Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 8 | DHS 19 NPD 111 08 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 8 is a FEMA discretionary grant opportunity under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen how states and local jurisdictions prepare for and manage catastrophic incidents. The program centers on the idea that truly large-scale disasters, whether natural events, accidental manmade incidents, or deliberate acts like terrorism, can overwhelm individual communities and create cascading impacts across infrastructure, public services, the economy, and government functions. Using the National Response Framework definition, a catastrophic incident is one that causes extraordinary mass casualties, severe damage, or major disruption across critical systems and daily life, making it essential to plan and operate beyond single-jurisdiction boundaries.

A major theme of this grant is regional collaboration. The opportunity emphasizes that prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery functions are deeply interconnected across neighboring jurisdictions and states, especially during catastrophic events where supply chains, shelters, transportation routes, utilities, and emergency services do not align neatly with local boundaries. Because of these interdependencies, RCPGP is structured to support regional solutions that bring multiple partners together to plan and act cohesively. The intent is not to duplicate existing emergency plans, but to close clearly identified capability gaps, encourage innovative approaches to catastrophic preparedness, and build on established regional efforts that already exist.

RCPGP projects are expected to show measurable improvements in the Food, Water, and Sheltering Community Lifeline, with progress demonstrated through the Housing or Logistics and Supply Chain Management core capabilities. These capability measures are tied to what jurisdictions report through the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and the Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR). In practical terms, competitive projects are likely to focus on improving how a region can provide sheltering at scale, move and distribute critical supplies, maintain or rapidly restore access to food and potable water, and coordinate logistics when normal systems are disrupted. The grant underscores that stabilizing and restoring these lifelines in a catastrophe often requires more than simply expanding existing resources. It calls for cross-sector coordination that leverages public agencies, nonprofits, and private sector partners while still respecting each organization’s legal authorities and operational responsibilities.

The program also encourages applicants to treat preparedness as a continuous cycle rather than a one-time plan. Applicants are pushed to develop efforts that integrate planning, organizing, training, and exercising with regional partners across the whole community. That means projects may involve coordinated regional plans, governance or coordination structures, joint training programs, and realistic exercises that test multi-jurisdiction operations and logistics under catastrophic conditions, with lessons learned feeding back into updated plans and improved readiness.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed as DHS 19 NPD 111 08 01 under CFDA 97.111. Eligible applicants include county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, and other entities as further clarified in the eligibility notes of the full announcement. The funding instrument is a grant, and the funding activity categories reflect its broad emergency management and community resilience purpose, including disaster prevention and relief, community development, and regional development. The notice was created on May 23, 2019, with an original application deadline of July 8, 2019. The award ceiling is $1,500,000, and FEMA anticipated making about 15 awards. Overall, the opportunity is tailored to initiatives that benefit multiple states and jurisdictions within the region by building shared capacity to keep essential lifelines functioning and to coordinate a unified response when catastrophic events exceed local capabilities.

• 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 8" 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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