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Opportunity Summary:

The FY 2014 Cooperating Technical Partner (CTP) Region 5 opportunity is a FEMA grant/cooperative agreement offering designed to strengthen the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by building practical, long-term partnerships with state, tribal, regional, and local organizations that help reduce flood losses and improve community resilience. The basic idea is that FEMA can fund qualified partners to do work that improves flood hazard data, flood risk communication, and flood mapping products that NFIP communities rely on, including Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and other related risk products. By investing in partners that already have technical capacity and local knowledge, FEMA aims to increase local ownership of flood risk data and make the mapping and risk-management process more effective and responsive to community needs.

This opportunity is structured as a discretionary cooperative agreement under CFDA 97.045 (Cooperating Technical Partners). For Region 5 in FY 2014, FEMA anticipated making about seven awards, with an estimated total funding amount of $5,495,015. The funding opportunity number is DHS-14-MT-045-005-01. The posting date was July 1, 2014, with an original closing date of August 8, 2014, later extended to August 18, 2014, and the opportunity archived on September 18, 2014. The notice lists an award ceiling and floor as 0, which typically signals that individual award amounts vary by the scope of proposed work and are determined through FEMA review and negotiation rather than a fixed minimum or maximum stated in the synopsis. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement identified for this announcement.

Eligible applicants include a broad set of public and nonprofit entities, such as state governments, county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, federally recognized tribal governments, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and 501(c)(3) nonprofits (other than higher education institutions). However, eligibility is not simply based on organizational type. Applicants must be approved by FEMA Headquarters and must already be qualified CTPs. In practical terms, that means having a signed CTP Partnership Agreement with FEMA Headquarters or a FEMA Regional Office before an award can be made. Applicants also must either be an NFIP community in good standing (or represent one) or be a FEMA-approved nonprofit whose primary mission supports the NFIP. Beyond that, FEMA expects applicants to already have non-federally funded processes or systems in place for collecting, developing, evaluating, sharing, and communicating flood hazard and risk assessment data and mapping. The program is meant to enhance and leverage existing capability, not to create it from scratch.

The types of activities supported under the CTP Program generally fall into three broad buckets: program management, technical risk analysis and mapping, and communication of flood risk information. Projects can include developing or updating flood risk data, contributing to the production or maintenance of flood maps and supporting datasets, and improving how flood hazard and risk information is shared with communities and stakeholders. The overarching goal is to help NFIP State Coordinating Agencies and NFIP-participating communities carry out their ongoing NFIP regulatory responsibilities while also strengthening broader mitigation efforts across the public and private sectors. FEMA also frames the work as a way to promote stronger local involvement in mapping and risk-product development so that communities have more investment in, and better understanding of, the data that drives floodplain management and insurance requirements.

Performance and reporting expectations are a central part of the award. Recipients must demonstrate the ability to meet CTP Program performance metrics and provide timely, accurate reporting to FEMA documenting accomplishments. When applicable, partners must also agree to use FEMA's Mapping Information Platform (MIP) to manage and report activity status, including updating activities within the MIP at least every 30 days in the Studies Workflow and even more frequently in the Revisions Workflow. These requirements reflect FEMA's emphasis on measurable outputs, schedule discipline, and transparent progress tracking for mapping and related technical work.

FEMA strongly encourages prospective applicants to coordinate with FEMA before submitting an application. The intent is for applicants and FEMA to align early on priorities, objectives, and measurable outcomes, and to identify specific tasks that make sense within FEMA's regional and national mapping and risk-reduction goals. FEMA may also provide non-monetary support such as technical assistance, training, and data to help partners carry out projects within the eligible categories. Importantly, FEMA notes that any federal funds provided through a grant or cooperative agreement are intended to supplement, not replace, the partner's leveraged resources and data contributions that help complete the agreed-upon work.

Finally, awardees must comply with several layers of requirements: the terms and conditions of the federal award, the CTP Partnership Agreement, and the FEMA-approved Statement of Work or Mapping Activity Statement tied to the project. The administering agency is the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA. Additional program information is referenced through FEMA's Cooperating Technical Partners Program webpage, and technical access issues for the full announcement were directed to FEMA's GMD Systems Branch via the provided email contact.

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