Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 6 | DHS 21 MT 045 06 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 6 is a FEMA grant opportunity under the Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen and improve how the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) works in practice. The program is built around the idea that flood risk is best managed through strong partnerships, so it supports coordinated work among federal, state, tribal, regional, and local entities to better identify flood hazards, reduce flood-related losses, and improve long-term community resilience. The funding is offered as a cooperative agreement, which generally means FEMA expects active involvement and collaboration during the work rather than a hands-off pass-through award.

The purpose of the program ties directly to major national preparedness and mitigation priorities. It supports the DHS 2020-2024 Strategic Plan goal focused on strengthening national preparedness and resilience, and it aligns with FEMA strategy priorities such as building a culture of preparedness and getting the nation ready for catastrophic disasters. It also supports the National Mitigation Investment Strategy, which complements Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8) on national preparedness. In practical terms, the CTP Program is a vehicle for making flood mapping and flood risk information more accurate, more usable, and more likely to lead to real mitigation actions at the community level.

A key emphasis for FY 2021 is supporting FEMA's Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) objectives. The program highlights two themes throughout the Risk MAP lifecycle: pushing mitigation actions forward and ensuring the technical credibility of flood risk data, while also improving community engagement. The FY 2021 approach prioritizes starting new projects in watersheds with high risk and major needs for updated flood hazard data. It also encourages the integration of mapping data produced by CTP partners and other stakeholders into broader mitigation planning and risk assessments, so that communities can use the information to develop actionable mitigation strategies rather than treating mapping as a stand-alone technical product. Another major goal is to help generate tangible community actions that reduce flood risk, and to coordinate investments across local, state, and federal levels to avoid duplicating efforts and to stretch limited dollars further.

This is a discretionary funding opportunity (not an entitlement or formula grant) listed under CFDA 97.045 and categorized under Disaster Prevention and Relief and Natural Resources. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; federally recognized tribal governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; and eligible 501(c)(3) nonprofits (other than institutions of higher education). The opportunity was posted March 31, 2021, with an original application deadline of May 31, 2021. For Region 6, the award ceiling is listed as $9,000,000, and FEMA anticipated making about 35 awards.

Overall, the FY 2021 CTP Program for Region 6 is aimed at improving flood hazard data and turning that improved data into smarter planning, stronger mitigation decisions, and measurable reductions in flood risk. The program is structured to reward collaboration, technical rigor, and practical outcomes, especially in areas where flood hazard information is outdated and where updated mapping and risk analysis can directly support better local decision-making.

• 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 6" 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 $9,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 35 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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