FLOOD04112

• County: Statewide
• Community: Nationwide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Desk Reference
• Date: 10/1/1999
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

Section 3: After a Disaster Occurs

Sufficient
Staff

Key State
Activities

Managing
States

Sufficient
Staff for
Managing
States

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. The Stale has staff qualified to:

. Update their mitigation plan with a post-disaster mitigation strategy;

. Provide applicants with technical assistance on sound mitigation techniques
and HMGP policy and procedures; and

. Understand the National Environmental Policy Act and related Federal
environmental requirements, and perform required analyses if necessary,

Once the program is underway, key State activities include:

. Soliciting program interest and helping potential applicants to develop complete
applications;

. Reviewing and selecting grant proposals from eligible applicants;
. Preparing and submitting applications to FEMA;

. Notifying applicants of FEMA decisions on submitted projects; and

. Submitting quarterly financial and progress reports to FEMA indicating the status
and completion date for each approved project

In an effort to streamline the HMGP and provide Stales more flexibility, FEMA is
examining the roles and responsibilities for HMGP administration. FEMA has
proposed a Managing Stale arrangement for those States that have the capability and
would like to assume a stronger management role in the HMGP,

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Under a Managing State arrangement, FEMA will accept the State's eligibility and
benefit-cost determinatiDns made in accordance with the terms in a Memorandum of
Understanding. This includes a list of eligible project types that the Stale and FEMA
negotiated prior to signing the Memorandum. Although States will be encouraged to
prepare environmental documentation for each project, a F EMA official must sign and
approve the documentation, as such authority cannot be delegated to a State in
accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act.

The Stale then submits a project summary sheet to FEMA for each project, FEMA's
review of project summary sheets, rather than the entire application packet, should
significantly expedite the project approval process.

The managing State has staff qualified to perform the tasks above, as well as:

. Conduct eligibility reviews;

. Conduct and review benefit-cost analyses using FEMA-approved methodology;
and

. Develop documentation to comply with environmental requirements for FEMA
approval.

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Hazard Mitigation Grant Prasram Desk Reference-Draft