NCD announces RFI on disability emergency management toolkit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 9, 2026

WASHINGTON–The National Council on Disability (NCD) is requesting information supporting the creation of a state, local, territory and tribal (SLTT) emergency management toolkit.

The toolkit will provide promising practices and guidance on how to create an emergency management plan inclusive of people with disabilities and update the federal agency’s 2009 report, Effective Emergency Management: Making Improvements for Communities and People with Disabilities.

The request for information (RFI) concerns the need for inclusive emergency management planning of people with disabilities’ unique needs. NCD invites comments based on the following questions and requests explanations to answers, with references and data, if possible:

1. What challenges and obstacles do SLTTs encounter when creating an emergency management plan inclusive of people with disabilities?

2. How have SLTTs successfully incorporated the unique needs of people with disabilities in their emergency management plan?

3. Describe promising practices SLTTs have implemented to ensure incorporation of people with disabilities and its emergency management plan?

4. Provide community testimony of successful emergency management plan practices and/or failures which should be addressed in the toolkit?

5. Provide successful collaboration between the disability community and SLTTs in the creation of an emergency management plan. The information provided will be kept confidential and will not be attributed to specific individuals or organizations.

Electronic comments and information must be submitted by 11:59 EDT on April 3, 2026 via email to NCD Senior Attorney Advisor Amy Nicholas at anicholas@ncd.gov. Late comments will not be considered.

Read the full RFI https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/09/2026-04513/request-for-information-creation-of-a-state-local-territory-and-tribal-emergency-management-toolkit.