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The 2011 Fire Prevention & Safety (FP&S) Grants Application period is now open.

Application Update:
On Tuesday, April 17th, the application in the E-Grants system was successfully updated to include a required question about Financial Need within the Applicant Information section of the application. This update did not affect any parts of the application that you may have completed thus far. At this time we ask that you log back into the E-Grant system and look to the section Applicant Information, where you will find the following question:

"Please describe your organization's need for Federal financial assistance."

Per the Program Guidance, your response to this question will assist the Technical Evaluation Panel in assessing the following evaluation criterion:

Financial Need (10%): Applicants should provide details on the need for financial assistance to carry out the proposed project(s). Included in the description might be other unsuccessful attempts to acquire financial assistance or specific examples of the applicant's operational budget.

• If you have not yet started your FP&S application: Please start your application as soon as possible! Information about eligible projects and items that can be requested is in the FY2011 Program Guidance.
• If you have started your FP&S application: *First, be sure that you have updated your web browser (see instructions below.)* ONCE that is done, go to the "Applicant Information" section of the application and find the question, "Please describe your organization's need for federal financial assistance." Enter your answer in the textbox provided. Be sure to SAVE your application data.
• If you have submitted your FP&S application already: Don't worry—it will be released back to you in the e-Grant Application System. You will need to log back into the E-Grant system. You will see that your FY2011 FPS Application is available for updating. Go into the "Update Application" section. Go to the "Applicant Information" section, which is the third section of the application, and find the question, "Please describe your organization's need for federal financial assistance." Enter your answer in the textbox provided and SAVE your application data. Once you are sure all questions of the application are completed you will then need to resubmit your application no later than 5:00 p.m. EDT, May 04, 2012.

*YOU MUST UPDATE YOUR WEB BROWSER TO ENSURE  ACCESS TO THE UPDATED GRANT APPLICATION*

To ensure that you are working in the most recent version of the Fire Prevention and Safety Grant application, you must update your web browser's settings. Follow the instructions below to update the settings:

1. Click on "Tools" and then click on "Internet Options."
2. On the "General" tab, find "Browsing History" and click the "Settings" button."
3. Under "Check for newer versions of stored pages,” be sure to select the button “Every time I visit the page," and click OK.  You will return to the “General” tab screen.
4. Then click the "Delete" button under “Browsing History.”  Check the options to delete your Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, and Form Data.  Click “Delete.”  You will return to the “General” tab screen.
5. Click OK again to exit the “Tools” window.
6. Close your web browser and any other open browsers.  Then open a new web browsing screen.

This will ensure that you access the updated version of the FY 2011 FPS Application

We regret any inconvenience this may have caused to you and we thank you for your patience. Questions related to this update should be directed to our Help Desk at 1-866-274-0960 between the hours of 8:00am – 4:30pm EDT, Monday-Friday. You may also email your questions to firegrants@dhs.gov.

It has come to our attention that when the FY2011 Fire Prevention and Safety Application was deployed into the E-Grants system, a question about Financial Need
was not visible to applicants. As this question is one of the evaluation criteria that will be used by the Technical Evaluation Panel to rate your application, it is important
that this question be made available to all applicants. Therefore, on Tuesday, April 17th, the application in the E-Grants system will be updated to include this question.
This will not affect any parts of the application that you have completed thus far. You may continue to work on your application at this time, however, we wanted to make
you aware that this additional question will be included and will be required prior to your final submission. The question that will be added is as follows:

"Please describe your organization's need for Federal financial assistance."

This question will be added on the "Applicant Information" page of the application. Per the Program Guidance, your response to this question will assist the Technical Evaluation Panel in assessing the following evaluation criterion:

Financial Need (10%): Applicants should provide details on the need for financial assistance to carry out the proposed project(s). Included in the description might be other unsuccessful attempts to acquire financial assistance or specific examples of the applicant's operational budget.

Please note, you do not need to do anything at this time to ensure the question will be added to your application, it will be added to all applications at the same time. We encourage you to wait until this question is added to the application (Tuesday, April 17th) so you may answer it prior to submitting your application.

If you have already submitted your application, it will be released back to you in the E-Grant system on Tuesday, April 17 after the update occurs. Please make the appropriate updates and resubmit your application as soon as possible, but no later than April 27, 2012 at 5:00pm EDT.

At this time, the FY2011 Fire Prevention and Safety Application is scheduled to close at 5:00pm EDT on Friday, April 27, 2012.  Should the application period be extended, you will be contacted in a separate email.

Further and more detailed communications will be made to contacts listed within all applications. Questions related to this update should be directed to our Help Desk at 1-866-274-0960 between the hours of 8:00am – 4:30pm EDT, Monday-Friday. You may also email your questions to firegrants@dhs.gov.

AUTHORITY: The authority for the Assistance to Fire Fighters Grant Program is derived from 15 U.S.C. § 2229 et seq., as amended, and 15 U.S.C. § 2201 et seq.

PRINCIPAL PURPOSE(S): This information is being collected for the primary purpose of determining eligibility and administration of DHS/FEMA's Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.

ROUTINE USE(S): The information on this form may be disclosed as generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. § 552a(b) of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended. This includes using this information as necessary and authorized by the routine uses published in DHS/FEMA – 004 Grants Management Information Files System of Records (August 7, 2009, 74 FR 39705) and upon written request, by agreement, or as required by law.

DISCLOSURE: The disclosure of information on this form is voluntary; however, failure to provide the information requested may delay or prevent the organization from receiving grant funding.