Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 9 | DHS 22 GPD 111 09 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 9 is a FEMA grant opportunity under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen how jurisdictions plan and work together for truly large-scale disasters. The program is rooted in the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103) and is intended to close known preparedness and response capability gaps, encourage practical and innovative regional solutions, and build on whatever collaborative planning and preparedness structures already exist across the region. Instead of focusing on a single city or county in isolation, this grant emphasizes a cohesive regional approach because catastrophic events rarely respect jurisdictional boundaries and often overwhelm local systems unless partners have already coordinated roles, resources, decision-making, and recovery strategies.

RCPGP funding is geared toward improving regional capacity to manage catastrophic incidents, meaning incidents so severe that they create extraordinary levels of casualties, damage, or disruption. FEMA points to the National Response Framework (4th edition or any superseding edition) for the definition of a catastrophic incident, which includes both natural and human-caused events, including terrorism, that severely affect the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale, or the ability of government to function. The underlying idea is that prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery all work better when planning is integrated across multiple jurisdictions and disciplines ahead of time, rather than improvised during a crisis.

This FY 2022 program is also explicitly aligned with the 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan. That plan sets three agency-wide goals that shape how FEMA wants to evolve emergency management: promoting and instilling equity as a foundation of emergency management, leading the whole community in climate resilience, and sustaining a ready FEMA and a prepared nation. Reflecting that alignment, the strategic priorities for this grant are equity, climate resilience, and readiness. In practice, that means funded activities are expected to support stronger regional readiness for catastrophic events while also accounting for climate-driven risks and ensuring that preparedness efforts do not leave behind communities that historically have been underserved or face higher risk due to social, economic, health, housing, or infrastructure vulnerabilities.

A key emphasis in the description is equity. FEMA frames this as ensuring fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals before, during, and after disasters, with particular attention to disadvantaged groups who may face heightened risk from current hazards, including those worsened by climate change. The program’s intent is not only to improve broad regional capabilities, but also to ensure planning and collaboration meaningfully incorporate the needs of underserved and at-risk populations so that outcomes in a catastrophic event are more consistent and less unequal across communities.

Administratively, this opportunity is a discretionary grant (Funding Opportunity Number DHS 22 GPD 111 09 01) in the disaster prevention and relief category under CFDA 97.111. Eligible applicants include state governments as well as county and city or township governments. The opportunity was posted on June 27, 2022, with an original closing date of July 29, 2022. FEMA anticipated making about 20 awards, and the listed award ceiling is $1,200,000. Overall, the program is structured to support regional-scale catastrophic incident preparedness by strengthening collaboration, addressing capability gaps, and advancing equity- and climate-informed readiness across participating jurisdictions.

• 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) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 9" 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 Jun 27, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 29, 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 $1,200,000.00 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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