.