GOHSEP Elected_Officials_Manual_2015

GOHSEP
Louisiana Elected Officials
Emergency Management Manual
Prepare + Prevent + Respond + Recover + mitigate
6.3 FEMA Post-Disaster Hazard Mitigation
Grant Program (HMGP)
The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
(HMGP) provides grants to State and local
governments to implement long-term hazard
mitigation measures after a major disaster
declaration. The purpose of the HMGP is to
reduce the loss of life and property due to
natural disasters and to enable mitigation
measures to be implemented during
the immediate recovery from a disaster.
Because HMGP is authorized under Section
404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief
and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act),
it is sometimes referred to as 404 Mitigation.
Hazard mitigation grants
help communities build
back safer + stronger after
disasters . . .
Better prepared to
withstand the impacts of
future disasters.
HMGP funding is allocated using a sliding
scale formula based on the percentage of
funds spent on FEMA Public Assistance (PA)
and Individual Assistance (IA) programs for
each Presidentially declared disaster. For
States with a FEMA-approved State Hazard
Mitigation Plan (SHMP), the formula provides
15 percent of the first $2 billion of estimated
aggregate amounts of disaster assistance;
10 percent for the next portion of amounts
between $2 billion and $10 billion; and 7.5
percent for the next portion of amounts
between $10 billion and $35.333 billion.
HMGP Funding
formula
FEMA pays up to 75 percent of the eligible
hazard mitigation project costs. Either the
State or Applicant covers the remaining
25 percent, though it need not be in cash.
Eligible in-kind services and materials can
be used.
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Revised: December 21, 2014