Tallahatchie County

Tallahatchie County Chancery Division, doing business as Marvin Doss, is a U.S. local government entity (Mississippi county government) that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants, not a federal contractor. The county receives cooperative agreements and disaster-assistance grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), channeled through the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, to fund watershed protection, infrastructure stabilization, and emergency recovery projects.

The county's federal grant footprint centers on the Emergency Watershed Protection Program (EWPP, CFDA 10.923) under NRCS. Since 2021, Tallahatchie County has received 62 NRCS cooperative-agreement grants for road and streambank stabilization, erosion control, debris removal, and slope protection across multiple county roads and sites, including work along Shook Road, Pressgrove Road, River Road, Smith Road, Friendship Road, and Teasdale Road. A representative sample includes a $363,660 cooperative agreement awarded February 10, 2026, under the EWPP for road and bank stabilization along River Road (ultimate completion July 19, 2026); a $180,862.50 cooperative agreement awarded July 31, 2024, for stabilization along Smith and Friendship Roads (completion February 1, 2025); and multiple Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)-funded stabilization projects awarded in 2022 and 2023. The county also receives sub-awards as a sub-recipient through the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency for disaster-assistance grants and hazard-mitigation funding; recent examples include a $150,414.42 sub-award on June 25, 2024, and additional disaster-grant awards in 2023, 2022, and earlier years.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to NRCS: 62 of 77 total awards, representing the dominant federal funding relationship. FEMA accounts for 7 awards (all routed as sub-grants through the state emergency-management agency), and the Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service and related offices account for 4 and 3 awards respectively. Over the past five years, award volume peaked in 2022 with 31 awards (including multiple IIJA-funded stabilization projects), declined to 7 in 2023 and 6 in 2024, and stands at 3 recent awards as of February 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all 77 awards total $13.5 million. Three awards face ultimate-completion dates within the next twenty-four months and represent potential recompete or renewal activity. The county operates entirely as a prime grant recipient (91% of awards); it does not hold federal contracts, IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs, and does not pursue set-aside categories. Its role is limited to implementing NRCS and FEMA-funded emergency and infrastructure projects within Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.