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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Available
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How the
Award Limit
Is Calculated

Timeframes
for Lock-In
of HMGP
Ceiling

Section 4: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Availability

The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program may provide a State with not more than 15
percent of the total estimated Federal grant assistance (excluding any associated
administrative costs) provided under Sections 403,406,407,408,410,411,416, and
701 of the Stafford Act.

The total of Section 404 grants for project and management grants
may not exceed the mitigation ceiling, but the subgrantee and grantee
administrative costs (sliding scales from 44 CFR 206.439) do not count
against the ceiling. 1

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44 CFR
206.439

These Federal grants may be used to fund up to 75 percent of an approved mitigation
measure. States or local applicants provide non-Federal funds to pay for the
remaining 25 percent of eligible project costs.

TIP: Cost-sharing is discussed fully in Section 13.

The ceiling is the guaranteed level of hazard mitigation project and management cost
funding in a particular disaster. The FEMA regional Mitigation Division will coordinate
the hazard mitigation estimated ceiling, lock-in ceiling, and final lock-in ceiling with the
State.

FEMA's quarterly Disaster Finance Status Report is the mechanism for calculating the
mitigation ceiling. It contains the Regional Director's projections for all of a region's
declarations, including the projections data for other disaster programs. The Region
may use the most recent or closest quarterly status report. The Disaster Finance
Status Report is pre-encoded to perform these three steps:

1. Take the total Federal share of program costs for all relevant Stafford Act
programs;

2. Remove any administrative costs; and

3. Multiply this total by 15 percent to automatically calculate the mitigation ceiling.

The following timeframe indicates the schedule for establishing the HMGP estimated
ceiling and lock-in ceiling.

. 3 Months: The HMGP estimated ceiling will be established initially within 90 days
of the disaster declaration. It will be maintained until the first ceiling review at 6
months.

. 6 Months: The estimate will be reevaluated based upon the ceiling calculated by
the Disaster Finance Status Report The lock-in ceiling will reflect any increase or
decrease in the resulting estimate. Only at the time of this initial HMGP ceiling
review shall a decrease in available funds be incorporated into the lock-in.
Subsequent reviews will result in a change to the ceiling only when the review
reflects an increase. This first lock-in represents the minimum amount of HMGP
funds available for a given disaster.

1 For diaaaters declared prior to 1011/97 the management cos1s do not count against the HMGP ceiling.

Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Desk. Reference-Draft

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