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Opportunity Summary:

The Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program is a FEMA grant opportunity (Region 5) that uses cooperative agreements to help eligible partners carry out flood hazard and flood risk identification work tied to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). In practical terms, the program is meant to strengthen the pipeline of activities that support Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and related flood risk products by funding the management and mapping tasks that CTP partners are responsible for each fiscal year under FEMA program guidance. While mapping is a core theme, the announcement makes clear that eligible projects may or may not be strictly geospatial, as long as they support flood hazard and risk identification goals.

This opportunity is discretionary and is issued as a cooperative agreement rather than a simple grant, which typically means FEMA expects substantial involvement during the project, such as coordination on scope, standards, deliverables, schedules, and quality assurance. The funded work is framed broadly as "program management and mapping related activities" defined annually in CTP guidance, signaling that the exact tasks and priorities can shift year to year based on FEMA needs, mapping schedules, risk communication priorities, and the maturity of local or state programs. The emphasis is on building and maintaining a capable partner network that can help FEMA deliver accurate, up-to-date flood hazard information and risk identification outputs.

To be eligible, an applicant must already be a CTP partner and must either be an NFIP community in good standing or represent one. The announcement also stresses capacity and readiness: applicants must be able to perform the proposed activities and must already have non-federally funded processes and/or systems in place that support work contributing to flood hazard and risk identification. That requirement is important because it signals FEMA is not looking to fund the creation of a brand-new flood mapping program from scratch; instead, FEMA is looking to invest in organizations that already have operational capability, workflows, data practices, or program infrastructure that can be leveraged and scaled with federal support.

A wide range of entities can apply, reflecting the program's partnership model. Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, and city or township governments; federally recognized tribal governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; and nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). This range aligns with how flood risk and mapping responsibilities often sit across different levels of government and technical institutions, and it allows FEMA to work with organizations that can bring local knowledge, existing datasets, engineering or hydrology capability, GIS and surveying expertise, and ongoing community engagement channels.

The funding details in the posting indicate a substantial overall program scale for the cycle referenced: an estimated total funding amount of $69,000,000 and an expectation of about 50 awards. The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) listing is 97.045, which corresponds to the Cooperating Technical Partners program. The posting indicates there is no cost sharing or matching requirement stated for this announcement, which lowers the barrier for eligible partners to apply, although applicants still need to demonstrate that they have non-federally funded systems or processes already in place to support the funded work.

Key administrative details from the listing include the funding opportunity number DHS-11-MT-045-005-99 and the title "Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program." The opportunity was posted on August 11, 2011, with an original and current closing date of August 26, 2011, and an archive date of September 25, 2011. The activity category is listed under Science and Technology and other Research and Development, which is consistent with the technical nature of flood hazard analysis, mapping methodologies, and risk identification products, even when the immediate outputs are applied tools like maps, models, datasets, or risk communication materials.

For applicants or interested parties needing the complete announcement and instructions, the notice points to Grants.gov as the primary information source. It also provides a FEMA contact for access issues: the Systems and Business Support Branch at GMD_Systems_Branch@fema.gov.

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