Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 8 | DHS 20 GPD 111 08 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 8 is a discretionary FEMA grant under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen how communities and governments plan for and manage truly large-scale disasters. It is funded through the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-93) and is intended to build regional capacity for catastrophic incident preparedness by improving and expanding collaboration across jurisdictions. The program is based on the idea that major disasters do not stop at city or county lines, and that effective prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery depend on coordinated regional planning and shared capabilities.

A central focus of this FY 2020 opportunity is closing known capability gaps in two specific core capability areas: Housing and Logistics and Supply Chain Management. In practice, this means the grant is aimed at helping regions address the kinds of problems that become overwhelming during catastrophic incidents, such as sourcing and coordinating temporary or long-term housing solutions at scale, maintaining the flow and tracking of critical supplies, and ensuring the logistics systems needed to move resources where they are needed are resilient and well-coordinated across multiple jurisdictions. The program also emphasizes encouraging innovative regional solutions, meaning applicants are expected to propose approaches that improve how partners work together across a broader region, rather than duplicating isolated local efforts.

The program uses the National Response Framework (4th edition, 2019) definition of a catastrophic incident. Under that definition, a catastrophic incident can be natural or human-caused (including terrorism) and results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption. These impacts can severely affect people, infrastructure, the environment, the economy, national morale, and the ability of government to function. The grant opportunity highlights that because these impacts create strong interdependencies among neighboring jurisdictions and systems, catastrophic planning needs to be regional and cohesive, not fragmented.

From an administrative standpoint, the funding opportunity is listed as "Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 8" with the funding opportunity number DHS 20 GPD 111 08 01 and CFDA number 97.111. It is offered as a grant (funding instrument type: Grant) under the disaster prevention and relief activity category. Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, and city or township governments. The opportunity was created on May 20, 2020, with an original application closing date of July 15, 2020. Individual awards can be up to an award ceiling of $1,000,000, and FEMA projected approximately 20 awards under this opportunity.

Overall, this Region 8 RCPGP competition is structured to help governmental partners work together on the hardest preparedness challenges that surface during catastrophic events, particularly around large-scale housing needs and maintaining logistics and supply chains when infrastructure and normal distribution systems are disrupted. The key theme is regional collaboration: building shared plans, coordinated strategies, and interoperable approaches that allow multiple jurisdictions to respond and recover as one connected system when facing extraordinary incidents.

• 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 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 20, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 15, 2020. (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 $1,000,000.00 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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