Hazard Mitigation Revolving Loan Funds/Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation (STORM) Act (Robert T Stafford Act, Sec 205)
BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
GrantsFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of Homeland SecurityAgency
$500,000,000.00Funding Amount
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
Available for the next 5 fiscal years in tranches of $100 million per fiscal year
Program Description
Capitalization grants to State and eligible Tribal governments for the establishment of revolving loan funds to provide hazard mitigation assistance to local governments.
Hazardous Fuels (Mechanical Thinning And Timber Harvesting; Precommercial Thinning In Young Growth)
BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal SpendingFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency
$400,000,000.00Funding Amount
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
Available until expended
Program Description
The Hazardous Fuels program prioritizes treating areas with high potential for damaging wildfires within the wildland-urban interface using a scenario planning tool to identify areas where there is high and very high wildfire hazard potential adjacent to communities. Working with community partners across boundaries allows the agency to leverage resources and work efficiently to reduce wildfire risk while creating resilient landscapes and encouraging fire-adapted communities.
Eligible Uses
Projects that mitigate wildfire risk on hazardous fuels in high priority and high-risk areas around the Nation.
Program Description
The Hazardous Fuels program prioritizes treating areas with high potential for damaging wildfires within the wildland-urban interface using a scenario planning tool to identify areas where there is high and very high wildfire hazard potential adjacent to communities. Working with community partners across boundaries allows the agency to leverage resources and work efficiently to reduce wildfire risk while creating resilient landscapes and encouraging fire-adapted communities.
Eligible Uses
Projects that mitigate wildfire risk on hazardous fuels in high priority and high-risk areas around the Nation.
Hazardous Materials and Emergency Preparedness Grants
BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
GrantFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of TransportationAgency
$234,125,000.00Funding Amount
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
Available until expended
Program Description
The Hazardous Materials and Emergency Preparedness Grants Programs consist of the following grants: Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness; Assistance for Local Emergency Response Training; Hazardous Materials Instructor Training; and Supplemental Public Sector Training. Programs also include the publication of the Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Guidebook and other outreach and training.
Eligible Uses
To develop, improve, and carry out emergency plans including ascertaining flow patterns of hazardous material; to decide on the need for regional hazardous material emergency response teams; to train public-sector employees to respond to accidents and incidents involving hazardous material; and to train hazardous materials safety employees to become instructors to extend the reach of hazardous materials training.
Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership Program
BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Direct Federal spending.Funding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of AgricultureAgency
$180,000,000.00Funding Amount
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
Available until expended
Program Description
Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service are working together to improve the health of forests where public forests and grasslands connect to privately owned lands. Through the Joint Chiefs' Landscape Restoration Partnership, the two Department of Agriculture agencies are restoring landscapes, reducing wildfire threats to communities and landowners, protecting water quality, and enhancing wildlife habitat.
Eligible Uses
Projects that mitigate wildfire risk, improve water quality, and restore healthy forest ecosystems on public and private lands.
Multi-Benefit Projects To Improve Watershed Health
BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Financial AssistanceFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$100,000,000.00Funding Amount
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
Available until expended
Program Description
Implementation of this new authority for funding of Multi-benefit Habitat projects to improve watershed health is currently under development. This funding will be allocated to projects that support habitat restoration and watershed health in basins impacted by a Reclamation project.
Eligible Uses
Habitat restoration, and improvement of watershed health in basins impacted by a Reclamation project
National Geological And Geophysical Data Preservation Program
BIA-NTBG-2022-OIEDOpportunity Number
Posted Date
Grant, Cooperative Agreement, Direct Federal SpendingFunding Mechanism
ResilienceCategory
Department of the InteriorAgency
$23,668,000.00Funding Amount
Funding Amount Notes
Period of Availability
Each fiscal year appropriated is available for obligation for 3 years. Funding will be received over a period of four years, with $8.668 million in fiscal year 2022 and $5 million in fiscal year 2023 through fiscal year 2025.
Program Description
Implementation provides competitive grants to State Geological Surveys and funds projects executed by U.S. Geological Survey and other Department of the Interior bureaus to preserve, modernize, and make publicly available geological and geophysical data and assets.
Eligible Uses
Preservation, documentation, and archiving of geological and geophysical data, maps, logs, samples, and other relevant materials; development and maintenance of a national catalog, creation and maintenance of physical and digital infrastructure in support of archival materials and data, technical and financial assistance related to archival material, and preservation of samples to track geochemical signatures from critical mineral ore bodies.
Period of Availability
2 years for each annual tranche
Program Description
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Oceans and Coastal Security Fund supports the National Coastal Resilience Fund which restores, increases and strengthens natural infrastructure to protect coastal communities while also enhancing habitats for fish and wildlife. Established in 2018, the National Coastal Resilience Fund invests in conservation projects that restore or expand natural features such as coastal marshes and wetlands, dune and beach systems, oyster and coral reefs, forests, coastal rivers and floodplains, and barrier islands that minimize the impacts of storms and other naturally occurring events on nearby communities.
Eligible Uses
Established in 2018, the National Coastal Resilience Fund invests in conservation projects that restore or expand natural features such as coastal marshes and wetlands, dune and beach systems, oyster and coral reefs, forests, coastal rivers and floodplains, and barrier islands that minimize the impacts of storms and other naturally occurring events on nearby communities. Geographically, the National Coastal Resilience Fund funds will focus on coastal areas of U.S. coastal States, including the Great Lakes States, U.S. territories, and coastal Tribal lands. The additional funding will enable the National Coastal Resilience Fund to provide increased support for communities most vulnerable to climate impacts, including those who have been historically disadvantaged.
Program Description
This program produces the technologies needed to secure information and software that resides on the networks and systems that make up the Internet. It provides analytic tools for the law enforcement community to investigate crimes committed in cyberspace.
Eligible Uses
Research supporting security testing capabilities related to telecommunications equipment.
Period of Availability
2 years for each annual tranche
Program Description
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support and enhance various critical observing systems in the ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes. Many of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's observing systems have been operating for decades and require investment to maintain reliability as well as expand geographic coverage.
Eligible Uses
This funding will support a number of projects including refurbishments and technology upgrades of observing infrastructure in the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing Systems Regional Associations, support for the National Water Level Observation Network, design engineering for Airborne Phased Array Radar, and ship time for deployment and system verification of the new capitalized Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean moorings.
Program Description
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support and enhance two critical ocean observing systems.
Eligible Uses
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will modernize two critical ocean observing systems: The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array in the equatorial Pacific and the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami network.
