Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 3 | DHS 19 NPD 111 03 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 3 is a discretionary FEMA grant under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen how states and local communities prepare for and manage truly large-scale disasters. The program focuses on building state and local capacity by improving and expanding regional collaboration, recognizing that catastrophic events rarely stay within one jurisdiction and that effective preparedness depends on coordinated planning across neighboring governments, sectors, and systems.

RCPGP is aimed at catastrophic incidents as defined in the National Response Framework (3rd edition, 2016, or any later edition). In practical terms, this means any natural or human-caused event, including terrorism, that creates extraordinary levels of casualties, damage, or disruption and severely impacts people, infrastructure, the environment, the economy, national morale, or government operations. The grant is built around the idea that prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery are deeply interconnected across a region, so planning and capability-building have to be cohesive and regional rather than isolated within a single county or city.

A central objective of the program is to close known capability gaps, encourage innovative regional solutions, and build on efforts that already exist rather than starting from scratch. Applicants are expected to propose projects that measurably improve readiness related to the Food, Water, and Sheltering Community Lifeline, with an emphasis on improvements reflected in the THIRA/SPR process (Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment and Stakeholder Preparedness Review). Specifically, project outcomes should increase capability levels tied to core capabilities such as Housing or Logistics and Supply Chain Management, since those functions are essential for sustaining life and stabilizing communities when a catastrophic event overwhelms normal systems.

The program also emphasizes that stabilizing and restoring lifelines during catastrophes requires more than simply scaling up existing plans. FEMA is looking for projects that tap into cross-sector coordination, including appropriate engagement with private sector partners, while still respecting legal authorities and roles across federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels. In other words, proposals should reflect realistic operational relationships: how supplies will move, how sheltering will be managed, how housing needs will be addressed, and how partners will coordinate decisions when demand far exceeds routine capacity.

RCPGP encourages a continuous improvement approach where regional partners build and sustain a cycle of planning, organizing, training, and exercising. This means applicants should think in terms of durable regional capability: joint plans that can be implemented, governance structures that keep partners aligned, training that builds shared procedures, and exercises that validate and refine the approach. The overarching expectation is that funded activities will improve the region’s collective readiness posture for catastrophic incidents and produce benefits that clearly extend beyond a single jurisdiction.

From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity is listed as DHS 19 NPD 111 03 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’s additional eligibility guidance. The funding activity categories span business and commerce, community development, disaster prevention and relief, and regional development, reflecting how lifeline stabilization and logistics planning often require multi-sector coordination.

Key dates and funding parameters for the FY 2019 posting include a creation date of May 23, 2019, and an original application deadline of July 8, 2019. The maximum award ceiling is $1,500,000, and FEMA anticipated making approximately 15 awards. The program is explicitly intended to be regional in nature and to benefit multiple states, reinforcing that proposed projects should demonstrate regional interdependence, shared outcomes, and collaborative implementation rather than single-agency improvements.

• 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 3" 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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