Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 7 | DHS 22 GPD 111 07 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 7 is a discretionary FEMA grant opportunity under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen how regions prepare for, respond to, and recover from truly large-scale disasters. Funded through the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103), the program focuses on closing known preparedness and capability gaps, supporting creative and regionally coordinated solutions, and building on existing preparedness work already underway across participating jurisdictions. The central idea is that catastrophic events overwhelm single jurisdictions, so planning, coordination, and shared capabilities need to be built and maintained at a regional level rather than in isolation.

This program is specifically aimed at improving regional capacity to manage "catastrophic incidents," a term defined in the National Response Framework (4th edition or any newer version) as a natural or human-caused event, including terrorism, that leads to extraordinary mass casualties, severe damage, or major disruption that significantly impacts people, infrastructure, the environment, the economy, national morale, or government functions. Because incidents of that scale strain resources and coordination systems, the grant emphasizes building a cohesive regional approach across the full emergency management cycle: prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. In practical terms, the program supports efforts that expand collaboration among governments and partners so plans, roles, and resources are aligned before a crisis occurs.

The FY 2022 RCPGP is also intentionally aligned with FEMA's 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, reflecting FEMA's broader direction for emergency management nationwide. The grant ties into three agency-wide goals: promoting and instilling equity as a foundation of emergency management, leading a whole-of-community approach to climate resilience, and promoting and sustaining a ready FEMA and a prepared nation. Consistent with those goals, the program's stated strategic priorities are equity, climate resilience, and readiness. Equity is highlighted as a foundation, with an explicit emphasis on supporting people in disadvantaged or underserved groups who may face higher risk from current hazards, including those amplified by climate change. The program frames this as ensuring fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals before, during, and after disasters, and it encourages applicants to integrate the needs of at-risk communities into catastrophic preparedness planning and collaboration.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed as "Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 7" with funding opportunity number DHS 22 GPD 111 07 01 and CFDA number 97.111 under the disaster prevention and relief category. The eligible applicants are governmental entities at multiple levels, including state governments, county governments, and city or township governments. FEMA is the administering agency (Department of Homeland Security - FEMA). The opportunity was posted on June 27, 2022, with an original application closing date of July 29, 2022. The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $1,200,000, and FEMA anticipated making about 20 awards under this announcement.

Overall, this Region 7 RCPGP opportunity is best understood as targeted funding to help government partners build and sustain regional systems for catastrophic preparedness, with particular attention to collaboration, closing capability gaps, and making sure preparedness efforts are equitable, climate-informed, and oriented toward real operational readiness for large-scale incidents.

• 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) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 7" 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 Jun 27, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 29, 2022. (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 $1,200,000.00 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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