Fiscal Year 2024 Fall Rehabilitation of High Hazard Potential Dams (HHPD)

Background
FEMA’s National Dam Safety Program (NDSP) is committed to protecting lives and property from the risks associated with dams. The Rehabilitation of High Hazard Potential Dams (HHPD) Grant Program makes available federal funds to eligible states for pass through to non-Federal governmental organizations or nonprofit organizations for the rehabilitation of eligible high hazard potential dams that fail to meet minimum state dam safety standards and pose unacceptable risk to life and property.

Grant Details
The Fiscal Year 2024 Fall HHPD grant is available to support two categories of funding: (1) Project Scoping, Engineering and Design and (2) Construction Projects. The HHPD grant program incentivizes eligible states to provide financial assistance for repair, removal, or rehabilitation of eligible high hazard potential dams, incorporate risk-informed analysis and decision making into their dam safety practice and HHPD rehabilitation investments, incorporate risk-analysis results and information and consider all dam risk in state, local, tribal, and territorial mitigation planning, promote community preparedness by requiring recipients to develop and implement floodplain management plans that address potential measures, practices, and policies to reduce loss of life, injuries, damage to property and facilities, public expenditures, and other adverse effects of flooding. The grant also aims to reduce costs associated with dam rehabilitation through the deployment of innovative solutions and technologies.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include states with a state dam safety program authorized by state legislation. Subrecipients must act in accordance with the state dam safety program, participate in the National Flood Insurance Program, have an approved hazard mitigation plan that includes all dam risks, commit to provide operation and maintenance of the project for the expected life of the dam following completion of rehabilitation, carry out activities relating to the public in the area around the dam in accordance with the hazard mitigation plan.

Period of Performance
The Period of Performance (POP) is 36 months starting on the date of the Recipient’s federal award. Recipients may submit a request for an extension to the period of performance if needed.

Grant Value
$185,120,000.00