Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 6 | DHS 19 NPD 111 06 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 6 is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), administered through FEMA, designed to strengthen how states and local governments prepare for and manage truly large-scale disasters. The program focuses on catastrophic incidents, meaning events so severe, whether natural, accidental, or intentional (including terrorism), that they cause extraordinary mass casualties, major damage, or widespread disruption that can overwhelm normal government and community response systems. FEMA frames this concept using the National Response Framework (3rd edition, 2016) or any later edition that replaces it, emphasizing impacts not only on people but also on critical infrastructure, the economy, the environment, and the ability of government to function.

A central idea behind this grant is that catastrophic preparedness cannot be handled effectively in isolation by a single jurisdiction. Regionally linked systems, such as supply chains, transportation routes, mutual aid networks, and cross-border population movement, mean that prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery activities are interdependent. Because of that, RCPGP is built around regional collaboration and is explicitly intended to produce benefits that span multiple states rather than funding isolated, single-jurisdiction projects. The program aims to close known capability gaps, promote innovative regional solutions, and build on work that regional partners may already have underway instead of starting from scratch.

In practical terms, applicants are expected to propose projects that measurably improve readiness connected to the Food, Water, and Sheltering Community Lifeline. FEMA uses the Community Lifelines concept to describe the essential services that must be stabilized and restored quickly during major incidents to save lives and support community recovery. For this specific funding opportunity, proposed projects should show improvements through capability measures tied to the THIRA/SPR process (Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment and the Stakeholder Preparedness Review). The grant particularly points applicants toward strengthening the Housing core capability or the Logistics and Supply Chain Management core capability, since both are closely tied to sheltering, distribution of essentials, and sustaining displaced or impacted populations during catastrophic conditions.

The grant also pushes applicants to think beyond simply scaling up existing plans. The expectation is that catastrophic events require solutions that are more creative and integrated, drawing on cross-sector coordination across the whole community. That includes coordinating with private sector partners that own or operate many of the systems involved in food distribution, water provision, warehousing, transportation, and shelter-related support, while still respecting legal authorities and roles at each level of government. Projects are encouraged to create an ongoing preparedness cycle that blends planning, organizing, training, and exercising in a continuous loop, so regional partners are not only writing plans but also building relationships, testing assumptions, and improving performance over time.

From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity is listed as DHS 19 NPD 111 06 01 under CFDA 97.111. Eligible applicants include county governments, city or township governments, special district governments, independent school districts, and other entities as allowed under the program guidance (with the note that additional eligibility details may be provided in the full notice). The funding activity categories reflect its broad public purpose, including disaster prevention and relief, community development, and regional development. The notice was created on May 23, 2019, with an original application closing date of July 8, 2019. The anticipated maximum award amount is $1,500,000, and FEMA expected to make approximately 15 awards under this announcement.

Overall, the FY 2019 RCPGP - Region 6 opportunity is about improving the region-wide ability to withstand and recover from catastrophic incidents by strengthening lifeline-focused capabilities, using THIRA/SPR-informed gaps as the basis for investment, and building durable regional partnerships that can plan, train, and exercise together before disaster strikes.

• 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 6" 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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