Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 8 | DHS 16 MT 045 08 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 8 is a FEMA funding opportunity, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, designed to strengthen the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by building and sustaining practical working partnerships among federal, state, tribal, regional, and local entities. The core purpose is to reduce flood losses and improve community resilience by helping qualified partners develop, maintain, and communicate reliable flood hazard and flood risk information that communities use for planning, mitigation, and NFIP compliance.

This opportunity supports FEMA's broader Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning (Risk MAP) goals by encouraging greater local involvement and ownership of flood risk data and mapping products. A central emphasis is improving the quality, usefulness, and upkeep of flood risk datasets and products such as Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), along with related risk communication materials that help decision-makers and the public understand hazards and take steps to reduce risk. Funded work can include program management activities, technical and engineering analyses that support mapping, and outreach or communication efforts that translate flood hazard data into actionable information for communities and stakeholders.

Awards under this announcement are provided as cooperative agreements, meaning FEMA expects to have ongoing involvement during the period of performance rather than simply issuing funds and stepping back. The funding activity category is listed as science and technology and other research and development, and the applicable CFDA number is 97.045. The opportunity is discretionary, with an expected four awards for Region 8. The listing shows an award ceiling of 0, which typically signals that award amounts are determined by FEMA priorities, available funds, and negotiated scopes of work rather than a fixed maximum published in the notice.

Eligibility is intentionally limited to organizations that are already qualified CTPs. To receive an award, an applicant must have a signed CTP Partnership Agreement with FEMA Headquarters or a FEMA Regional Office. The applicant must also either be (or represent) an NFIP-participating community in good standing, or be a FEMA-approved nonprofit whose primary mission aligns with NFIP goals and objectives. In addition, FEMA expects applicants to already have non-federally funded processes or systems in place to collect, develop, evaluate, share, and communicate flood hazard and risk assessment data and mapping. In other words, this program is meant to build on existing capability rather than create it from scratch, and recipients must demonstrate they can complete the proposed technical work, meet CTP performance metrics, and provide timely, accurate performance reporting to FEMA.

A practical operational requirement included in the notice is the expectation that, when applicable, CTPs will use FEMA's Mapping Information Platform (MIP). Recipients may be required to conduct work and track progress within MIP and keep activities updated at least every 30 days for Studies Workflow tasks (and more frequently for Revisions Workflow tasks). This reflects FEMA's focus on consistent project tracking, transparency, and standardized workflows for mapping and map-updating activities.

The announcement also stresses that prospective applicants should coordinate with FEMA before submitting an application. That advance coordination is meant to align proposed tasks with FEMA's program priorities, objectives, and performance measures, and to identify a specific and FEMA-supported set of deliverables. FEMA may provide technical assistance, training, and/or data to help CTPs carry out project activities, and any FEMA funding is intended to complement (not replace) partner-contributed resources and data that the CTP leverages to complete the agreed-upon work.

Finally, recipients must follow multiple layers of requirements once funded: the terms and conditions of the award, the CTP Partnership Agreement, and the FEMA-approved Statement of Work or Mapping Activity Statement. Those templates and required formats are obtained through the awarding FEMA office (either the Region or FEMA Headquarters). The original application closing date for this FY 2016 Region 8 opportunity was June 10, 2016, and the opportunity number associated with the notice is DHS 16 MT 045 08 01. Eligible applicant types listed include state, county, and city/township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments; and qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofits, as well as other entities, but only to the extent they meet the CTP-specific qualification requirements described above.

• The Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 8" 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 2016-03-25.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-06-10. (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 4 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, Others.

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