Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 10 | DHS 21 GPD 111 10 01

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) for Region 10 is a discretionary FEMA grant opportunity under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security designed to strengthen how governments in a region plan for, coordinate around, and manage truly large-scale disasters. The program is intended to help close known preparedness and response capability gaps, promote innovative regional approaches to complex catastrophic-risk problems, and build on work that regions may already be doing to improve readiness for high-impact incidents. In practical terms, the grant emphasizes working across jurisdictional boundaries so that states, counties, and cities can align plans, procedures, and partnerships rather than relying on isolated, single-jurisdiction efforts.

The core goal of the RCPGP is to build regional capacity to handle catastrophic incidents by improving and expanding collaboration for catastrophic incident preparedness. The opportunity uses the National Response Framework (4th edition, 2019) definition of a catastrophic incident: any natural or human-caused event, including terrorism, that produces extraordinary levels of casualties, damage, or disruption that severely affect people and critical systems. These events can overwhelm routine capabilities and may significantly impact infrastructure, the environment, the economy, public confidence, and government functions. Because catastrophes do not respect local boundaries and often demand resources and decision-making that span multiple agencies and levels of government, the program highlights the need for a cohesive regional approach that supports prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery planning as an integrated whole.

This funding opportunity is listed under DHS/FEMA with the program number DHS 21 GPD 111 10 01 and the CFDA (now commonly referred to as Assistance Listing) number 97.111, categorized under Disaster Prevention and Relief. Eligible applicants are governmental entities, specifically state governments, county governments, and city or township governments. As a discretionary grant, awards are made competitively based on the program priorities and the quality of proposed activities, with an emphasis on efforts that measurably improve catastrophic preparedness through regional coordination and scalable solutions.

Key dates and award information are clearly defined in the notice. The opportunity was created on May 20, 2021, and had an original application closing date of July 16, 2021. The award ceiling is $1,200,000 per award, and FEMA anticipated making about 20 awards. Taken together, these parameters suggest the program was structured to support a set of targeted regional projects substantial enough to drive meaningful planning, coordination, and capability improvements, while still being distributed across multiple recipients to broaden impact.

Overall, the FY 2021 RCPGP - Region 10 opportunity is focused less on routine emergency management and more on the hard problem of catastrophic-scale readiness: aligning multiple jurisdictions and partners around shared assumptions, interoperable plans, and coordinated strategies that can hold up under extreme conditions. The intent is to push regions toward innovative, cooperative solutions that strengthen preparedness before a catastrophe happens, improving the region's ability to protect lives, sustain critical functions, and recover more effectively when extraordinary incidents occur.

• 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) 2021 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) - Region 10" 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 May 20, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 16, 2021. (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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