Get Funds to Protect Your Community from Floods

Posted: January 7, 2009

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Summary

This program offers grants to states to provide crucial technical assistance to communities enrolled in the National Flood Insurance Program. The funding aims to enhance flood loss reduction efforts and build expertise in floodplain management.

Eligibility

Floodplain Management Community Assistance State Support Disaster Preparedness

Full Description

The purpose of the Community Assistance Program – State Support Services Element (CAP-SSSE) is to provide, through a State grant mechanism, a means to ensure that communities participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are achieving the flood loss reduction objectives of the NFIP. CAP-SSSE is intended to accomplish this by funding States to provide technical assistance to NFIP communities and to evaluate community performance in implementing NFIP floodplain management activities with the goal of building community and State floodplain management expertise and capability.