Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 9 | DHS 21 MT 045 09 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 9 is a FEMA grant opportunity under the Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen and modernize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by improving how flood risks are identified, mapped, communicated, and ultimately reduced. The program is built around the idea that FEMA cannot do high-quality flood risk mapping and risk communication alone, so it invests in partnerships with capable state, tribal, regional, and local entities that can contribute technical data, staff capacity, and local knowledge. Through these partnerships, FEMA aims to improve the quality and usability of flood hazard information while encouraging practical mitigation decisions that reduce damage, protect lives, and increase long-term community resilience.

At a strategic level, the opportunity is tied to several federal preparedness and mitigation priorities. It supports the DHS 2020-2024 Strategic Plan goal of strengthening national preparedness and resilience, and it aligns with FEMA direction on building a culture of preparedness and readying the nation for catastrophic disasters. It also supports the National Mitigation Investment Strategy, which is connected to Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8) on national preparedness. In plain terms, FEMA is using this program to make sure flood risk data is technically credible, widely shared, and translated into actions that lower risk, rather than sitting on a shelf as a purely technical product.

The CTP program is closely connected to FEMA's Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) initiative. For FY 2021, the focus is on advancing mitigation actions and improving the technical credibility of flood hazard datasets, while emphasizing community engagement throughout the Risk MAP lifecycle. The opportunity highlights several practical priorities: launching new mapping or data update projects in watersheds that have high flood risk and significant needs for updated flood hazard information; integrating partner-developed data and other stakeholder-provided information into mitigation planning and risk assessments; using better data to support actionable mitigation strategies; and encouraging the kind of community-level follow-through that actually reduces flood risk. Another explicit objective is to maximize the impact of dollars spent across local, state, and federal levels by coordinating investments and reducing duplication of effort, so multiple agencies are not paying to recreate the same datasets or analyses.

This is a discretionary funding opportunity offered as a cooperative agreement, which generally means FEMA expects substantial involvement during the period of performance, including coordination, technical alignment, and shared decision-making. The funding activity category is listed under disaster prevention and relief and natural resources, and the CFDA (now commonly referred to as ALN in newer systems) number is 97.045, which is associated with FEMA flood hazard mapping and related activities.

Eligibility is broad but still focused on public-serving and mission-aligned organizations. Eligible applicants include state governments, counties, cities or townships, special district governments, federally recognized tribal governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofits (other than higher education institutions). This range reflects the reality that flood mapping and mitigation work often involves a mix of governmental authorities, regional service providers, universities with technical expertise, and nonprofits that support resilience planning or data development.

For this Region 9 solicitation, the grant was created on March 31, 2021, with an original application closing date of May 31, 2021. FEMA anticipated making around 12 awards. The listed award ceiling is $3,800,000, indicating the maximum potential award size under this opportunity (actual award amounts can vary depending on project scope, need, and available funds). Overall, the opportunity is meant to fund technically sound, partnership-driven projects that improve flood hazard data and help communities convert that information into real mitigation outcomes, with an emphasis on high-risk watersheds, strong data integration, coordinated spending, and measurable reductions in flood risk over time.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the disaster prevention and relief, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 9" 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 Mar 31, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 31, 2021. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,800,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 12 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, Private institutions of higher education.

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