Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 4 | DHS 19 NPD 111 04 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 4 is a discretionary FEMA grant under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to help state and local jurisdictions prepare for catastrophic incidents by strengthening regional coordination. The program is built around the idea that truly large-scale disasters rarely respect jurisdictional boundaries, and that prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery all depend on how well neighboring communities and states can plan and operate together under extreme conditions. FEMA frames a "catastrophic incident" using the National Response Framework (3rd edition, 2016, or any later version), meaning an event, whether natural or human-caused (including terrorism), that produces extraordinary mass casualties, widespread damage, or major disruption that severely impacts people, infrastructure, the economy, the environment, government operations, or even national morale.

The main goal of RCPGP is to close known preparedness and response capability gaps through practical, collaborative regional projects, while also encouraging new and creative solutions that can work across multiple jurisdictions and sectors. Rather than focusing on isolated improvements inside a single agency or city, the grant emphasizes shared planning and shared outcomes across a region, reflecting the real interdependencies that emerge during catastrophic events (for example, supply chains, sheltering capacity, transportation corridors, utilities, and mutual aid). Projects are expected to build on existing regional work where it exists, and push it further by addressing weaknesses that have already been identified through formal preparedness assessment processes.

A central focus for this funding opportunity is improving capability in the Food, Water, and Sheltering Community Lifeline. In FEMA doctrine, community lifelines are the basic services and functions that communities rely on and that emergency managers prioritize stabilizing during crises. For this specific competition, applicants are expected to show improvement in capability levels connected to the Housing core capability or the Logistics and Supply Chain Management core capability, as documented through the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and the Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR). In practice, that means proposals should be grounded in documented needs and measurable targets, using THIRA/SPR results to justify why the project matters and how it will move the needle on regional readiness related to sheltering, feeding, water, housing solutions, distribution systems, or other supply chain-related challenges that become acute in catastrophic scenarios.

The program also stresses that catastrophic preparedness cannot be achieved simply by scaling up existing local plans. Instead, it calls for solutions that take advantage of cross-sector and cross-jurisdiction coordination, while still respecting the distinct authorities and roles of different levels of government and private sector partners. Many of the critical systems involved in food distribution, water provision, warehousing, transportation, and shelter support depend heavily on private companies, nonprofits, and specialized public authorities, so the grant encourages applicants to design efforts that meaningfully integrate these partners rather than treating them as an afterthought.

RCPGP encourages applicants to create projects that support a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, and exercising with regional partners across the whole community. The intent is to build durable readiness, not a one-time document or a single event. Well-aligned projects would typically include coordinated planning products, joint operational concepts, regional frameworks for resource sharing, training that brings multiple jurisdictions and disciplines into the same operating picture, and exercises that test regional plans in realistic catastrophic conditions, followed by improvements based on lessons learned.

This particular opportunity is labeled for Region 4 and is explicitly intended to be regional in nature and to benefit multiple states, rather than serving a single jurisdiction alone. Eligible applicants include county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, and other eligible entities as further clarified in the notice. The grant is identified under CFDA 97.111, with an award ceiling of $1,500,000 and an anticipated total of 15 awards. The opportunity was created on May 23, 2019, with an original application closing date of July 8, 2019. Overall, the funding is aimed at helping regions develop stronger, better-coordinated capabilities to keep people fed, sheltered, and supplied, and to stabilize essential lifelines during the most extreme, high-impact disasters.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the business and commerce, community development, disaster prevention and relief, regional development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 4" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.111.
• This funding opportunity was created on May 23, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 08, 2019. (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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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