Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 8 | DHS 20 MT 045 08 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 8 is a FEMA grant opportunity offered through the Department of Homeland Security as a cooperative agreement under CFDA 97.045 (Disaster Prevention and Relief). Its core purpose is to strengthen and improve the effectiveness of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by expanding and formalizing partnerships with state, tribal, regional, and local organizations that can help FEMA identify flood hazards, assess flood risk, and translate that information into actions that reduce losses and improve community resilience. In practical terms, the program is designed to bring more technical capacity and local knowledge into FEMA's flood mapping and risk communication work, so flood hazards are better understood, mapped more accurately, and used more effectively in planning and mitigation.

A central focus of this opportunity is supporting FEMA's Flood Hazard Mapping Program and its broader risk identification and risk assessment efforts, especially through the Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning (Risk MAP) initiative. Risk MAP is FEMA's framework for producing and sharing high-quality flood hazard and risk data that communities can actually use. The stated vision is not just to generate maps for compliance, but to deliver credible, usable information that raises public awareness of flood risk and encourages concrete steps that reduce risk to life and property. Through CTP partnerships, FEMA can develop new flood hazard datasets and mapping products for communities that have never had their flood risks fully identified, while also updating and improving existing Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and related datasets so they reflect current conditions and support better decisions.

The FY 2020 emphasis continues Risk MAP's push toward stronger mitigation outcomes, higher technical credibility, and better engagement with communities across the full mapping lifecycle. The opportunity highlights four main directional priorities. First, it prioritizes starting new projects in watersheds that face high risk and have significant needs for updated flood hazard information, reflecting an intent to focus limited resources where they can deliver the most benefit. Second, it emphasizes integrating mapping products and other stakeholder-provided data into mitigation planning and risk assessments, with the goal of moving from "data for data's sake" to information that directly informs mitigation strategies and investment decisions. Third, it aims to help create conditions that generate real community actions to reduce flood risk, meaning the mapping and risk communication work should be connected to steps like mitigation planning improvements, stronger understanding of flood exposure, and better support for local risk reduction choices. Fourth, it stresses coordinated partnering to maximize the impact of dollars spent at the local, state, and federal levels, specifically by aligning efforts and reducing duplication so multiple funding streams and programs reinforce each other rather than overlapping inefficiently.

Eligibility is broad and includes state governments, counties, cities and townships, special district governments, federally recognized tribal governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations (other than institutions of higher education). This range reflects the program's partnership model: FEMA is seeking capable entities that can contribute technical, planning, engineering, mapping, or risk communication expertise and can coordinate with communities and other stakeholders. The listing notes an expected five awards for the Region 8 opportunity. The posted award ceiling is listed as 0, which typically indicates that the ceiling is not specified in the summary field or depends on FEMA's allocation decisions, project scoping, or available program funds rather than a single fixed cap presented in the notice summary.

Key administrative details in the posted opportunity include the funding opportunity number DHS 20 MT 045 08 01, a creation date of March 2, 2020, and an original application closing date of May 1, 2020. Because it is a cooperative agreement rather than a simple grant, recipients should expect more substantial federal involvement during execution, such as coordination on technical standards, mapping processes, data quality expectations, deliverables, schedules, and stakeholder engagement approaches. Overall, the opportunity is framed as a way to build and sustain partnerships that produce credible flood hazard information, strengthen public understanding of flood risk, and support mitigation actions that reduce long-term flood losses while advancing FEMA's broader national preparedness and resilience goals.

• 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) 2020 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 Mar 02, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 01, 2020. (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 5 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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