The Department of Homeland Security – FEMA is accepting applications for its 2022 National Dam Safety Program (NDSP) – Region 3.
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security – FEMA
State: Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $11,000,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
NDSP provides assistance to encourage the establishment and maintenance of effective State programs intended to ensure dam safety, protect human life and property, and improve State dam safety programs. Through risk analysis and risk prioritization methodologies, it informs decision-making on where best to invest limited resources to reduce risk to the public and property associated with dams. State Dam Safety agencies are encouraged to access and apply risk analysis best practices and share critical data analysis with key stakeholders within your emergency management community.
Objectives
The program objectives are:
- Reduce risks to life and property associated with dams;
- Increase awareness of the risks associated with dams and the benefit of state dam safety programs; and
- Advance the state of practice of dam safety and dam risk management
Priorities
The establishment and maintenance of effective State Dam Safety programs intended to ensure dam safety and to protect human life and property.
Funding Information
- Available Funding for the NOFO: $11,000,000.00
- Period of Performance: 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
- This funding opportunity is restricted to the state dam safety program for eligible entities meeting the statutory definition of a “state.” See 33 U.S.C. § 467(10).
- Per 33 U.S.C. §. Eligible State dam safety programs must:
- Have the authority to review and approve plans and specifications to construct, enlarge, modify, remove, and abandon dams;
- Have the authority to perform periodic inspections during dam construction to ensure compliance with approved plans and specifications;
- Maintain a requirement that, on completion of dam construction, State approval must be given before operation of the dam;
- Have the authority to require or perform periodic evaluations of all dams and reservoirs to determine the extent of the threat to human life and property in case of failure;
- Have the authority to require or perform the inspection, at least once every five (5) years, of all dams and reservoirs that would pose a significant threat to human life and property in case of failure to determine the continued safety of the dams and reservoirs;
- Maintain procedures for conducting more detailed and frequent safety inspections, if necessary;
- Maintain a requirement that all inspections be performed under the supervision of a Stateregistered professional engineer with experience in dam design and construction;
- Have the authority to require dam owners to perform necessary maintenance or remedial work, install and monitor instrumentation, improve security, revise operating procedures, or take other actions, including breaching dams when necessary;
- Maintain regulations for carrying out the State legislation described in this subparagraph;
- Have access to funds necessary—
- to ensure timely repairs or other changes to, or removal of, a dam to protect human life and property; and
- to take appropriate action as expeditiously as practicable if a dam owner does not take action described in 10.a.;
- Maintain emergency procedures to be used if a dam fails or if the failure of a dam is imminent; and
- Identify
- each dam the failure of which could be reasonably expected to endanger human life;
- the maximum area that could be flooded if such dams failed; and
- critical public facilities that would be affected by the flooding.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
