Pre-Disaster Mitigation FY 2016 Subapplication Status

This page provides the status of the Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) planning and project subapplications that were submitted to FEMA for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 application cycle.

FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grant programs provide funding to protect life and property from future natural disasters. The PDM grant program is designed to implement a sustained pre-disaster natural hazard mitigation program to reduce overall risk to the population and structures from future hazard events, while also reducing reliance on Federal funding in future disasters.

For FY 2016, $100 million was appropriated for PDM. FEMA made available $90 million for grants. In February 2016, FEMA announced the application period from March 15-June 15, 2016 in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) posted on www.grants.gov.

The agency’s priorities for the FY 2016 PDM program are:

FY2016 Subapplication Status Chart

1. The statutory set aside for states, territories and the District of Columbia up to $575,000;
2. Tribal set aside up to $575,000 per tribe for a total of $10 million;
3. Mitigation planning from applicants withoutHazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) planning funds available;
4. Projects from applicants without HMGP regular project funds available in the following order:
   1. Climate Resilient Mitigation Activities (CRMA) including Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR), Floodplain and Stream Restoration (FSR), and Flood Diversion and Storage (FDS); and pre- or post-wildfire mitigation activities or any mitigation action that utilizes green infrastructure approaches
   2. Non-flood hazard mitigation projects (e.g., seismic, wildfire, landslide and wind) and non-acquisition/elevation/mitigation reconstruction flood mitigation activities (e.g., stormwater management and flood control measures)
   3. Acquisition, elevation and mitigation reconstruction projects
   4. Generators for critical facilities
5. Planning from applicants with HMGP planning funds available
6. Projects from applicants with HMGP regular project funds available in the following order:
   1. CRMA and pre- or post-wildfire mitigation activities or any mitigation action that utilizes green infrastructure approaches
   2. Non-flood hazard mitigation projects and non-acquisition/elevation/mitigation reconstruction flood mitigation activities
   3. Acquisition, elevation and mitigation reconstruction projects
   4. Generators for critical facilities

For the competitive subapplications in priority categories 3 through 6 above, FEMA further prioritized subapplications as follows:

1. Small, impoverished community status;
2. FEMA-validated residential or commercial Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule (BCEGS) rating, as appropriate to the activity type, from a grade of 1 to 10; and
3. FEMA-validated Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) for projects.

Applicants were limited to a maximum of 19 subapplications, including no more than eight for mitigation projects and one for management costs up to 10% of the total of their subapplications. Applicants were required to rank their subapplicants in priority order with the highest ranked subapplication not to exceed $575,000 federal share in order to be eligible for the state and tribal set asides (priorities 1 and 2).

FEMA received 486 subapplications from 79 applicants (25 of which were federally-recognized Indian Tribal Governments) totaling $240 million: 219 planning, 216 projects, and 51 applicant management costs. FEMA has completed its eligibility review to ensure compliance with HMA Guidance and has made selections based on the agency’s priorities and available funding. FEMA has identified for further review 291 PDM subapplications from 72 applicants (22 of which are Indian Tribal Governments): 209 planning, 82 projects and associated applicant management costs totaling $90 million.

FEMA selected (identified for further review) all eligible subapplications in priorities 1 through 5. Eligible subapplications in priority 6 were ranked in order by project type; small, impoverished community status; BCEGS rating; and BCR for selection. FEMA is unable to fund (not selected) the remaining eligible subapplications in priority 6.

The below table lists the submitted planning and project subapplications and the status of each alphabetically by applicant.

Learn about the definition of each status description:

• Identified for Further Review
• Not Selected
• Did Not Meet HMA Requirements