The Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant program makes federal funds available to states, U.S. territories, federally recognized tribal governments, and local governments to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings and structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security – FEMA
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/27/2023
Size of the Grant: $50,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
Objectives
- FMA aims to implement projects that reduce flood risks posed to repetitively flooded properties insured under the NFIP.
- The FMA program also aims to promote equity in the delivery of funds in line with the Administration’s Justice40 Initiative, established in Executive Order (EO) 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. In implementing the Justice40 Initiative, the FMA program is prioritizing assistance that benefits disadvantaged communities as referenced in EO 14008 and subsequent guidance. A disadvantaged community may be characterized by variables including, but not limited to: low income, high and/or persistent poverty, high unemployment and underemployment, racial and ethnic segregation particularly where the segregation stems from discrimination by government entities, linguistic isolation, high housing cost burden and substandard housing, distressed neighborhoods, high transportation cost burden and/or low transportation access, disproportionate environmental burden and high cumulative impacts, limited water and sanitation access and affordability, disproportionate climate impacts, and high energy cost burden and low energy access, jobs lost through the energy transition, access to health care, and all geographic areas within Tribal jurisdictions.
- FY 2022 (FY 22) FMA funds are sourced from congressionally appropriated funding from the National Flood Insurance Fund (NFIF) as well as funding made available for FY 22 Flood Mitigation Assistance via the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The IIJA funding allows increased federal cost share for a property: located within a census tract with a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Social Vulnerability Index score of not less than 0.5001.
- Further, in FY 22, the FMA program is using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) score of not less than 0.6 as included in the project’s benefiting area map as a priority scoring criterion for Capability and Capacity Building (C&CB), Localized Flood Risk Reduction Project, and Individual Flood Mitigation Project.
Priorities
- FEMA will distribute the available FY 22 FMA funding amount as follows:
- Capability and Capacity Building (C&CB): FEMA will select up to $60 million of Capability and Capacity Building (C&CB) to develop future Localized Flood Risk Reduction Projects and/or Individual Flood Mitigation Projects that will subsequently reduce flood claims against the NFIP. C&CB activities will be prioritized and selected according to the following hierarchical order: Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plans under 42 U.S.C. 4104c(c)(3)(F); Technical Assistance under 42 U.S.C. 4104c(c)(3)(J); Project Scoping; and Additional C&CB Activities (Partnership Development; Enhancing Local Floodplain Management; Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL)/Repetitive Loss (RL) Strategy Plan Development; and other eligible C&CB activities under 42 U.S.C. 4104c(c)(3)(G).
Funding Information
- The federal funding activity caps for FMA Capability and Capacity Building (C&CB) activities per subapplication are:
- $100,000 for Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plans under 42 U.S.C. 4104c(c)(3)(F) per
- Applicant with maximums of:
- $50,000 for state multi-hazard mitigation planning
- $25,000 for local multi-hazard mitigation planning
- $50,000 for Technical Assistance to states (42 U.S.C. 4104c(c)(3)(J))
- $900,000 for Project Scoping
- $300,000 for Additional C&CB Activities (Partnership Development, Enhancing Local
- Floodplain Management, SRL/RL Strategy Plan Development, and other eligible C&CB activities under 42 U.S.C. 4104c(c)(3)(G).
- The federal funding activity cap for Localized Flood Risk Reduction Project is $50,000,000 per project.
- Period of Performance: 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- States
- District of Columbia
- U.S. territories
- Federally recognized tribal governments
- Each state, territory, the District of Columbia, and federally recognized tribal government shall designate one agency to serve as the applicant for FMA funding. The designee is strongly encouraged to conduct outreach with disadvantaged communities as referenced in EO 14008 prior to and during the application process. Each applicant’s designated agency may submit only one FMA grant application to FEMA. Subapplications under which two or more entities would carry out the award are eligible, such as a multi-state or multi-tribal initiative; however, only one entity may be the applicant with primary responsibility for carrying out the award.
- Communities, including local governments, cities, townships, counties, special district governments, and tribal governments (including federally recognized tribes who choose to apply as subapplicants), are considered subapplicants and must submit subapplications to their state/territory/tribal applicant agency. Certain political subdivisions (for example, regional flood control districts or county governments) may apply and act as subapplicants if they are part of a community participating in the NFIP where the political subdivision provides zoning and building code enforcement or planning and community development professional services for that community.
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