Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 10 | DHS 19 MT 045 10 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 10 is a FEMA grant/cooperative agreement opportunity designed to strengthen the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by building and sustaining practical partnerships among federal, state, tribal, regional, and local entities. The core purpose is to reduce flood losses and improve community resilience by helping eligible partners develop, update, and communicate reliable flood risk information that supports sound local floodplain management and mitigation decisions.

This opportunity supports work that improves flood hazard and risk data and the products communities rely on, especially Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and related datasets and tools. FEMA is using the CTP Program to expand local involvement and ownership in the creation and maintenance of these products, which in turn supports the broader Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning (Risk MAP) program goals. In plain terms, it is meant to help capable state, tribal, and local partners do more of the technical and programmatic work that keeps flood mapping current, defensible, and usable, while also improving how flood risk is explained to communities, decision-makers, and the private sector.

Projects funded through the CTP Program can generally fall into areas like program management, technical risk analysis and mapping, and flood risk communication. That may include activities that support NFIP state coordinating agencies and NFIP-participating communities as they carry out their ongoing regulatory responsibilities under the NFIP, along with tasks that help states and communities understand and mitigate flood risk. FEMA may also provide non-financial support, such as technical assistance, training, or data, to help partners successfully complete work within the program’s project categories. Any FEMA funding awarded is intended to add to (not replace) the partner’s own leveraged resources, data, and existing systems.

Eligibility is limited to qualified Cooperating Technical Partners. To be considered, an applicant must already be a CTP with a signed Partnership Agreement with FEMA Headquarters or a FEMA Regional Office. The applicant must also either be (or represent) an NFIP community in good standing, or be a FEMA-approved nonprofit whose primary mission aligns with NFIP goals and objectives. Applicants are expected to have established, non-federally funded processes and/or systems to collect, develop, evaluate, share, and communicate flood hazard and risk assessment data and mapping. They also must demonstrate the capability to complete the proposed work, meet CTP performance metrics, and submit timely and accurate performance reporting to FEMA. When applicable, recipients must agree to use FEMA’s Mapping Information Platform (MIP) and keep activity information current by updating the Studies Workflow at least every 30 days (and more frequently for Revisions Workflow items).

From an application planning standpoint, FEMA expects prospective applicants to coordinate with FEMA ahead of submission to align proposed tasks with FEMA priorities, objectives, and measures for the region. Awardees must comply not only with the public announcement requirements and the terms and conditions of the award, but also with the underlying CTP Partnership Agreement and the FEMA-approved Statement of Work or Mapping Activity Statement that governs the specific tasks and deliverables. Those templates are obtained through the relevant FEMA granting office, either the FEMA Region or FEMA Headquarters.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), using a cooperative agreement instrument (Funding Opportunity Number DHS 19 MT 045 10 01; CFDA 97.045). Eligible applicant types include state, county, and city/township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments; and 501(c)(3) nonprofits (among others as clarified in the full eligibility language). The opportunity was created April 19, 2019, with an original closing date of June 18, 2019. FEMA anticipated making about 20 awards. The listed award ceiling is shown as 0, which typically signals that a single fixed maximum award amount is not specified in the summary and may instead depend on FEMA priorities, available funds, and the scope of approved partner work.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 10" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.045.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 19, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 18, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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