Mitigation Grant Programs Update

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Mitigation Grant ProgramsUpdate
Directors conference June 25, 2009
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Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) Flood Mitigation
Assistance (FMA) Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC)
Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL)
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Allocations for HMGP

• FEMA DR-1786-LA Hurricane Gustav
  126,513,000.00
• FEMA DR-1792-LA Hurricane Ike 33,339,000.00
• Ike funding will be dedicated to State Agencies.
• June 30 LOI submittal.
• July 1 Allocations redistributed for LOIs not
  received by deadline.
• August 31 Application submission to State.

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Eligible HMGP Project Types Include

• Acquisition or Elevation
• Retrofitting (seismic, wind, and flood)
• Vegetative management and soil stabilization
• Infrastructure protection
• Stormwater Management
• Minor structural flood control
• Hardening utilities
• Writing/updating Parish and other local Hazard
  Mitigation Plans

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Most Impacted Parishes by highest number of
residences with major and severe damage as
determined by FEMAs IA Program

• Terrebonne
• Cameron
• E. Baton Rouge
• Tangipahoa
• Calcasieu
• Lafourche
• Jefferson
• St. Mary
• Ascension Assumption
• Rapides
• Iberville
• Iberia
• Livingston

• St. Landry
• Vermilion
• Assumption
• Pointe Coupee
• Orleans
• St. James
• St. Martin
• St. John the Baptist
• Franklin
• Ouachita
• St. Tammany
• West Baton Rouge
• Lafayette

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Continued Most Impacted Parishes by highest
number of residences with major and severe damage
as determined by FEMAs IA Program

• Avoyelles
• Acadia
• St. Charles
• Evangeline
• East Feliciana
• St. Helena
• Catahoula
• East Carroll
• West Feliciana
• Concordia
• Plaquemines
• Richland
• Grant
• Allen

• West Carroll
• Beauregard
• Jefferson Davis
• Morehouse
• St. Bernard
• Washington
• La Salle
• Tensas
• Vernon
• Madison
• Winn
• Sabine
• Union

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• Application Period FY10
• PDM, FMA, RFC, SRL
• National Application Period
• June 1, 2009 December 4, 2009
• Must be submitted to FEMA by 3 PM EST
• State will submit ALL FY 2010 applications by
  December 1
• Applications must be submitted to GOHSEP in
  eGrants by September 30, 2009
• Please email Kimberly Rodrigue for eGrants
  access.

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Management Costs (PDM,FMA,RFC SRL)

• Subapplicants may include a maximum of 5 of the
  total funds requested to support the activity.
• Compensation of employees for the time devoted
  specifically to the performance of the award
• Cost of materials used specifically for the
  purpose of the award
• Travel expenses incurred specifically to carry
  out the award

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Eligible PDM Mitigation Project Activities
funding is on a 75/25 split

• Structure Elevation
• Property Acquisition
• Demolition
• Relocation
• Stormwater Management Projects
• Protective Measures for Utilities
• Structural and Non-structural retrofitting of
  existing buildings
• Minor localized flood reduction projects
• All Hazards Mitigation Plans
• Safe Rooms
• Infrastructure Retrofit

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Eligible FMA Mitigation Project Activities
funding is on a 75/25 split

• Structure Elevation
• Property Acquisition
• Demolition
• Relocation
• Minor localized flood reduction projects
• Dry Floodproofing of Historical Residential
  Structures
• Dry Floodproofing of Non - Residential Structures

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• Repetitive Flood Claims (RFC)
• NFIP insured structures that have one or more
  flood claim payments
• Applicants must demonstrate that the proposed
  activities cannot be funded under the FMA program
  due to lack of capacity, including inability to
  manage the subgrant or lack of 25 match.
• A local Hazard Mitigation Plan is not required

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Eligible RFC Mitigation Project Activities
funding is on a 100 Federal

• Structure Elevation
• Property Acquisition
• Demolition
• Relocation
• Minor localized flood reduction projects
• Dry Floodproofing of Historical Residential
  Structures
• Dry Floodproofing of Non - Residential Structures

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• Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL)
• Residential properties with at least four NFIP
  claim payments over 5,000 each (building and
  contents), and the cumulative amount of such
  claims payments exceeds 20,000 or
• For which at least two separate NFIP claim
  payments (building only) have been made, with the
  cumulative amount of the building portion of such
  claims exceeding the value of the property

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Eligible SRL Mitigation Project Activities
funding is on a 90/10 split

• Structure Elevation
• Property Acquisition
• Demolition
• Relocation
• Minor localized flood reduction projects
• Mitigation Reconstruction
• Dry Floodproofing of Historical Residential
  Structures

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SRL Properties

• FEMA maintains a database of all validated SRL
  properties
• 8000 Nationwide properties
• 2950 Louisiana properties

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SRL FY09 Re-opening

• Will remain open until all 150 Million is
  allocated
• Applications must be submitted to GOHSEP in
  eGrants by August 21, 2009
• This date represents the first round of
  application deadlines for SRL FY 09

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Katrina/Rita HMGP Update