Regional Fiscal Year 2024 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program | DHS 24 MT 045 01 99

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The Regional Fiscal Year 2024 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program is a FEMA discretionary funding opportunity offered under the Department of Homeland Security that supports the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Flood Hazard Mapping Program and FEMA flood hazard identification and risk assessment work, including the Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) program. The central purpose is to help communities become more flood-resilient, with an explicit emphasis on including underserved communities. The program does this by building and strengthening partnerships between FEMA and qualified local, tribal, state, regional, and other organizations so that flood hazard and flood risk information is produced and delivered accurately, on time, and in a form that communities can readily use for mitigation and better long-term planning.

At its core, the CTP program is about collaboration and practical delivery. FEMA relies on Cooperating Technical Partners to help develop, update, and share flood hazard data and risk products that inform community decision-making, particularly around development, land use, and risk reduction investments. The program places strong weight on establishing and maintaining durable working relationships that support program ownership at the community level, meaning communities are not just recipients of data but active participants who understand, validate, and use the information to reduce flood risk over time.

A major objective of the program is consistent stakeholder engagement throughout the entire lifecycle of each project. This includes ensuring that the people who rely on the data have meaningful opportunities to access it, review it, and use it. Typical stakeholders include community and tribal leaders, business and property owners, regional partners, tribal and state partners, and local elected officials. By building engagement into the process from start to finish, the program aims to increase trust in the resulting flood hazard and risk information and make it more actionable for resiliency planning.

The opportunity also emphasizes timely and high-quality delivery of updated information. FEMA is aiming to strengthen communities ability to make informed development decisions by ensuring that updated flood hazard and risk information is delivered on schedule and within budget. Another key objective is improving acceptance and use of flood hazard data through high-quality products that meet community needs and standards. Alongside the technical outputs, the program supports training and ongoing engagement intended to increase understanding of flood hazards and risk components, which in turn supports stronger partnerships between CTPs and the communities they serve, and between FEMA and the CTPs themselves.

This funding opportunity is issued as a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates that FEMA expects to remain substantially involved in the work during the period of performance rather than simply issuing a grant with minimal federal engagement. The opportunity is categorized under Disaster Prevention and Relief and Natural Resources and is listed under CFDA number 97.045. The opportunity number is DHS 24 MT 045 01 99, and the funding title is Regional Fiscal Year 2024 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program. FEMA indicated an expected 120 awards, and the posted award ceiling is listed as 0, which often signals that award amounts may vary by region, project scope, and available funds rather than being capped by a single published maximum in the notice summary.

Eligible applicants are broad and include county governments; city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; and nonprofit organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) status other than institutions of higher education. Applications are submitted through FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO) at https://go.fema.gov/. The original closing date listed for this opportunity was 2024-07-19, and the opportunity record was created on 2024-06-12.

• The Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the disaster prevention and relief, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Regional Fiscal Year 2024 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program" 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 2024-06-12.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-07-19. (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 120 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: 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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