Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 2 | DHS 22 GPD 111 02 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 2 is a discretionary FEMA grant under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen how jurisdictions plan for and manage catastrophic incidents. It focuses on closing known preparedness and response capability gaps, encouraging practical and innovative regional solutions, and building on existing preparedness work that states and local governments have already started. The central idea is that truly large, complex disasters do not respect city or county lines, so prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery need to be coordinated across an entire region rather than handled in isolated pockets.

The program is built around FEMA's definition of a catastrophic incident as described in the National Response Framework (4th edition, or any updated version). Under that definition, a catastrophic incident can be natural or human-caused, including terrorism, and is characterized by extraordinary levels of casualties, damage, and disruption that can overwhelm normal systems. These incidents can severely affect people, critical infrastructure, the environment, the economy, public morale, and even core government functions. Because the stakes are so high and the consequences spread quickly across jurisdictions, the grant emphasizes collaboration and integrated planning that helps partners work from the same playbook when the situation is extreme.

FY 2022 RCPGP is also framed to support the FEMA 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. That strategy sets three agency-wide goals: promoting and instilling equity as a foundation of emergency management, leading a whole-of-community approach to climate resilience, and sustaining a ready FEMA and a prepared nation. For this grant opportunity, those goals translate into three strategic priorities that applicants are expected to reflect in their work: equity, climate resilience, and readiness. In practice, that means the grant is not only about traditional disaster planning, but also about making sure planning and preparedness efforts account for how disasters affect communities differently, particularly those that have historically been underserved or are at higher risk.

A notable emphasis is the equity priority. The opportunity explicitly highlights support for disadvantaged groups that may face elevated risk from current hazards, including hazards made worse by climate change. The program aims to make preparedness and disaster outcomes more fair and consistent by ensuring underserved and at-risk communities are considered before, during, and after disasters. In other words, proposed projects are expected to recognize real-world access and vulnerability issues (such as language barriers, disability access needs, limited transportation options, or lack of resources) and incorporate those needs into regional catastrophic preparedness efforts rather than treating them as afterthoughts.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed under CFDA 97.111 and is categorized under Disaster Prevention and Relief. Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, and city or township governments. The funding instrument is a grant. The funding opportunity number is DHS 22 GPD 111 02 01. The notice was created on June 27, 2022, with an original application closing date of July 29, 2022. The maximum award ceiling is $1,200,000, and FEMA anticipated making about 20 awards under this opportunity.

Overall, this grant is meant to help Region 2 jurisdictions build stronger, shared regional capacity for the worst-case incidents by improving coordination, strengthening preparedness capabilities, and pushing planning efforts to incorporate equity, climate resilience, and operational readiness as core components of catastrophic incident management.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the disaster prevention and relief sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 2" 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 Jun 27, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 29, 2022. (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 $1,200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments.

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