Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 2 | DHS 19 NPD 111 02 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 2 is a discretionary FEMA grant under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen how states and local jurisdictions prepare for truly large-scale disasters. The core idea is that catastrophic events do not respect jurisdictional lines, so preparedness cannot be built effectively by any single city, county, or agency working in isolation. Instead, the program funds efforts that improve and expand regional collaboration so multiple jurisdictions can plan, coordinate, and operate together when an incident overwhelms normal capabilities.

FEMA anchors the program in the National Response Framework definition of a catastrophic incident, meaning any natural or human-caused event (including terrorism) that produces extraordinary mass casualties, damage, or disruption so severe that it significantly impacts the population, critical infrastructure, the environment, the economy, national morale, or the basic functioning of government. Because the cascading impacts of these incidents create strong regional interdependencies, the grant emphasizes a cohesive regional approach across the full emergency management cycle: Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery. In practical terms, this means applicants are expected to think beyond local plans and focus on how partners across a region will share information, align decision-making, manage scarce resources, and support one another during complex, long-duration crises.

The program objective is to close known capability gaps and encourage innovative, cross-jurisdictional solutions for catastrophic preparedness while building on regional efforts that already exist. A key priority for funded projects is strengthening the Food, Water, and Sheltering Community Lifeline. FEMA expects projects to demonstrate measurable improvements in related core capabilities, specifically Housing or Logistics and Supply Chain Management, as reflected in a jurisdiction's THIRA/SPR reporting (Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment and Stakeholder Preparedness Review). In other words, proposals should connect the work being funded to identifiable gaps and outcomes already documented through established national preparedness assessment processes.

RCPGP also highlights that stabilizing and restoring community lifelines in catastrophic scenarios usually requires more than simply scaling up existing plans. The grant pushes applicants to use regional and cross-sector coordination to develop solutions that account for private-sector roles and the legal authorities of different agencies at every level of government. The expectation is a whole-community approach that integrates government partners with critical infrastructure owners and operators, nongovernmental organizations, and other stakeholders who are essential to maintaining supply chains, housing support, sheltering operations, and commodity distribution under extreme conditions.

Another central theme is building a continuous improvement cycle rather than producing one-time plans. Applicants are encouraged to propose projects that combine planning, organizing, training, and exercising with regional partners, then use the results to refine procedures and strengthen collective readiness over time. This focus signals that FEMA is looking for durable regional capability-building, such as coordinated concepts of operations, mutual aid and resource-sharing approaches, multi-agency coordination structures, and regional exercises that test and validate how partners will operate together.

Administratively, the opportunity is listed as "Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 2" (Funding Opportunity Number DHS 19 NPD 111 02 01) under CFDA 97.111. Eligible applicants include county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, and other entities as clarified in the program's additional eligibility guidance. The opportunity was posted May 23, 2019, with an original application closing date of July 8, 2019. Awards were capped at $1,500,000 per award, and FEMA anticipated making about 15 awards. Finally, the program is explicitly intended to be regional in nature and to produce benefits spanning multiple states, reinforcing that successful proposals should show multi-jurisdiction participation and outcomes that improve readiness at a regional scale rather than within a single locality.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the business and commerce, community development, disaster prevention and relief, regional development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 2" 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 May 23, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 08, 2019. (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 $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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