Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 10 | DHS 20 MT 045 10 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program for FEMA Region 10 is a discretionary funding opportunity run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through FEMA. It is offered as a cooperative agreement, meaning FEMA is not just providing funds and stepping back, but is expected to stay involved in shaping, coordinating, and guiding the work as it moves forward. The program sits within the broader Disaster Prevention and Relief mission space (CFDA 97.045) and is designed to improve how flood hazards are identified, mapped, communicated, and ultimately reduced through practical mitigation actions.

At its core, the CTP Program exists to strengthen and improve the effectiveness of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), especially the NFIP Flood Hazard Mapping Program. FEMA uses the CTP framework to build and maintain long-term working partnerships with capable entities at the state, tribal, regional, and local levels. The reasoning is straightforward: flood risk work is most effective when the organizations closest to the communities, watersheds, and local data can contribute directly to mapping and risk analysis, while FEMA ensures national consistency, technical standards, and alignment with NFIP requirements.

A central vehicle for the work funded under this opportunity is FEMA's Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning (Risk MAP) initiative. Risk MAP focuses on producing technically credible flood hazard data and Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) that help the public and decision-makers understand flood risk and take steps to reduce it. This includes developing flood hazard information for places that have never had their risks fully identified, as well as updating and improving existing maps where older data or changing conditions make current products less reliable. The intended end result is not only better maps, but better outcomes: more awareness, stronger mitigation planning, and fewer losses to life and property over time.

The opportunity also ties directly to larger national preparedness and resilience priorities. FEMA positions CTP as supporting "Strengthening National Preparedness and Resilience," one of the Department of Homeland Security's core missions, and aligning with broader federal policy goals such as the National Mitigation Investment Strategy and Presidential Policy Directive 8 on National Preparedness. In practical terms, the program is meant to help communities be more ready for catastrophic disasters by making flood risk information more usable, more accurate, and more likely to drive real mitigation decisions.

For FY 2020, FEMA highlights several focus areas that shape what Region 10 partners are expected to work on. First, FEMA emphasizes initiating new projects in higher-risk watersheds where flood hazard data updates are most needed, reflecting a prioritization approach rather than spreading resources thinly everywhere at once. Second, FEMA stresses integration: using data produced by mapping partners and other stakeholders and ensuring it feeds directly into mitigation planning, risk assessments, and the development of actionable strategies rather than being treated as a stand-alone mapping exercise. Third, the program aims to encourage and enable community actions that reduce flood risk, making community engagement and risk communication part of the lifecycle of mapping work. Fourth, FEMA underscores coordination and efficiency by partnering in ways that maximize combined local, state, tribal, and federal investments and reduce duplication, so funds are used in concert rather than on overlapping efforts.

Eligibility is broad but targeted to organizations that can credibly contribute to technical flood risk work and public-serving outcomes. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; federally recognized tribal governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; and nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions in that nonprofit category). This range reflects the reality that flood mapping and risk reduction often rely on a mix of government agencies, technical districts, universities, and mission-driven nonprofits.

Administratively, the opportunity is identified as Funding Opportunity Number DHS 20 MT 045 10 01, created March 2, 2020, with an original application closing date of May 1, 2020. FEMA anticipated about 20 awards. The listing shows an award ceiling of 0, which typically indicates that a specific maximum dollar cap was not stated in the summarized record and that applicants would need to rely on the full notice or FEMA guidance for budget expectations, scoping, and allocation details.

Overall, this grant opportunity is best understood as a partnership-driven pathway for Region 10 stakeholders to help FEMA deliver better flood hazard identification, more defensible and useful mapping products, and stronger community-level mitigation outcomes. The program is explicitly designed to turn technical flood data into practical decisions, with an emphasis on high-risk areas, credible methods, meaningful engagement, and coordinated investment across levels of government and community partners.

• The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security - FEMA in the disaster prevention and relief sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program - Region 10" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 97.045.
• This funding opportunity was created on Mar 02, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by May 01, 2020. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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