Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - HQ | DHS 22 MT 045 00 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - HQ is a FEMA grant opportunity, offered by the Department of Homeland Security, designed to strengthen and improve how the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) works in practice, especially the parts tied to understanding and mapping flood risk. The basic idea is to expand FEMA's capacity by building hands-on partnerships with qualified state, tribal, regional, and local entities (and some eligible nonprofits and universities) that can help produce better flood hazard data and mapping products. By doing that, FEMA aims to help communities identify their flood risks more accurately, communicate those risks to the public more effectively, and ultimately take steps that reduce loss of life and property from flooding.

A central focus of the program is support for FEMA's Flood Hazard Mapping Program, including FEMA's Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning (Risk MAP) initiative. Risk MAP is FEMA's broader effort to move beyond just producing flood maps and toward delivering high-quality risk information that people can understand and use. The goal is not only technical accuracy, but also practical impact: improving public awareness of flood hazards and motivating concrete actions like mitigation projects, better land-use decisions, and stronger local planning. Through CTP partnerships, FEMA can fund and coordinate mapping and risk assessment work that either fills gaps in places that have never had their flood risks properly identified or improves existing Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and related datasets so they reflect current conditions and better support decision-making.

The opportunity is positioned as part of larger national preparedness and resilience priorities. It ties directly to the DHS 2020-2024 Strategic Plan goal of strengthening national preparedness and resilience, and it supports FEMA-wide strategic priorities described as building a culture of preparedness and readying the nation for catastrophic disasters. It is also aligned with the National Mitigation Investment Strategy, which supports Presidential Policy Directive 8 (PPD-8) on National Preparedness. In practical terms, FEMA is signaling that flood mapping is not just a technical exercise; it is considered a foundational piece of national resilience because accurate flood risk information drives smarter investments, better building and development choices, and more targeted mitigation before disasters happen.

This funding is offered as a discretionary cooperative agreement, which typically means FEMA expects substantial involvement in the project work rather than simply issuing funds and stepping back. The funding activity categories listed are Disaster Prevention and Relief and Natural Resources, reflecting both the hazard mitigation side and the environmental and geographic data side of flood risk work. The program is associated with CFDA number 97.045, which is commonly used for FEMA hazard mitigation and related assistance programs.

Eligibility is broad but still centered on entities that can credibly carry out technical mapping, engineering, GIS, and risk communication work. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; federally recognized tribal governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; and 501(c)(3) nonprofits other than institutions of higher education. In other words, FEMA is inviting applications from organizations that either already manage floodplain, watershed, or emergency management responsibilities, or that have the scientific and technical expertise to contribute to FEMA's flood hazard identification and mapping mission.

For FY 2022, the opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number DHS 22 MT 045 00 01) was posted on June 9, 2022, with an original closing date of July 21, 2022. FEMA anticipated making about five awards, with an award ceiling of $1,500,000. That ceiling suggests projects can be substantial in scale, potentially covering multi-community mapping updates, new data development, modeling, map modernization efforts, or similar tasks that support the production and improvement of flood hazard datasets and map products. Additional program background and examples of Risk MAP goals and outcomes are available through FEMA's flood mapping and CTP program webpages.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the disaster prevention and relief, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - HQ" 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 Jun 09, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 21, 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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• 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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