Regional Fiscal Year 2024 Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Program

The overarching goal of the Risk MAP Program is to enhance flood-resilient communities, including underserved communities. The CTP Program supports this goal by establishing, maintaining, and improving collaborative working relationships; ensuring timely and accurate delivery of data to communities to support flood risk reduction and mitigation; and program ownership. Additionally, CTP supports Risk MAP’s goal of ensuring the long-term flood resiliency of communities, including underserved communities.

The objectives of the CTP program are primarily to support the mission and objectives of the NFIP’s Flood Hazard Mapping Program through FEMA’s flood hazard identification and risk assessment programs, including the Risk MAP program.

Objectives include:

• Ensure extensive stakeholder engagement throughout the lifecycle of a project so that stakeholders have access to flood hazard data and risk information to validate and use for community resiliency. Stakeholders in CTP projects typically include community and tribal leaders; business and property owners; regional, tribal, and state partners; and local elected officials.

• Enhance communities’ ability to make informed decisions on development using updated information by ensuring it is delivered to communities in a timely manner and on budget.

• Improve acceptance and use of the flood hazard data and risk information, through delivery of high-quality products to communities.

• Increase understanding of flood hazard and risk elements, leading to quality partnerships between CTPs and their communities, and between FEMA and CTPs, by providing training and engagement throughout the project.

Applicants can submit applications for this funding opportunity through FEMA Grants Outcomes (GO). Access the system at https://go.fema.gov/

Government

• City or township governments
• Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
• Special district governments
• County governments

Nonprofit

• Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)

Education

• Private institutions of higher education
• Public and state institutions of higher education