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FEMA Grants and Assistance Programs

FY 2009 Preparedness Grant Program Information

• DHS Announces Nearly $970 Million in Preparedness Grant Final Allocations
• FY 2009 Grants Overview (PDF 144KB, TXT 44KB) 
• DHS Announces Fiscal Year 2009 Grant Guidance for over $3 Billion in Preparedness Grant Programs
• FY 2009 Preparedness Grants Fact Sheet
• FY 2009 Overview Grants Application Guidance (PDF 575 KB)

Some grants are available only by a presidential declaration of a major disaster or emergency that designates the grants be made available. To find out what grant programs have been activatedview the Disaster Federal Register Notices (DFRNs) for a specific disaster

Grant Programs Directorate Strategic Plan

• Grant Program Directorate Strategic Plan Fiscal Years 2009 - 2011 (PDF 595KB, TXT 32KB)
• The Grant Program Directorate Strategic Plan in Brief 2009 - 2011 (PDF 294KB, TXT 1MB)

Grants Administration Information

• State Administrative Agencies (SAAs) Contact Information
• Find additional grant administration information
• View Grant Programs Directorate Information Bulletins

Search for Grants and Assistance Programs

By Audience:

• Emergency Personnel
• Governments
• Individuals
• Private-Nonprofit Organizations
  
  

By Type:

• Disaster-Specific Recovery Programs
• Environmental and Historic Preservation
• Hazard-Related Grants and Assistance Programs
• Non-Disaster Programs
• Repetitive Flood Claims Program
• Severe Repetitive Loss Program

Alphabetical:
Catalog of Federal Disaster Assistance (CFDA) numbers are provided to help you find additional information on the CFDA website.

• Assistance to Firefighters Grant (Source: U.S. Fire Administration)
  (CFDA Number: 97.044)
  Provides assistance to local fire departments to protect citizens and firefighters against the effects of fire and fire-related incidents.
  (Fire departments and other first responders)
  
  
• Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.040)
  Improves preparedness to protect the people of certain communities in the unlikely event of an accident involving this country's stockpiles of obsolete chemical munitions.
  (States, localities and tribal governments)
  
  
• Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program (CEDAP)
   CEDAP complements the FEMA National Preparedness Directorate’s other major grant programs to enhance regional response capabilities, mutual aid, and interoperable communications by providing technology and equipment, together with training and technical assistance required to operate that equipment, to public safety agencies in smaller jurisdictions and certain metropolitan areas.
  
  
• Community Assistance Program, State Support Services Element (CAP-SSSE) (CFDA Number: 97.023)
  Provides funding to States to provide technical assistance to communities in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and to e?valuate community performance in implementing NFIP floodplain management acti?vities.
  (States)
  
  
• Community Disaster Loan Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.03)
  Provides funds to any eligible jurisdiction in a designated disaster area that has suffered a substantial loss of tax and other revenue.
  (Localities)
  
  
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
  (PDF - 129KB) (TXT - 8KB)
  (CFDA Numbers: 97.02, 97.021)
  Supports programs designed to improve capabilities associated with oil and hazardous materials emergency planning and exercising.
  (States, localities and tribal governments, U.S. territories, state emergency response committee?s (SERCs) and LEPCs)
  
  
• Cooperating Technical Partners
  (CFDA Number: 97.045)
  Provides technical assistance, training, and/or data to support flood hazard data development activities.
  (States, localities, tribal governments)
  
  
• Crisis Counseling
  (CFDA Number: 97.032)
  Provides supplemental funding to States for short-term crisis counseling services to people affected in Presidentially declared disasters.
  (Individuals via states)
  
  
• Disaster Legal Services
  (CFDA Number: 97.033)
  Provides free legal assistance to disaster victims.
  (Individuals via states)
  
  
• Disaster Unemployment Assistance Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.034)
  Provides unemployment benefits and re-employment services to individuals who have become unemployed because of major disasters.
  (Individuals)
  
  
• Emergency Food and Shelter Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.024)
  Supplements the work of local social service organizations within the United States, both private and governmental, to help people in need of emergency assistance.
  (Private-Nonprofit community and government organizations)
  
  
• Emergency Management Institute
  (CFDA Numbers: 97.026, 97.027, 97.28)
  Provides training and education to the fire service, its allied professions, emergency management officials, and the general public.
  (Fire departments, other first responders, emergency management officials and individuals)
  
  
• Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG)
  (CFDA Number: 97.042)
  Provides assistance for the development, maintenance, and improvement of state and local emergency management capabilities.
  (States and U.S. territories via the State Administrative Agency (SAA))
  
  
• Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grant Program
  The FY 2008 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grant Program is intended to improve emergency management and preparedness capabilities by supporting flexible, sustainable, secure, and interoperable EOCs with a focus on addressing identified deficiencies and needs.
  
  
• Fire Management Assistance Grant Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.046)
  Assistance for the mitigation, management, and control of fires on publicly or privately owned forests or grasslands, which threaten such destruction as would constitute a major disaster.
  (States, local and tribal governments)
  
  
• Flood Mitigation Assistance Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.029)
  Provides funding to assist States and communities in implementing measures to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to buildings, manufactured homes, and other structures insurable under the NFIP.
  (States and localities)
  
  
• Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.039)
  Provides grants to States and local governments to implement long-term hazard mitigation measures after a major disaster declaration.
  (States, localities and tribal governments; certain private-nonprofit organizations or institutions; authorized tribal organizations; and Alaska native villages or organizations via states)
  
  
• Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP)
  (CFDA Number: 97.067)
  Enhances the capacity of State and local emergency responders to prevent, respond to, and recover from a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorism incident involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) devices and cyber attacks.
  (States, localities and U.S. territories)
  
  
• Individuals and Households Grant Program (Disaster Assistance)
  (CFDA Numbers: 97.048, 97.049, 97.05)
  Provides money or direct assistance to individuals, families and businesses in an area whose property has been damaged or destroyed and whose losses are not covered by insurance.
  (Individuals)
  
  
• Map Modernization Management Support
  (CFDA Number: 97.070)
  Provides funding to supplement, not supplant, ongoing flood hazard mapping management efforts by the local, regional, or State agencies.
  (States and localities)
  
  
• National Dam Safety Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.041)
  Provides financial assistance to the states for strengthening their dam safety programs.
  (States)
  
  
• National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP)
  (CFDA Number: 97.082)
  Provides financial assistance to the states for strengthening their dam safety programs.
  (States)
  
  
• National Fire Academy Education and Training (Source: U.S. Fire Administration)
  (CFDA Numbers: 97.018, 97.029)
  Provides training to increase the professional level of the fire service and others responsible for fire prevention and control.
  (Fire departments and firefighting personnel)
  
  
• National Flood Insurance Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.022)
  Enables property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance as a protection against flood losses in exchange for State and community floodplain management regulations that reduce future flood damages.
  (States, localities, and individuals)
  
  
• National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System
  (CFDA Number: 97.025)
  Provides funding for the acquisition, maintenance, and storage of equipment, training, exercises, and training facilities to meet task force position criteria, and conduct and participate in meetings within the National US&R Response System.
  (US&R task forces)
  
  
• Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.017)
  Provides funds for hazard mitigation planning and the implementation of mitigation projects prior to a disaster event.
  (States, localities and tribal governments)
  
  
• Public Assistance Grant Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.036)
  Provides assistance to alleviate suffering and hardship resulting from major disasters or emergencies declared by the President.
  (States, localities, tribal governments and private-nonprofit organizations via states)
  
  
• Reimbursement for Firefighting on Federal Property (Source: U.S. Fire Administration)
  (CFDA Number: 97.016)
  Provides reimbursement only for direct costs and losses over and above normal operating costs.
  (States, localities, tribal governments and fire departments)
  
  
• Repetitive Flood Claims Program
  (CFDA Number: 97.092)
  Provides funding to States and communities to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to structures insurede under the NFIP that have had one or more claims for flood damages, and that can not meet the requirements of the Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) program for either cost share or capacity to manage the activities.
  (States and localities)
  
  
• Severe Repetitive Loss Program
  (CFDA Number 97.110)
  Provides assistance to States and local governments in supporting actions that reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to residential properties insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) that meet the definition of severe repetitive loss property, and to reduce losses to the National Flood Insurance Fund (NFIF) by funding projects that result in the greatest savings to the NFIF in the shortest time period.
• State Fire Training System Grants (Source: U.S. Fire Administration)
  (CFDA Number: 97.043)
  Provide financial assistance to State Fire Training Systems for the delivery of a variety of National Fire Academy (NFA) courses/programs.
  (State Fire Training Systems)
  
  
• Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
  Provides funding for training in emergency planning, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery capabilities associated with hazardous chemicals.
  (Public officials, fire and police personnel, medical personnel, first responders, and other tribal response and planning personnel)

Last Modified: Wednesday, 22-Apr-2009 16:08:25 EDT

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