FY17 Flood Mitigation Assistance

Agency: Department of Homeland Security - FEMA

97.029 -- Flood Mitigation Assistance

Archived opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026

Description

The Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Program makes available Federal funds to State, Local and Tribal Governments to reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings and structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). In FY17, the FMA Program will prioritize proposals that address community flood risk by setting aside $70 million for this purpose. FEMA will seek to fund two types of community flood mitigation activities: Advance Assistance for flood mitigation design and development of community flood mitigation projects and mitigation projects that address...

community flood risk for the purpose of reducing NFIP flood claim payments. The remaining funding, at least $90,000,000, will be used for FMA technical assistance, mitigation planning, and mitigation projects reducing risk to severe repetitive loss (SRL) and repetitive loss (RL) properties. Applicants must submit applications via the Mitigation eGrants system on the FEMA Grants Portal: https://portal.fema.gov. Applicants may submit a maximum of 1 advanced assistance and 1 community mitigation project sub-application.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Government

Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
State governments

Miscellaneous

Other

Additional information

District of Columbia; U.S. Territories. Local governments must apply through their state.

Grantor contact information

Description

Mitigation eGrants System Helpdesk Phone: 1-855-228-3362

Email

MTeGrants@fema.dhs.gov

Documents

File name	Description	Last updated
FY_2017_FMA_NOFO_Final.pdf	FY 2017 FMA NOFO	Jul 10, 2017 03:17 PM UTC

Link to additional information

Archived: December 14, 2017

Application process

This site is a work in progress. Go to www.grants.gov to apply, track application status, and subscribe to updates.

Award

$160,000,000

Program Funding

200

Expected awards

$--

Award Minimum

$--

Award Maximum

Funding opportunity number:

DHS-17-MT-029-000-99

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

Yes

Funding instrument type:

Grant

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

Category of Funding Activity:

Other

Category Explanation:

History

Version:

Posted date:

July 10, 2017

Archive date:

December 14, 2017