The Arizona Department of Agriculture is seeking applications for its Livestock Operator Fire and Flood Assistance Grant Program.
Donor Name: Arizona Department of Agriculture
State: Arizona
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/29/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The primary purpose of the LOFFAP is to provide a source of funding for landowners and lessees of a livestock operation who require reconstruction assistance as a result of infrastructure damage caused by a wildfire and associated flooding.
Funding Information
The legislature has appropriated $10,000,000.00 to the Fund, of which an amount of $9,500,000.00.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only one application per applicant will be accepted per grant cycle. Eligible applicants are livestock-operation landowners and lessees:
- Who own over forty animals, as defined by this Manual, as part of a livestock operation;
- Whose livestock-operation infrastructure was damaged as a result of a wildfire and associated flooding;
- Who needs assistance for infrastructure repair to continue the livestock operation; and
- Who are ineligible for funding from, or are only partially funded by, another federal or state program, to repair their damaged infrastructure.
- LOFFAP funds are available for funding private, non-governmental infrastructure projects that take place on private, State, and/or Federal land.
- Grant of LOFFAP funds is limited as follows
- No more than 50% of the monies in the Fund may be awarded with respect to projects in any one county in one fiscal year.
- A grant cannot exceed 50% of the total cost of the grantee’s infrastructure project cost, including all amounts received from other sources, whether from the grantee or from other state and federal programs. Grantees will be required to sign a consent to allow sharing of information between AZDA and other state and federal programs
- A grant cannot exceed an aggregate of $250,000 for damage caused to a livestock operation as a result of a single wildfire and associated flood.
- If a grantee is using Supplemental Funds, and the grantee receives more funds than expected from other sources, the grantee is only entitled to the amount of LOFFAP funds needed to complete the infrastructure project, even if the original grant was larger than that amount.
For more information, visit AZDA.
