Deadline: 21-Jul-22
The Department of Homeland Security – FEMA is now accepting applications for the 2022 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program to Strengthen National Preparedness and Resilience.
The Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program exists to strengthen and enhance the effectiveness of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The program supports the National Mitigation Investment Strategy, a supporting document to Presidential Policy Directive (PPD-8) on National Preparedness and Strategic Goal One and Two of FEMA’s Strategic Plan, Building a Culture of Preparedness and Readying the Nation for Catastrophic Disaster. It helps achieve these goals by fostering strong federal, state, tribal, regional and local partnerships to identify flood risks, reduce flood losses and promote community resiliency.
Objectives
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.
- 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.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $30,500,000
- Award Ceiling: $30,500,000
- Projected Period of Performance Start Date(s): 09/01/2022
- Projected Period of Performance End Date(s): 09/30/2023 and 09/30/2025
Eligibility Criteria
- Region 8: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.
- 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 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965
- Public Housing Authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Special district governments
- Territories
- State governments, including the District of Columbia
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=341023