Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 7 | DHS 19 NPD 111 07 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 7 is a discretionary FEMA grant under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen how states and local jurisdictions prepare for and manage catastrophic incidents. In the National Response Framework (3rd edition, 2016, or any later version), a catastrophic incident is described as a natural or human-caused event, including terrorism, that produces extraordinary levels of casualties, damage, or disruption and severely impacts people, infrastructure, the environment, the economy, national morale, or the ability of governments to function. The core idea behind this funding is that truly large-scale disasters do not respect city or state boundaries, and the systems communities depend on are tightly connected across a region, so preparedness and planning have to be regional rather than isolated.

The program focuses on improving and expanding regional collaboration across the full spectrum of emergency management activities: Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery. Its stated objective is to close known capability gaps, encourage innovative regional solutions to catastrophic-incident challenges, and build on regional work already underway. Rather than simply scaling up existing plans, RCPGP emphasizes solutions that reflect real interdependencies and require coordinated decision-making among multiple jurisdictions and sectors. Applicants are pushed toward approaches that use cross-sector coordination, while still respecting the specific legal authorities and roles of government agencies and private sector partners.

A major priority area for this funding is the Food, Water, and Sheltering Community Lifeline. Proposed projects are expected to measurably increase capability levels tied to that lifeline, using the core capabilities tracked through the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR). Specifically, the opportunity highlights improvements that show up in Housing or Logistics and Supply Chain Management core capabilities as reported in THIRA/SPR. In practical terms, that means the grant is aiming to help regions get better at sustaining and restoring essential supplies and sheltering resources during catastrophic events, including the logistics systems and coordination mechanisms needed to deliver aid at scale.

RCPGP also strongly encourages applicants to build projects that create a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, and exercising with regional partners across the whole community. This reflects FEMA's expectation that readiness improves when partners repeatedly plan together, test assumptions through exercises, identify gaps, and refine procedures, rather than treating preparedness as a one-time planning document. The intended outcome is a stronger collective readiness posture across a region, especially for restoring critical lifelines under extreme conditions.

Eligibility for the Region 7 competition includes county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, and other entities as allowed by the additional eligibility guidance referenced in the full notice. The funding instrument is a grant, listed under CFDA 97.111, and categorized under several activity areas including disaster prevention and relief, community development, and regional development. The opportunity number is DHS 19 NPD 111 07 01, and it was posted May 23, 2019, with an original application deadline of July 8, 2019.

In terms of scale, the notice lists an award ceiling of $1,500,000 and anticipates making around 15 awards. The program is explicitly intended to be regional in nature and to benefit multiple states, reinforcing that competitive proposals should demonstrate multi-jurisdiction collaboration, shared planning assumptions, and outcomes that strengthen regional capacity rather than only a single locality.

• 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 7" 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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