The Department of Homeland Security – FEMA is pleased to announce its 2023 National Dam Safety Program State Assistance Grant Program.
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security – FEMA
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/21/2023
Size of the Grant: $6,250,000
Grant Duration: 12 months
Details:
The National Dam Safety Program’s mission is to reduce risks to lives, property, and the environment from dam failure by guiding public policy and leveraging industry best practices across the dam safety community. The National Dam Safety Program supports FEMA Strategic Goals:
- Goal 1: Build a Culture of Preparedness and FEMA Strategic
- Goal 2: Ready the National for Catastrophic Disasters.
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 objectives of the Program are to:
- Ensure that new and existing dams are safe through the development of technologically and economically feasible programs and procedures for national dam safety hazard reduction;
- Encourage acceptable engineering policies and procedures to be used for dam site investigation, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and emergency preparedness;
- Encourage the establishment and implementation of effective dam safety programs in each state based on state standards;
- Develop and implement a comprehensive dam safety hazard education and public awareness initiative to assist in preparing for, mitigating, responding to, and recovering from dam incidents;
- Develop mechanisms with which to provide Federal technical assistance for dam safety to non-Federal dam safety practitioners; and
- Develop technical assistance materials, seminars, and guidelines to improve security for dams in the United States.
Grant Priorities
To encourage the establishment and maintenance of effective State Dam Safety programs intended to ensure dam safety, to protect human life and property, and to improve state dam safety programs.
Performance Measures
- Program Objective: Reduced risks to life and property
- Eligible Activities – Examples
- Perform targeted safety inspections of High Hazard (HH) dams/dams of highest consequence
- Perform targeted condition assessment and evaluations of reservoirs and HH dams/dams of highest consequence.
- Development of new or updated Emergency Action Plan (EAP) of HH dams / dams of highest consequence
- Perform regulatory enforcement actions: Implement enforcement actions to compel the dam owner of an unsafe high hazard potential dam to take action to reduce the risk associated with the dam. Regulatory enforcement actions may include, but not limited to, official notice of violation, civil or criminal penalties, reservoir restrictions, or safe breaching of the dam
- Program Objective: Increased public awareness of risks associated with dams
- Eligible Activities – Examples
- Execution of targeted outreach and messaging strategies to inform the public and stakeholders of dam risks and actions that individuals/organizations/communities need to take
- Establish and maintain assessment tool for gauging effectiveness of targeted public outreach about hazards and risks associated with dams
- Program Objective: Improvement and advancement of state dam safety and risk management program
- Eligible Activities – Examples
- Identification of and applied best practices that advance operations of state dam safety programs (includes software programs that assess, monitor, model, and analyze potential and real risk)
- Risk identification analysis and risk prioritization methodologies to inform decision-making in dam rehabilitation or removal projects of High Hazard Potential Dams (HHPD)
- Implementation of a state dam sector cybersecurity framework consistent with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity and guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
- Professional education, workshops, and training on content such as dam operations and safety standards, industry best practices, risk assessment methodologies, and risk communication strategies for dam owners, local officials and EM, and state dam safety staff.
Funding Information
- Available Funding for the funding opportunity: $6,250,000
- Period of Performance: 12 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Per Title 33 United States Code Section 467(10), the term “state” means each of the several states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
