FEMA Announces Funding Opportunity for Fiscal 2015 Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants

Intergovernmental Affairs Advisory

May 29, 2015

FEMA Announces Funding Opportunity for Fiscal (FY) 2015 Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants
Dear Intergovernmental Colleagues:
Today, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is announcing $180 million in funding available through two Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant programs: Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM). These two grant programs assist state, local, tribal, and territorial governments in strengthening our nation’s ability to reduce the potential cost of natural disasters to communities and their citizens.
FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance grant programs provide states, tribes, territories, and local governments funding for eligible mitigation activities to strengthen our nation’s ability to reduce disaster losses and protect life and property from future disaster damages.
The Flood Mitigation Assistance grant program provides funds on an annual basis so that measures can be taken to reduce or eliminate risk of flood damage to buildings insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The FY 2015 Flood Mitigation Assistance grants will continue to focus on reducing or eliminating claims under the NFIP with a focus on mitigation planning and the mitigation of severe repetitive loss properties.

The Pre-Disaster Mitigation grant program provides funds on an annual basis for hazard mitigation planning and the implementation of mitigation projects prior to a disaster. The goal of the Pre-Disaster Mitigation grant program is to reduce overall risk to the population and structures, while at the same time, also reducing reliance on Federal funding from actual disaster declarations. The FY 2015 Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants will continue to focus on implementing a sustained pre-disaster natural hazard mitigation program and provide the grant funding set aside as required in the Stafford Act to states and tribes to support overall mitigation planning and projects.
Both Hazard Mitigation Assistance FY 2015 Funding Opportunity Announcements can be found at www.grants.gov, and PDF versions are attached to this advisory. Eligible applicants must apply for funding through the Mitigation eGrants system on the FEMA Grants Portal accessible at https://portal.fema.gov. FEMA will open the application period on May 29, 2015. All applications must be submitted no later than 3:00 PM EDT on August 28, 2015.
Further information on these grant programs is available at https://www.fema.gov/hazard- mitigation-assistance. Additionally, please see the attached fact-sheets for additional information on the PDM and FMA grant programs.

If you have any questions, please contact FEMA’s Intergovernmental Affairs Division at (202) 646-3444 or at FEMA-IGA@fema.dhs.gov.

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Notice of Funding Opportunity FY 15 Flood Mitigation Assistance
FY 2015 Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Grant Program Fact Sheet
Notice of Funding Opportunity FY 15 Pre-Disaster Mitigation
FY 2015 Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) Grant Program Fact Sheet