Application Notes:

Applications will be accepted beginning on October 16, 2023, and must be received by 3:00 p.m. ET on April 18, 2025.

Applications must be submitted online at go.fema.gov.

Applications must include:

• SF 424
• Certification regarding lobbying
• SF 424A and/or SF 424C (as applicable)
• SF 424B and/or SF 424D (as applicable)
• SF LLL
• Benefit/cost analysis or other documentation that validates cost effectiveness for hazard mitigation projects (if applicable)
• Go/no-go milestones (if applicable)
• National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements for hazard mitigation projects (if applicable)

The following are required in order to submit an application:

• Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
• SAM (System for Award Management) registration
• SPOC (state Single Point of Contact) notification

Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam. Applicants in states participating in the SPOC program must contact the relevant SPOC listed in the SPOC file before applying.

Applications will be evaluated according to programmatic criteria, financial integrity criteria, and supplemental financial integrity criteria, as detailed on pages 39-47 of the NOFA file.

Refer to the NOFA, TechnicalEvalCriteria, and QualitativeEvalCriteria files for additional application information.

Match Notes:

In general, applicants must provide 25 percent of the total project costs via cash and/or in-kind contributions.

The matching requirement for applicants or subapplicants applying on behalf of an economically disadvantaged rural community, as defined on pages 25-26 of the NOFA file, will be reduced to 10 percent of the total project costs. The same reduced rate is available to federally recognized tribal nations meeting the definition of an economically disadvantaged rural community that apply directly to the funding agency as applicants.

In addition, to lessen the financial burden on communities to perform resilience-related activities, the matching requirement will be reduced to 10 percent of the total project costs for hazard mitigation projects and capability and capacity-building activities performed within and/or that primarily benefit a designated community disaster resilience zone, as defined on pages 26-27 of the NOFA file.

For insular areas, including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the funding agency will automatically waive the matching requirement when the nonfederal cost share for the entire award is less than $200,000. If the nonfederal cost share for the entire award is $200,000 or more, the funding agency may waive all or part of the matching requirement at the request of the award recipient.

Matching contributions may not include:

• Other federal award funds, unless the other federal statutory authority allows the funds to be used to meet matching requirements
• Third-party in-kind contributions used to meet the matching requirements of any other federal program

Funding Notes:

A total of $750 million is available to support awards through this program, as follows:

• State/territory allocation: a total of $112 million is available to support awards of up to $2 million
• Tribal set-aside: a total of $50 million is available to support awards
• State/territory building code plus-up: a total of $112 is available to support awards of up to $2 million
• Tribal building code plus-up: a total of $25 million is available to support awards of up to $2 million
• National competition: a total of $451 million is available to support awards of up to $50 million

Up to 10 percent of funding, or $45 million, will be selected for project scoping activities.

Any applicant may not receive more than 20 percent of the total available funding. The 20 percent cap will include the combined total of all funding category requests.

The project period is 36 months, starting on the date of award. Extension requests will be granted only due to compelling legal, policy, or operational challenges.

For state/territory allocation awards, a total of $1.5 million must be used for capability and capacity building activities per applicant.

For tribal set-aside awards, the combined cost for any capability and capacity-building activities must not exceed $2 million federal cost share per applicant. In addition, the applicant's highest-ranked subapplication must not exceed $2 million in federal cost share.

For state/territory allocation, tribal set-aside, and national competition awards, up to 10 percent of any subapplication may be used for information dissemination activities.

Management costs are limited to 15 percent of the total award amount, of which no more than 10 percent may be used by the recipient and 5 percent by the subrecipient.

Tribes applying as subapplicants, including tribes applying as both the applicant and subapplicant, may submit up to 5 percent of the total budget for subapplicant management costs.

Funds may not be used for:

• Construction activities for which ground disturbance has already been initiated or completed
• Non-construction activities that have already started
• Matching or cost sharing requirements for other federal grants and cooperative agreements
• Lobbying
• Prosecuting claims against the federal government or any other government entity
• Covered telecommunications equipment or services, as detailed on pages 36-38 of the NOFA file

January 17, 2025
Additional program information has been released and attached as the FactSheet, AppTips, TechnicalEvalCriteria, QualitativeEvalCriteria, Scoping&PhasedProjectGuide, AreaMapsGuide, and TribalInformation files. The Eligibility and Financial sections have been updated accordingly.