Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant Program

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Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant Program

The Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Administration announces the 2018 Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant application cycle. Funds are provided to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings and structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program. In 2018, the FMA program will prioritize proposals that address community flood risk with two types of community flood mitigation activities:

  1. Advance assistance for flood mitigation design and development of community flood mitigation projects and mitigation projects that address community flood risk for the purpose of reducing National Flood Insurance Program flood claim payments.
  2. FMA technical assistance, mitigation planning, and mitigation projects reducing the risk to severe repetitive loss and repetitive loss properties. Applicants may submit a maximum of one advanced assistance and one community mitigation project sub-application.

Eligible Applicants: Federally-recognized Native American Tribal governments and state governments (all other applicants are considered sub-applicants under the State or Tribal application.

Award Ceiling: $100,000 for advanced assistance projects and up to $10 million for community mitigation projects

Match: 25 percent

Deadline: January 31, 2019

Contact: Please contact your State Disaster/Flood Mitigation staff, call the HMA helpline at 1-866-222-3580, or e-mail at HMAGrantsHelpline@fema.dhs.gov

For further information or assistance in applying for funding opportunities, contact KLJ at 701-355-8400.