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

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Key Managing
State
Activities

Applicant!
Subgrantee
Responsibili-
ties

Section 3: After a Disaster Occurs

Key responsibilities of the managing State include:

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

. Reviewing and selecting grant proposals from eligible applicants;

. Ensuring eligibility of submitted applications;

. Conducting benefit-cost analyses to determine whether the project meets the
criteria listed in 44 CFR 206.434(b)(5);

. Developing documentation to comply with the environmental requirements for
FEMA approval;

. Dispersing funds to applicants after the State has determined a project meets
program eligibility requirements, including cost-effectiveness, per FEMA guidance
and FEMA has approved the required environmental documentation;

. Administering the HMGP consistent with program law, regulations, and policy
guidance;

. Providing quarterly performance and financial reports to FEMA; and

. Approving all funding to applicants within 24 months of the
disaster declaration or returning uncommitted funds to the general
fund,

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A chart of State responsibilities is provided in Job Aid 3-2,

Job Aid 3-3 illustrates the required State activities, timeframes,
and authorizing document(s).

Job Aid 3.2
and 3-3

Applicants are responsible for submitting complete, accurate project applications to the
State. An applicant becomes a subgrantee if the proposed measure is selected as an
applDved project. The subglantee, then, is responsible for:

. Managing the implementation of the apploved project;

. Complying with HMGP requirements, grants management
procedures in 44 CFR Part 13, the grant agreement, and
applicable Federal, State, and local laws and standards;

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44 CFR Part 13
44 CR 13.42

. Accounting for the appropriate use of grant funds to the grantee
State; and

. Maintaining records on the program and projects as required by
44 CFR 13.42.

Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Desk Reference-Draft

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