$10.8M Available for Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grants

ByNews Editor

FEMA released the funding notice for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program. The program provides $10.8 million to eligible states and local governments to close known preparedness capability gaps, encourage innovative regional solutions to issues related to catastrophic incidents and build on existing regional preparedness efforts.

The four strategic priorities for the FY 2024 RCPGP are: housing, equity, climate resilience, and readiness. 

The purpose of the Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) is to build regional capacity to manage catastrophic incidents by improving and expanding collaboration for catastrophic incident preparedness. The National Response Framework (4th edition, 2019) defines a catastrophic incident as any natural or manmade incident, including terrorism, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage or disruption severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale or government functions.

For FY 2024, to reduce the complexity of developing an RCPGP application, proposals are permitted to select just one of the three focus areas (housing, community resilience or long-term vulnerability reduction) on which to concentrate their project. Additionally, applicants are encouraged to consider the needs of Community Disaster Resilience Zones (CDRZ) when developing their project proposals.

Awards will be made on a competitive basis to applicants who present an ability to successfully meet the requirements described in the funding notice.

The application period will close at 5 p.m. ET on July 25. Submissions must be made through FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO). The Notice of Funding Opportunity is available on the FEMA website at www.fema.gov/grants.

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