The DHS/FEMA Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program exists to strengthen and enhance the effectiveness of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The CTP Program supports efforts to Strengthen National Preparedness and Resilience, one of the main goals of the DHS 2020-2024 DHS Strategic Plan.
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security – FEMA
State: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/21/2022
Size of the Grant: $6,600,000
Grant Duration: 49 months
Details:
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) initiative. 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. 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.
Priorities
The CTP program supports the FY 2022 Risk MAP Program Objectives shown below as they continue to sharpen their 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 2022 approach will continue to focus on the following Risk MAP Program Objectives:
- 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 onm 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 (BW-12). 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.
Funding Information
- Available Funding for the NOFO: $104,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $6,600,000
- 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 Projects.
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
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
