Fiscal Year 2010 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Fiscal Year 2010 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) is a discretionary FEMA grant under CFDA 97.111 designed to strengthen catastrophic incident preparedness in a small set of pre-selected, high-risk, high-consequence urban areas. The core aim is not day-to-day emergency management, but the harder problem of planning for low-probability, high-impact events that can overwhelm normal systems, such as major natural disasters or complex all-hazards catastrophes. The program is built around improving how a region plans, organizes, and coordinates before a disaster occurs, so that multiple jurisdictions and disciplines can operate from a common playbook when conditions are chaotic and resources are strained.

RCPGP focuses heavily on regional, all-hazards catastrophic planning. In practice, that means building and sustaining integrated planning communities across the metro region (and often across county and state lines) and producing usable plans, protocols, and procedures that clarify roles, decision-making, communications, and resource coordination during a catastrophic event. A key theme is fixing shortcomings in existing plans rather than creating documents that sit on a shelf. The opportunity emphasizes strengthening the planning process itself, improving coordination mechanisms, and making sure the planning products translate into operational capability.

Another central feature of the program is linking what gets identified in catastrophic plans to real-world resource and investment decisions. RCPGP is intended to help regions identify operational needs through catastrophic planning and then connect those needs to how resources are allocated and aligned, including the better organization of existing assets. The grant supports innovative approaches to catastrophic preparedness through planning and personnel, with an emphasis on improving the way existing operational resources are coordinated across the selected areas rather than simply purchasing new equipment.

For FY 2010, the estimated total funding amount is $33.6 million, with an expected 11 awards. A cost-sharing or matching requirement applies. The funding opportunity number is DHS-10-NPD-111-006-01, and the program was posted and created on December 8, 2009. The application closing date was April 19, 2010, and the opportunity was archived on May 19, 2010. Applicants were directed to closely follow the submission requirements in the FY 2010 RCPGP Guidance and Application Kit, which includes tables listing site-by-site allocations.

Eligibility is narrow and limited to state governments, specifically the State Administrative Agency (SAA) designated by the Governor of each state or territory. The SAA is the only entity allowed to apply directly to FEMA for these funds and is responsible for administering the award. This FY 2010 cycle was limited to the pre-designated eleven high-risk, high-consequence urban areas within the ten RCPGP sites that had already received RCPGP funding in the FY 2009 cycle. In other words, this was not an open competition for new regions; it was targeted continuation funding for specific previously selected sites.

The administering agency listed is FEMA (referenced here with “Region 6” in the source), and support contacts were provided for access and application help, including the Centralized Scheduling and Information Desk (CSID) Help Line at (800) 368-6498 and askcsid@dhs.gov, the FEMA Call Center at (866) 927-5646 and ASK-GMD@dhs.gov, and the RCPGP account contact at RCPGP@dhs.gov.

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