Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 9 | DHS 20 GPD 111 09 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 9 is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) administered through FEMA. It is designed to strengthen how governments in a region plan and work together before, during, and after extremely large-scale disasters. The funding was provided through the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-93), and the program emphasizes building on existing preparedness work rather than starting from scratch, with a strong focus on collaboration across jurisdictions that share risks, infrastructure, and response systems.

The central goal of this grant is to close known preparedness capability gaps, specifically in the core capabilities of Housing and Logistics and Supply Chain Management. In practical terms, that means helping regions improve their ability to plan for and manage sheltering and longer-term housing needs when a catastrophic event displaces large numbers of people, while also strengthening how essential goods, equipment, and services are sourced, transported, tracked, and distributed under extreme conditions. The program also encourages innovative regional solutions, recognizing that catastrophic incidents often overwhelm any single city or county and require coordinated approaches that can scale quickly across multiple jurisdictions.

The grant is grounded in the definition of a catastrophic incident found in the National Response Framework (4th edition, 2019). Under that definition, a catastrophic incident can be natural or human-caused, including terrorism, and is characterized by extraordinary mass casualties, severe damage, or major disruption that significantly affects people, critical infrastructure, the environment, the economy, national morale, or basic government functions. Because these events create cascading impacts across boundaries and systems, the program stresses that prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery are interdependent across a region. The underlying message is that catastrophic planning cannot be done effectively in isolation; it needs a cohesive regional approach that accounts for shared lifelines, mutual aid realities, and cross-border dependencies.

Administratively, this opportunity is listed as Funding Opportunity Number DHS 20 GPD 111 09 01 and falls under the Disaster Prevention and Relief activity category with CFDA number 97.111. The funding instrument is a grant, and eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, and city or township governments. The posting indicates an anticipated maximum award amount (award ceiling) of $1,000,000 and an expectation of up to 20 awards. The opportunity was created on May 20, 2020, with an original application closing date of July 15, 2020.

Overall, the Region 9 RCPGP opportunity is aimed at improving regional readiness for the most severe, high-impact incidents by investing in planning and coordination that make housing strategies and logistics and supply chain operations more resilient. It is fundamentally about improving how neighboring jurisdictions collaborate so that when a catastrophic event strains or breaks normal systems, the region can adapt quickly, coordinate resources effectively, and support affected communities through response and recovery.

• 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 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 9" 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 20, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 15, 2020. (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 $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments.

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