The Department of Homeland Security – FEMA is soliciting proposals for its Cooperating Technical Partners Program to strengthen and enhance the effectiveness of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security – FEMA
State: All States
County: All Counties
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/19/2023
Size of the Grant: $95,000,000
Grant Duration: 49 months
Details:
The CTP program supports efforts to Strengthen National Preparedness and Resilience, one of the main goals of the 2020-2024 DHS Strategic Plan. Additionally, the program supports the 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan, Goal 2: Lead whole of community in climate resilience and Goal 3: Promote and sustain a ready FEMA and a prepared nation. It helps achieve these goals by fostering strong federal, state, tribal, territorial, regional, and local partnerships to identify flood risks, reduce flood losses, and promote community resilience. It also supports the National Mitigation Investment Strategy, a supporting document to Presidential Policy Directive (PPD-8), National Preparedness.
The objectives of the CTP program are primarily to support the mission and objectives of the NFIP’s Flood Hazard Mapping Program through FEMA’s flood hazard identification and risk assessment programs, including the Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning (Risk MAP) acquisition program. The vision for Risk MAP is to deliver quality data that increases public awareness of flood risk and leads to action that reduces flood risk to life and property. Through more precise flood mapping products, risk assessment tools, and planning and outreach support, Risk MAP strengthens the local ability to make informed decisions about reducing flood risk. The Risk MAP process was developed not only to introduce new and useful tools to help address these challenges, but also to create partnerships with communities affected by flooding and other hazards. By engaging local communities throughout the process and by sharing ownership of the products, Risk MAP results in tools that meet the needs of individual communities and stakeholders, and can be used to effectively communicate and reduce risk from flooding and other hazards for citizens across the United States. The CTP supports Risk MAP in developing flood hazard data and maps for communities that have never had identified risks, building on effective flood hazard data and flood insurance rate maps (FIRMS), and increasing public awareness of flood risk and potential mitigation options to reduce that risk and better inform planning.
The CTP is one mechanism that FEMA uses to deliver Risk MAP to communities. CTPs develop flood hazard data and maps for communities that have never had identified risks, build on effective flood hazard data and flood insurance rate maps (FIRMS), and increase public awareness of flood risk and potential mitigation options to reduce that risk and better inform planning.
Priorities
The CTP program supports the FY 2023 Risk MAP Program Priorities shown below as they continue to sharpen our focus on advancing mitigation actions and prioritizing the technical credibility of data and community engagement throughout the Risk MAP lifecycle. As such, CTP’s FY 2023 approach will continue to focus on the following Risk MAP Program Priorities:
Maintaining 80% new, validated, or updated engineering (NVUE) data – The NVUE metric is used to measure data quality by ensuring that flood hazard data is new, has been updated, or is deemed to be still valid through a continuous review and update process. NVUE metrics distinguish between engineering studies that adequately identify the level of flood risk (known as Valid) from those that need restudy (known as Unverified). The Risk MAP program is responsible for ensuring 80% of the Nation’s flood hazard data is current.
- Advancing Ongoing Risk MAP Projects – The initiation of work to maintain 80% NVUE is one part of the mapping process. However, as the entire process takes six to eight years to complete, they need to invest in advancing the current backlog of projects to deliver them to communities. CTPs support this effort to take projects previously funded up to a certain phase and focusing efforts this grant season on funding and completing the remainder of the work for those areas.
- Addressing Remaining Statute Requirements – The Risk MAP Program is still addressing statutory requirements from The Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. These requirements include, but are not limited to, mapping currently unmapped areas of possible population growth, mapping areas of residual risk (in areas protected by levees, dams, and other flood control structures), mapping inundation areas (resulting from failure of levees, dams, and other flood control structures), and mapping future conditions.
- Ensure equitable determination and delivery of products to communities in a tailored way based on their needs, including for disadvantaged communities whom the Justice40 Initiative aims to ensure receive benefits from this program.
Funding Information
Available Funding for the NOFO: $95,000,000
Period of Performance
- 25 Months for Program Management, Community Outreach and Mitigation Strategies, Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) Review Projects, and Special Projects.
- 49 Months for Technical Hazard Identification, Risk Analysis, and Mapping Project.
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible for funding under this the CTP program:
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Federally recognized tribal governments
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS status, other than institutions of higher education
- Institutions of higher education as defined by section 101of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. § 1001)
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Special district governments
- Territories
- State governments, including the District of Columbia
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