Mitigation Assistance

The Federal Emergency Management Agency State and Local Programs and Support administers the Mitigation Assistance program (CFDA 83.535), which has not disbursed active grant funding since June 2003—over twenty years ago. This program is effectively dormant and not recommended for pursuit at this time.

The program historically funded seismic policy coordination and earthquake hazard mitigation activities through cooperative agreements with state policy councils and research institutions. Recent awards supported the Western States Seismic Policy Council and earthquake engineering research partnerships, including a $470 thousand cooperative agreement with the Western Seismic States Policy Council (awarded January 2003) and a $95 thousand award to support cooperative earthquake hazard research with State University of New York at Buffalo (January 2003).

The program operated exclusively through Cooperative Agreements; all six awards in the portfolio were structured as cooperative agreements. FEMA State and Local Programs and Support was the sole funding agency across the entire portfolio. Between 2000 and 2003, the program disbursed six awards totaling $925 thousand in combined federal obligations, with an average award magnitude of approximately $154 thousand. Award activity peaked in 2003 with four disbursements before ceasing entirely.

No recent grant opportunities are currently open under this listing. The last recorded award was issued on June 1, 2003, with a completion date of May 31, 2004. No grant opportunities have been posted recently, and the program shows no indication of active solicitation or new awards in the past two decades. Organizations considering this program should verify current status with FEMA before allocating resources to application development.