Department of Homeland Security 

Office of Inspector General 

Compendium of Disaster Assistance Programs 


OIG-09-49 April 2009 
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COMPENDIUM OF DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 
 

 

Office of Inspector General 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Washington, DC 20528 

April 3, 2009 

Preface 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) was established by 

the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296) by amendment to the Inspector General 

Act of 1978. As part of the Inspector General community, our responsibility is to provide oversight 

for presidentially declared disasters. 

The DHS OIG, through the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency 

(CIGIE) has developed an inventory of federal programs that provide assistance to affected 

individuals, states, localities, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other public entities. It 

is based on a survey of other CIGIE members and a review of the General Services 

Administration, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance and the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency’s Disaster Assistance: A Guide to Recovery Programs (FEMA229/September 2005). 

This compendium has been developed through the best information available to our office, and has 

been discussed with the Inspector General community. We trust this compendium will serve as a 

tool for agencies to use in identifying programs that are available to provide assistance during a 

disaster. We express our appreciation to all who contributed to the preparation of this compendium. 

Richard L. Skinner 


Inspector General 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents/Abbreviations 


 Overview................................................................................................................................... 1 


Appendices 

Appendix A: Listing of Disaster Assistance Programs ........................................................ 6 


 Appendix B: Report Distribution ..........................................................................................50 


Abbreviations

 AFWS Automated Flood Warning System

 AIP Airport Improvement Program 

BPHC Bureau of Primary Health Care 

CAP-SSSE Community Assistance Program - State Support Services Element 

CCC Commodity Credit Corporation 

CFDA Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

CFR Code of Federal Regulation 

CIGIE Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency 

CNCS Corporation for National and Community Service 

DHAP Disaster Housing Assistance Program 

DHS Department of Homeland Security 

DIC Dependency Indemnity Compensation 

DOC Department of Commerce 

DOD Department of Defense 

DOI Department of Interior 

DOJ Department of Justice 

DOL Department of Labor 

DOT Department of Transportation 

ED Department of Education 

EDA Economic Development Administration 

EMPG Emergency Management Performance Grant 

EOC Emergency Operation Center 

EPA Environmental Protection Agency 

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigations 

FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency 

FHA Federal Housing Administration 

FISHTEC Cooperative Institute for Fisheries Molecular Biology 

FSA Farm Security Administration 
 

GSA General Services Administration 

HIP Housing Improvement Program 

HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus 

HHS Department of Health and Human Services 

HSGP Homeland Security Grant Program 

HUD Department of Housing and Urban Development 

IHS Indian Health Services 

JABG Juvenile Accountability Block Grant 

KDHAP Katrina Disaster Housing Assistance Program 

LIHEAP Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program 

LSC Legal Service Corporation 

MMRS Metropolitan Medical Response System 

NARA National Archives and Records Administration 

NCHIP National Criminal History Improvement Program 

NDMS National Disaster Medical System 

NFIF National Flood Insurance Fund 

NFIP National Flood Insurance Program 

NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Services 

NIMS National Incident Management System 

NRCS National Resources Conservation Services 

OIG Office of Inspector General 

PAL Police Athletic League 

PHA Public Housing Agencies 

RCPGP Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program 

SBA Small Business Administration 

SSA Social Security Administration 

TREAS Department of the Treasury 

UASI Urban Areas Security Initiative 

U.S.C. United States Code 

US&R Urban Search and Rescue 

USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture 

USPS United States Postal Service 

VA Veterans Administration 

WIA Workforce Investment Act 

WIPA Work Incentives Planning and Assistance 

WRP Wetland Reserve Program 
OIG
 

Department of Homeland Security 

Office of Inspector General 

Overview 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Inspector General 

(OIG), through the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and 

Efficiency (CIGIE) has developed an inventory of federal programs that 

provide assistance to individuals, states, localities, nonprofit organizations, 

and businesses impacted by a disaster. 

Federal agencies provide both financial and non-financial support in response 

to presidentially declared disasters. They administer assistance during 

presidentially declared disasters through disaster specific programs, regular 

ongoing programs that are applied during a disaster, and through mission 

assignments and interagency agreements from the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA) to other federal agencies. These programs 

provide assistance to individuals, states, localities, non-profit organizations, 

and businesses. Congress provides the funding for these programs through 

annual federal appropriations or through supplemental appropriations. 

When funds become available, they may flow directly from the federal 

government to disaster victims or businesses, or the federal government may 

issue the funds to the state, localities, or a nonprofit organization that 

distributes the funds to the disaster victims or businesses. 

This inventory was developed by surveying the federal Inspector General 

community as a means to identify all financial and non-financial assistance 

provided by each agency in support of a disaster. We also reviewed the 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) website1

 and FEMA’s 

Disaster Assistance: A Guide to Recovery Programs2 . This inventory does 

not include basic research provided by federal agencies, or the mission 

assignment activities that are more directly related to response activities. It 

also does not include programs administered by non-government agencies, 

although they provide extensive resources during declared disasters. 

The survey questionnaire and other documents reviewed indicate there is an array 

of programs for individual and community needs that may be of 

1

 Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website is subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current 


information. 


2

 FEMA-229 dated September 2005. 


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assistance before, during, and after a declared disaster, depending upon the 

circumstances and available resources. 

We identified 240 programs that provide disaster assistance. A complete 

listing of the programs is included in Appendix A. Table 1 depicts the 

number of disaster assistance programs per agency or department. This table 

represents a breakdown of the total number of disaster assistance programs 

into the 22 agencies or departments that administer them. 

Agency or Department Number of Disaster 

Assistance Programs 

U.S. Department of Agriculture 49 

Department of Homeland Security 51 

Department of Health and Human 

Services 

35 

Department of Commerce 16 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development 

12 

Department of Interior 10 

Department of Justice 10 

Department of Defense 9 

Department of Education 9 

Corporation for National and Community 

Service 

8 

Veterans Administration 7 

Department of the Treasury 5 

Social Security Administration 4 

National Archives and Records 

Administration 

3 

Department of Labor 2 

Department of Transportation 2 

General Services Administration 2 

Small Business Administration 2 

Environmental Protection Agency 1 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 1 

Legal Services Corporation 1 

United States Postal Service 1 

Total 22 240 

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The agencies/departments with the most programs are the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA), DHS, and Department of Health and Human Services 

(HHS). Combined, these three agencies administer 135 of the programs, or 

56%. Figure 1 below shows a graph of this breakdown by agencies/ 

departments. 

Agencies/Department's Disaster 

Assistance Programs Breakdown 

56% 

44% 

Agencies in this grouping are USDA, DHS, HHS 

Agencies in this grouping are DOC, HUD, DOI, DOJ, DOD, ED, 

CNCS, VA, TREAS, SSA,NARA, DOL, DOT, GSA, SBA,EPA, 

FDIC, LSC, USPS 

Figure 1 - Source: Compendium of Disaster Assistance Programs 

Each program has a functional area in which it is administered. Through the 

use of the CFDA website, we have identified 27 functional areas. The 240 

programs were broken down into these functional areas, with 148 programs 

falling into more than 1 functional area. 

Community Development has the largest number of programs with a total of 

64 programs, or 27%. Table 2 shows the number of programs in each 

functional area. 

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Functional Area # of Programs 

Advisory Services 14 

Agriculture 26 

Building Equipment 16 

Business and Commerce 45 

Community Development 64 

Conservation 41 

Criminal Justice 12 

Cultural Affairs 1 

Debris Removal 9 

Education 20 

Emergency Preparedness 30 

Employment 17 

Energy 21 

Environment Quality 8 

Flood 42 

Food and Nutrition 7 

Health and Services 31 

Housing 23 

Income Security 33 

Loans 18 

Mitigation Assistance 35 

Parks and Recreation 25 

Public Assistance 17 

Public Works 14 

Roads and Bridges 18 

Surplus Property 5 

Transportation 16 

Table 2 - Source: Compendium of Disaster Assistance Programs 

Using information contained on the CFDA website, we identified four 

applicant types: 

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businesses, 

individuals, 

state and other local governments, and 

all applicants.3 

Figure 2 illustrates the number of disaster assistance programs by applicant 

type. As shown below, the largest applicant type, with 166 programs or 69%, 

is the State and other local governments. 

3

 All applicants means that anyone can apply for the disaster assistance program, including businesses, individuals, and 

state and other local governments. 

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Number of Programs by Applicant Type 

27 

38 

166 

9 

0 

20 

40 

60 

80 

100 

120 

140 

160 

180 

Businesses Individuals State and 

other Locals 

All 

applicants 

Applicant Type 

Disaster 

Assistance 

Programs 

Figure 2 - Source: Compendium of Disaster Assistance Programs 

This inventory of programs provides information for Inspectors General to use 

as a means of becoming knowledgeable of the programs available for 

financial and non-financial assistance during a disaster. It can be used as a 

tool for awareness of similar programs available in other federal agencies. 

We compiled this information under the authority of the Inspector General 

Act of 1978, as amended. As agreed upon with the CIGIE, we performed the 

following non-audit services to compile this compendium to use as a tool for 

agencies or departments in identifying disaster assistance programs that are 

available to provide assistance. We provided the CIGIE with the opportunity 

to verify the information in this compendium and we have incorporated their 

comments as appropriate. 

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Appendix A 

Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

CNCS Retired and Senior 

Volunteer Program 

The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program provides grants 

to qualified agencies and organizations for the dual purpose 

of engaging persons 55 and older in volunteer service to 

meet critical community needs; and to provide a high 

quality experience that will enrich the lives of volunteers. 

94.002 

CNCS Learn and Serve 

America - School 

and Community 

Based Programs 

To encourage elementary and secondary schools and 

community-based agencies to create, develop, and offer 

service-learning opportunities for school-age youth; educate 

teachers about service-learning and incorporate servicelearning opportunities into classrooms to enhance academic 

learning; coordinate adult volunteers in schools; and 

introduce young people to a broad range of careers and 

encourage them to pursue further education and training. 

94.004 

CNCS Learn and Serve 

America - Higher 

Education 

This grant program has two main objectives: 

(1) To support high quality service learning projects that 

engage students in meeting community needs with 

demonstrable results, while enhancing students' academic 

and civic learning; and (2) to support efforts to build 

capacity and strengthen the service infrastructure with 

institutions of higher education. 

94.005 

CNCS AmeriCorps AmeriCorps is the cornerstone of the Corporation's national 

service programs. AmeriCorps addresses pressing 

education, public safety, human, and environmental needs 

of our Nation's communities by encouraging Americans to 

serve either part or full-time. AmeriCorps programs have 

four goals: (1) getting things done by providing services 

with direct and demonstrable results; (2) strengthen 

communities and uniting individuals of different 

backgrounds in a common effort to improve their 

communities; (3) encourage responsibility through service 

and civic education (AmeriCorps enables members to see 

themselves as leaders and problem solvers and fulfill their 

responsibilities to their communities); and (4) expand 

opportunities in return for devoting a year of their lives to 

national service. AmeriCorps members may receive 

education awards for qualified postsecondary education 

expenses or to pay off qualified student loans. 

94.006 

CNCS Planning and 

Program 

Development 

Grants 

Innovation grants support innovative demonstration service 

programs that build the ethic of service among Americans of 

all ages and backgrounds. These include the AmeriCorps 

Education Award Program, AmeriCorps Promise Fellows, 

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service grants, and 

Disability Outreach grants. 

94.007 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

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Appendix A 

Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

CNCS Foster Grandparent 

Program 

The Foster Grandparent Program provides grants to 

qualified agencies and organizations for the dual purpose of 

engaging persons 60 or older, with limited incomes, in 

volunteer service to meet critical community needs; and to 

provide a high quality volunteer experience that will enrich 

the lives of the volunteers. Program funds are used to 

support Foster Grandparents in providing supportive, person 

to person service to children with exceptional or special 

needs. 

94.011 

CNCS Volunteers in 

Service to America 

To supplement efforts of private, nonprofit organizations 

and Federal, State, and local government agencies to 

eliminate poverty and poverty-related problems by enabling 

persons from all walks of life and all age groups to perform 

meaningful and constructive service as volunteers. 

94.013 

CNCS Senior Companion 

Program 

The Senior Companion Program provides grants to qualified 

agencies and organizations for the dual purpose of engaging 

persons 60 and older, particularly those with limited 

incomes, in volunteer service to meet critical community 

needs; and to provide a high quality experience that will 

enrich the lives of the volunteers. Program funds are used 

to support Senior Companions in providing supportive, 

individualized services to help adults with special needs 

maintain their dignity and independence. 

94.016 

DHS Homeland Security 

Grant Program 

(HSGP) 

To enhance the ability of the State, local and tribal 

governments to prepare, prevent, respond to, and recover 

from terrorist attacks and other disasters. The HSGP is the 

primary funding mechanism for building and sustaining 

national preparedness capabilities. HSGP is comprised of 

four separate grant programs. 

97.067 

DHS State Homeland 

Security Program 

To build capabilities to prevent, deter, respond to, and 

recover from incidents of terrorism at the State and local 

levels through planning, equipment, training, and exercise 

activities and support the implementation of State homeland 

security strategies and key elements of the national 

preparedness architecture, including the National 

Preparedness Goal, the National Incident Management 

System and the National Response Plan. 

97.073 

DHS National Incident 

Management 

System (NIMS) 

To support the development, integration, and deployment of 

incident management systems. This includes operational, 

technical and programmatic standards in support of 

nationwide implementation of the NIMS model; establish a 

unified approach to incident management, as well as 

standard command and management structures. 

97.107 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

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Appendix A 

Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

DHS Homeland Security 

Preparedness 

Technical 

Assistance 

Program 

To provide direct assistance to State, regional, local and 

tribal jurisdictions to improve their ability to prevent, 

protect against, respond to, and recover from major events, 

including threats or acts of terrorism. 

97.007 

DHS Urban Areas 

Security Initiative 

(UASI) 

To support the unique multi-discipline planning, operations, 

equipment, training, and exercise needs of high threat, high 

density Urban Areas, and to assist them in building and 

sustaining capabilities to prevent, protect against, respond 

to, and recover from threats or acts of terrorism. 

97.008 

DHS State Access to the 

Oil Spill Liability 

Trust Fund 

To encourage greater State participation in response to 

actual or threatened discharges of oil. 

97.013 

DHS Hazardous 

Materials 

Assistance 

Program 

To support State, local, and Indian tribal governments in oil 

and hazardous materials emergency planning and exercises 

and enhance their capabilities to interact with the National 

Response System; through the States, provide technical and 

financial assistance to support activities under the 

Comprehensive Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) Emergency 

Response – Capability Assessment Program. 

97.021 

DHS Flood Insurance To enable persons to purchase insurance against physical 

damage to or loss of buildings and/or contents therein 

caused by floods, mudslide (i.e., mudflow), or flood-related 

erosion, thereby reducing Federal disaster assistance 

payments, and to promote wise floodplain management 

practices in the Nation’s flood-prone and mudflow-prone 

areas. 

97.022 

DHS Community 

Assistance 

Program – State 

Support Services 

Element (CAPSSSE) 

To ensure that communities participating in the National 

Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are achieving flood loss 

reduction measures consistent with program direction. The 

CAP-SSSE is intended to identify, prevent and resolve 

floodplain management issues in participating communities 

before they develop into problems requiring enforcement 

action. 

97.023 

DHS Emergency Food 

and Shelter 

National Board 

Program 

To supplement and expand ongoing efforts to provide 

shelter, food, and supportive services for needy families and 

individuals. To strengthen efforts to create more effective 

and innovative local programs by providing supplemental 

funding for them. To conduct minimum rehabilitation of 

existing mass shelter or mass feeding facilities, but only to 

the extent necessary to make facilities safe, sanitary and 

bring them into compliance with local building codes. 

97.024 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

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Appendix A 

Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

DHS National Urban 

Search and Rescue 

(US&R) Response 

System 

Develop, maintain, deploy, coordinate, and support National 

Urban Search and Rescue resources on-scene to locate, 

provide initial medical treatment, and extricate victims of 

incidents requiring specialized search and rescue operations 

while simultaneously enhancing the US&R response 

capabilities of State and local governments. 

97.025 

DHS Debris Removal 

Insurance 

The project will consist of the incorporation of a captive 

insurance company by the City of New York in the State of 

New York and its contractors for claims arising from debris 

removal at the World Trade Center following the terrorist 

attacks of September 11, 2001. 

97.064 

DHS Emergency 

Management 

Institute - Training 

Assistance 

To defray travel and per diem expenses of State, local and 

tribal emergency management personnel who attend training 

courses conducted by the Emergency Management Institute, 

at the Emmitsburg, Maryland facility; Bluemont, Virginia 

facility; Nobel Training Center in Anniston, Alabama; and 

selected off-site locations. Its purpose is to improve 

emergency management practices among State, local and 

tribal government managers, in response to emergencies and 

disasters. Programs embody the Comprehensive Emergency 

Management System by unifying the elements of 

management common to all emergencies: planning, 

preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. 

97.026 

DHS Emergency 

Management 

Institute 

Independent Study 

Program 

The program currently consists of 66 courses available to 

participants, with the objective of enhancing public and 

selected audience knowledge of emergency management 

practices among officials of Federal, State, local and tribal 

governments and voluntary organizations in response to 

emergencies and disasters. 

97.027 

DHS Emergency 

Management 

Institute - Resident 

Educational 

Program 

To improve emergency management practices among State, 

local and tribal government managers, and Federal officials 

as well, in response to emergencies and disasters. Programs 

embody the Comprehensive Emergency Management 

System by unifying the elements of management common 

to all emergencies: planning, preparedness, mitigation, 

response, and recovery. 

97.028 

DHS Flood Mitigation 

Assistance 

To assist States and communities in implementing measures 

to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to 

buildings, manufactured homes, and other structures 

insurable under the NFIP. 

97.029 

DHS Community 

Disaster Loans 

To provide loans subject to Congressional loan authority, to 

any local government that has suffered substantial loss of 

revenues in an area in which the President designates a 

major disaster exists. The funds can only be used to 

maintain existing functions of a municipal operating 

character and the local government must demonstrate a need 

for financial assistance. 

97.030 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 
Appendix A 

Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

DHS Cora Brown Fund To use funds made possible by a bequest of funds from the 

late Cora C. Brown of Kansas City, Missouri, who left a 

portion of her estate to the United States for the purpose of 

helping victims of natural disasters not caused by or 

attributed to war. 

97.031 

DHS Crisis Counseling To provide immediate crisis counseling services, when 

required, to victims of a major federally declared disaster 

for the purpose of addressing mental health problems caused 

or aggravated by a major disaster or its aftermath. 

Assistance is short-term in nature and provided at no cost to 

the disaster victims. 

97.032 

DHS Disaster Legal 

Services 

To provide legal assistance to individuals affected by a 

major federal disaster. 

97.033 

DHS Disaster 

Unemployment 

Assistance 

To provide special federally funded weekly benefits to 

workers and self-employed individuals who are unemployed 

as a direct result of a Presidentially-declared major disaster, 

and who are not eligible for regular Unemployment 

Insurance benefits paid by States. (Administered by DOL 

through funding from FEMA.) 

97.034 

DHS Disaster Grants – 

Public Assistance 

(Presidentially 

Declared Disasters) 

To assist State and local governments in recovering from the 

devastating effects of disasters by providing assistance for 

debris removal, emergency protective measures and the 

repair, restoration, reconstruction or replacement of public 

facilities or infrastructure damaged or destroyed. 

97.036 

DHS Hazard Mitigation 

Grant 

To provide States and local governments financial 

assistance to implement measures that will permanently 

reduce or eliminate future damages and losses from natural 

hazards through safer building practices and improving 

existing structures and supporting infrastructure. 

97.039 

DHS Chemical Stockpile 

Emergency 

Preparedness 

Program 

To enhance emergency preparedness capabilities of the 

States, local, and tribal communities at each of the eight 

chemical agent stockpile storage facilities. The purpose of 

the program is to assist States and local communities in 

efforts to improve their capacity to plan for and respond to 

accidents associated with the storage and ultimate disposal 

of chemical warfare materials. 

97.040 

DHS National Dam 

Safety Program 

To encourage the establishment and maintenance of 

effective State programs intended to ensure dam safety, to 

protect human life and property, and to improve State dam 

safety programs. 

97.041 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

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Appendix A 

Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

DHS Emergency 

Management 

Performance 

Grants (EMPG) 

To provide resources to assist State and local governments 

to sustain and enhance all-hazards emergency management 

capabilities. All hazards approach to emergency response, 

including the development of a comprehensive program, 

planning, training, exercises, sets the stage for an effective 

and consistent response to any threatened or actual disaster 

or emergency, regardless of the cause. States have the 

opportunity to use EMPG funds to further strengthen their 

ability to support emergency management activities while 

simultaneously addressing issues of national concern as 

identified in the National Priorities of National Preparedness 

Guidelines. 

97.042 

DHS Cooperating 

Technical Partners 

To increase local involvement in, and ownership of, the 

development and maintenance of flood hazard maps 

produced for the NFIP. 

97.045 

DHS Fire Management 

Assistance Grant 

To provide grants to States, Indian tribal governments and 

local governments for the mitigation, management and 

control of any fire burning on publicly (nonfederal) or 

privately owned forest or grassland that threatens such 

destruction as would constitute a major disaster. 

97.046 

DHS Pre-Disaster 

Mitigation 

To provide States and communities with a much needed 

source of pre-disaster mitigation funding for cost-effective 

hazard mitigation activities that are part of a comprehensive 

mitigation program, and that reduce injuries, loss of life, and 

damage and destruction of property. 

97.047 

DHS Disaster Housing 

Assistance to 

Individuals and 

Households in 

Presidential 

Declared Disaster 

Areas 

To provide financial assistance and, if necessary, direct 

assistance to individuals and households affected as a direct 

result of a presidentially declared major disaster or 

emergency, who have uninsured or under-insured, necessary 

expenses and serious needs and are unable to meet such 

expenses or needs through other means. 

97.048 

DHS Presidential 

Declared Disaster 

Assistance - 

Disaster Housing 

Operations for 

Individuals and 

Households 

To address disaster-related housing needs of individuals and 

households suffering hardship within an area which, by 

Presidential declaration, has been designated as a disaster 

area. 

97.049 

DHS Presidential 

Declared Disaster 

Assistance to 

Individuals and 

Households – 

Other Needs 

To provide assistance to individuals and households affected 

by a disaster or emergency declared by the President, and 

enable them to address necessary expenses and serious 

needs, which cannot be met through other forms of disaster 

assistance or through other means such as insurance. 

97.050 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

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Appendix A 

Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

DHS Emergency 

Operations Center 

(EOC) 

The purpose of the EOC program is to supplement and 

assist State and local efforts to improve their capabilities to 

respond to emergencies or disasters including any that may 

be caused by terrorist attacks using conventional means or 

Weapons of Mass Destruction. The program provides 

grants to the States to encourage the development of EOCs 

that provide flexibility, sustainability, security, survivability 

and interoperability. Fully capable emergency operations 

facilities at the State and local levels are an essential 

element of a comprehensive national emergency 

management system and are necessary to ensure continuity 

of operations and continuity of government in major 

disasters caused by any hazard. 

97.052 

DHS Citizen Corps The purpose of Citizen Corps is to bring together 

community and government leaders to coordinate 

community involvement in emergency preparedness, 

planning, mitigation, response and recovery. 

97.053 

DHS Interoperable 

Communications 

Equipment 

Provide funding to jurisdictions across the Nation for 

demonstration projects that will explore uses of equipment 

and technologies to increase interoperability among the fire 

service, law enforcement, and emergency medical service 

communities. These projects will illustrate and encourage 

the acceptance of new technologies and operating methods 

to assist communities in achieving interoperability. 

97.055 

DHS Competitive 

Training Grants 

To support the training initiatives that are national in scope 

and further the FEMA mission to reduce the loss of life, 

property and protect the Nation from all hazards, including 

natural disasters, acts of terrorisms, and other man-made 

disasters, by leading and supporting the Nation in a riskbased, comprehensive emergency management system of 

preparedness, protection, response, recovery and mitigation. 

97.068 

DHS Map 

Modernization 

Management 

Support 

To increase local involvement in, and ownership of, 

management of the development and maintenance of flood 

hazard maps produced for the NFIP. 

97.070 

DHS Metropolitan 

Medical Response 

System (MMRS) 

The MMRS program provides funding to designated 

localities to assist in maintaining and updating plans, 

delivering training, purchasing equipment and 

pharmaceuticals, and conducting exercises. The mission of 

MMRS is to enhance local medical incident management's 

ability to coordinate and respond to a mass casualty event 

during the crucial first hours, until significant external 

resources arrive and become operational. 

97.071 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

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Appendix A 

Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

DHS National Center for 

Missing and 

Exploited Children 

To support investigative and forensics support activities 

related to investigations of missing and exploited children, 

promote awareness of the child pornography tip line and 

Project Alert; and, in conjunction with other Federal law 

enforcement agencies, support the establishment and 

maintenance of a national resource center and clearinghouse 

dedicated to missing and exploited children issues. 

97.076 

DHS Public Alert Radios 

for Schools 

To disseminate public alerts and warnings by providing 

Public Alert Radios to eligible schools. Public alerts and 

warnings can be disseminated nationwide, regionally, or 

locally. This program will: (a) expand delivery of public 

alert services to designated schools; and (b) enhance and 

strengthen the capability of designated schools to provide 

alert and warning information directly to students and the 

public. 

97.079 

DHS Earthquake 

Consortium 

The Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, as 

amended, directs FEMA to operate a program of grants and 

assistance to enable States to develop mitigation, 

preparedness and response plans, prepare inventories and 

conduct seismic safety inspection of critical structures and 

lifelines, update building and zoning codes and ordinances 

to enhance seismic safety, increase earthquake awareness 

and education, and encourage the development of multiState groups for such purposes. 

97.082 

DHS Hurricane Katrina 

Case Management 

Initiative Program 

To provide case management services for displaced persons 

from Presidentially-declared disaster areas affected by 

Hurricane Katrina. 

97.084 

DHS Alternative 

Housing Pilot 

Program 

Evaluate the efficacy of non-traditional short and 

intermediate-term housing alternatives for potential future 

use in a catastrophic disaster environment. Identify, develop 

and evaluate alternatives to, and alternative forms of, FEMA 

Disaster Housing to assist victims of the 2005 hurricanes in 

the Gulf Coast. Consider the feasibility of these options as 

part of the standard package of housing assistance that could 

be made available by Federal government agencies or State 

agencies for other disasters of various sizes, locations and 

impacts. Assure that pilot projects address the needs of a 

variety of populations, such as persons with disabilities and 

the elderly, historically underserved populations as well as 

renters, homeowners, single-family dwelling occupants and 

multi-family dwelling occupants. 

97.087 

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DHS Disaster Assistance 

Projects 

This category is not for unsolicited proposals. Provides 

funding that has been designated by Congressionally 

appropriated authorization, generally for a specified project, 

or to provide unique or limited scope funding for certain 

Disaster Assistance Projects identified by Congress or a 

DHS program office. 

97.088 

DHS Repetitive Flood 

Claims 

To assist States, Indian tribal governments, and 

communities to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of 

flood damage to structures insured under the NFIP that have 

had one or more claims for flood damages through 

mitigation activities that are in the best interest of the 

National Flood Insurance Fund (NFIF). 

97.092 

DHS Fire Service 

Hazardous 

Materials 

Preparedness and 

Response 

Provide information to the fire and emergency services 

community, emergency managers, and other local 

government officials concerning issues related to the 

planning, mitigation, prevention, and response to hazardous 

materials incidents, which includes acts of terrorism. 

97.093 

DHS Commercial 

Equipment Direct 

Assistance 

Program 

To enhance regional response capabilities, mutual aid, and 

interoperable communications by providing technology and 

equipment, together with training and technical assistance 

required to operate that equipment, to public safety agencies 

in smaller jurisdictions and certain metropolitan areas to 

prevent, deter, and respond to terrorist attacks as identified 

in State homeland security strategies. 

97.096 

DHS Disaster Donations 

Management 

Program 

To distribute technology solutions to State and local 

government and voluntary agencies throughout the country 

prior to a major event through the Aidmatrix 

Foundation/FEMA partnership. This will allow end-users to 

incorporate technology solutions into their planning, 

increasing their capacity to respond quickly and effectively 

once a disaster occurs. 

97.098 

DHS Disaster Housing 

Assistance Grant 

To provide temporary housing assistance and case 

management for families who were displaced by Hurricanes 

Katrina and Rita. The Disaster Housing Assistance Program 

(DHAP) would be implemented in the form of a rental 

assistance program that would continue providing housing 

subsidies for families for the next 18 months after 

termination of FEMA’s initial temporary housing program. 

97.109 

DHS Severe Repetitive 

Loss Program 

To assist States and local governments in supporting actions 

that reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage 

to residential properties insured under the NFIP that meet 

the definition of severe repetitive loss property, and to 

reduce losses to the National Flood Insurance Fund (NFIF) 

by funding projects that result in the greatest savings to the 

NFIF in the shortest time period. 

97.110 

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DHS Regional 

Catastrophic 

Preparedness Grant 

Program (RCPGP) 

The goal of RCPGP is to support an integrated planning 

system that provides for regional all-hazard planning for 

catastrophic events and the development of necessary plans, 

protocols, and procedures to manage a catastrophic event. 

Objectives include, creating regional planning processes and 

planning communities through the establishment of a 

Catastrophic Planning Working Group; Identifying and 

assessing priority areas of concern using both capabilitiesbased and scenario-based planning models; Developing 

enhanced regional plans and addressing shortcomings in 

jurisdiction plans to support both the management of a 

catastrophic incident and to enable enduring government; 

and linking planning efforts to resource allocations. 

97.111 

DOC Interjurisdiction 

Fisheries Act of 

1986 

To assist States in managing interjurisdictional fisheries 

resources. 

11.407 

DOC Investments for 

Public Works and 

Economic 

Development 

Facilities 

The Public Works and Economic Development Program of 

the Economic Development Administration (EDA) is 

designed to enhance regional competitiveness and promote 

long-term economic development in regions experiencing 

substantial economic distress. Through the program, EDA 

provides Public Works investment assistance to support the 

construction or rehabilitation of essential public 

infrastructure and facilities necessary to generate or retain 

long-term private sector jobs and investments, attract private 

sector capital, and promote regional competitiveness. 

Grants (referred to throughout this document as 

investments) may be used for projects such as expanding 

and upgrading infrastructure to attract new industry, 

supporting technology-led development, redeveloping 

brownfield sites, promoting eco-industrial development, and 

supporting heritage preservation development investments 

such as those promoted by the Executive Order on Preserve 

America. 

11.300 

DOC Coastal Zone 

Management 

Administration 

Awards 

To assist States in implementing and enhancing Coastal 

Zone Management programs that have been approved by the 

Secretary of Commerce. 

11.419 

DOC Automated Flood 

Warning System 

(AFWS) 

The objective of the Automated Flood Warning Systems 

Program is to provide funding to communities with flood or 

flash flood problems that affect safety of life and property to 

assist them in creating, renovating, or enhancing AFWS. 

11.450 

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DOC Economic 

Development - Support 

for Planning 

Organizations 

The Economic Development Administration (EDA) 

provides Planning assistance to provide support to 

Planning Organizations (as defined in 13 CFR 303.2) 

for the development, implementation, revision, or 

replacement of a Comprehensive Economic 

Development Strategy, short-term planning efforts, and 

State plans designed to create and retain higher-skill, 

higher-wage jobs, particularly for the unemployed and 

underemployed in the Nation's most economically 

distressed regions. Planning activities supported by 

these grants (referred to throughout this document as 

investments) must be part of a continuous process 

involving the active participation of Private Sector 

Representatives (as defined in 13 CFR 300.3), public 

officials, and private citizens. In addition, they must 

include: (a) analysis of local economies; 

(b) identification of economic development goals; 

(c) determination of project opportunities; and 

(d) formulation and implementation of an economic 

development program that includes systematic efforts to 

reduce unemployment and increase incomes. Current 

investment priorities include applications that help 

develop and enhance regional industry clusters and 

assist local leaders in understanding and applying the 

principles of entrepreneurship and technological 

innovation. See 13 CFR 303.1 and 303.7. 

11.302 

DOC Economic 

Development - 

Technical Assistance 

EDA oversees three technical assistance programs 

(National, Local and University Center) that promote 

economic development and alleviate unemployment, 

underemployment, and out-migration in distressed 

regions. These programs provide grants or cooperative 

agreements (referred to throughout this document as 

investments) to: (1) invest in institutions of higher 

education to establish and operate University Centers to 

provide technical assistance to public and private sector 

organizations with the goal of enhancing local economic 

development; (2) support innovative approaches to 

stimulate economic development in distressed regions; 

(3) disseminate information and studies of economic 

development issues of national significance; and 

(4) finance feasibility studies and other projects leading 

to local economic development. These programs aid the 

long-range economic development of regions with 

severe unemployment and low per capita income. 

11.303 

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DOC Manufacturing 

Extension Partnership 

To establish, maintain, and support manufacturing 

extension centers and services, the functions of which 

are to improve the competitiveness of firms accelerating 

the usage of appropriate manufacturing technology by 

smaller U.S. based manufacturing firms, and partner 

with the States in developing such technical assistance 

programs and services for their manufacturing base. 

11.611 

DOC Minority Business 

Enterprise Centers 

To provide electronic and one-on-one business 

development services for a nominal fee to minority 

firms and individuals interested in entering, expanding 

or improving their efforts in the marketplace. The 

Minority Business Development Agency's funded 

Minority Business Enterprise Center operators provide a 

wide range of services to clients, from initial 

consultations to the identification and resolution of 

specific business problems. 

11.800 

DOC Economic 

Adjustment 

Assistance 

To address the needs of distressed communities 

experiencing adverse economic changes that may 

occur suddenly or over time, and generally result 

from industrial or corporate restructuring, new 

Federal laws or requirements, reduction in defense 

expenditures, depletion of natural resources, or 

natural disaster. Economic Adjustment Assistance 

grants (referred to throughout this document as 

investments) are intended to enhance a distressed 

community's ability to compete economically by 

stimulating private investment in targeted areas. 

Current investment priorities include proposals 

that: (a) promote comprehensive, entrepreneurial, 

and innovation-based economic development 

efforts that enhance the competitiveness of regions 

in the global economy. The investments will be 

part of a long-term strategy to promote the region's 

success in achieving a rising standard of living by 

supporting existing industry clusters, developing 

emerging new clusters, or attracting new regional 

economic drivers; (b) support technology-led 

economic development and reflect the important 

role of linking universities and industry and 

technology transfers; and (c) advance communityand faith-based social entrepreneurship in 

redevelopment strategies for regions of chronic 

economic distress. 

11.307 

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DOC Geodetic Surveys and 

Services (Geodesy and 

Applications of the 

National Geodetic 

Reference System) 

To provide national, coordinated spatial reference 

system at various specified intervals which provide 

scale, orientation, coordinated positions, and elevations 

of specific points for use in surveying, boundary 

delineations and demarcation, mapping, planning, and 

development; to provide assistance to State, local, 

municipal, and regional agencies in the development 

and implementation of Multipurpose Land Information 

Systems/Geographic Information Systems pilot projects 

and spatial reference system development and/or 

enhancement, and Height Modernization. For the Joint 

Hydrographic Center to improve the techniques and 

technology of hydrographic surveying, hydrographic 

services, and ocean mapping. 

11.400 

DOC Unallied Industry 

Projects 

To provide grants and cooperative agreements for 

biological, economic, sociological, public policy, and 

other research and administration projects to benefit 

U.S. fisheries industries and contribute to the economic 

and social welfare of the Nation. To award grants and 

cooperative agreements to develop innovative 

approaches and methods for ensuring the safety, quality 

and integrity of U.S. fishery products; also, to provide 

funds to the five States bordering the Gulf of Mexico, 

for projects or other measures designed to alleviate the 

long-term effects of disasters on the Gulf's fishery 

resources and associated habitat. To facilitate the 

administration, coordination and implementation of the 

research activities of the Cooperative Institute for 

Fisheries Molecular Biology (FISHTEC). The goal of 

FISHTEC is to develop, test, and apply new technology 

in molecular biology for use in management of 

commercial and recreational marine fisheries. 

Emphasis of the research program is placed on 

development of molecular genetics techniques to 

identify and evaluate the status of fish 

stocks/populations subject to fishing pressure and/or 

environmental impacts. To support the implementation 

of community-based demonstration projects in the U.S. 

western Pacific that promote the development of 

fishery-related industries and the economic selfsufficiency of native Pacific islanders and communities. 

11.452 

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DOC Unallied Management 

Projects 

Projects provide economic, sociological, public policy, 

and other information needed by Federal and State 

natural resource administrators for conserving and 

managing fishery resources and protected species and 

their environment in Federal, State, and U.S. territorial 

waters. Information derived from project studies may 

consist of econometric data, user profiles, sociological 

case studies, policy and systems analyses, and other 

knowledge, and is used in such decisions as resource 

allocations, total and zonal harvest determinations, and 

initial apportionment of harvesting rights under 

controlled access management regimes. Primary users 

of project information include the National Marine 

Fisheries Service, Regional Fishery Management 

Councils, Interstate Marine Fisheries Commissions, 

State, and other Federal resource management agencies. 

11.454 

DOC Habitat Conservation To provide grants and cooperative agreements for 

biological, economic, sociological, public policy, and 

other research, administration, and public education 

projects on the coastal environment to benefit U.S. 

fisheries, conserve protected resources, and add to the 

economic and social well being of the Nation. Projects 

are funded to carry out public policy pertaining to 

protection and restoration of the Nation's wetlands and 

other coastal habitats, pursuant to the Fish and Wildlife 

Coordination Act, Magnuson Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Estuary 

Restoration Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, 

Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act of 

1987, Coastal Wetlands Planning Protection and 

Research Act, Coral Reef Conservation Act and other 

legislation. Research and management includes 

determining the effects of habitat modifications and 

contaminants on populations of living marine resources, 

restoring depleted stocks that have been adversely 

impacted by habitat modifications, determining if 

artificial or restored habitat fulfills essential habitat 

needs of living marine resources, and quantifying 

contaminants and debris that pose a hazard to 

populations of these animals. 

11.463 

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DOC Coastal Services Center To support projects aimed at developing a sciencebased, multi-dimensional approach that will allow for 

the maintenance or improvement of environmental 

quality while at the same time allowing for economic 

growth. 

11.473 

DOC Fisheries Disaster 

Relief 

To deal with commercial fishery failures due to fishery 

resource disasters. Disaster causes may be (a) natural; 

(b) man-made (if they are "beyond the control of 

fisheries managers to mitigate through conservation and 

management measures"); or (c) undetermined. 

11.477 

DOC Public 

Telecommunications 

Facilities Planning and 

Construction 

To assist in the planning, acquisition, installation, and 

modernization of public telecommunications facilities, 

through planning grants and matching construction 

grants, in order to: (a) extend delivery of public 

telecommunications services to as many citizens of the 

United States and territories as possible by the most 

efficient and economical means, including the use of 

broadcast and nonbroadcast technologies; (b) increase 

public telecommunications services and facilities 

available to, operated by and owned by minorities and 

women; and (c) strengthen the capability of existing 

public television and radio stations to provide public 

telecommunications service to the public. 

11.550 

DOD Beach Erosion Control 

Projects 

To control public beach and shore erosion to public 

shores through projects not specifically authorized by 

Congress. 

12.101 

DOD Emergency 

Rehabilitation of Flood 

Control Works or 

Federally-Authorized 

Coastal Protection 

Works 

To assist in the repair and restoration of flood control 

works damaged by flood, or federally authorized 

hurricane flood and shore protection works damaged by 

extraordinary wind, wave, or water action. 

12.102 

DOD Emergency Operations 

Flood Response and 

Post Flood Response 

To provide emergency flood response and post flood 

response assistance as required to supplement State and 

local efforts and capabilities in time of flood or coastal 

storm. 

12.103 

DOD Flood Plain 

Management Services 

To promote appropriate recognition of flood hazards in 

land and water use planning and development through 

the provision of flood and flood plain related data, 

technical services, and guidance. 

12.104 

DOD Protection, Clearing 

and Straightening 

Channels 

To restore channels for purposes of navigation or flood 

control. 

12.109 

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DOD Emergency Advance 

Measures for Flood 

Prevention 

To perform activities prior to flooding or flood fight 

that would assist in protecting against loss of life and 

damages to property due to flooding. 

12.111 

DOD Debris Removal Provide debris removal services. * 

DOD Pharmaceuticals Purchase of time critical pharmaceuticals and medical 

supplies. 

* 

DOD Roofing Install temporary roofs on homes to allow occupation by 

owners/residents and relieve the need to provide 

temporary housing. 

* 

DOI Indian Housing 

Assistance 

To use the Housing Improvement Program (HIP) 

resources of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to eliminate 

substantially substandard Indian owned and inhabited 

housing for very low income eligible Indians living in 

approved tribal service areas. This effort is assisted by 

the Indian Health Service (Department of Health and 

Human Services), which provides water and sanitary 

systems for houses repaired or built with HIP funds. 

15.141 

DOI Wildlife Restoration The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 

provides funding for the selection, restoration, 

rehabilitation, and improvement of wildlife habitat; 

wildlife management research; wildlife population 

surveys and inventories; land acquisition, coordination; 

development of facilities; facilities and services for 

conducting a hunter education and safety program; and 

provisions for public use of wildlife resources. Some 

eligible activities include planting food plots for 

wildlife; posting boundaries on wildlife management 

areas; building roads and trails; controlling noxious 

vegetation; and providing public access to wildliferelated recreation opportunities. Section 4(c) Hunter 

Education program could include training in the safe 

handling and use of firearms and archery equipment; 

hunter responsibilities and ethics; construction, 

operation, and maintenance of public shooting ranges; 

and basic wildlife management and identification. 

15.611 

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NUMBER 

DOI Coastal Wetlands 

Planning, Protection 

and Restoration Act 

To provide competitive matching grants to coastal 

States for coastal wetlands conservation projects. The 

Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration 

Act (Section 305, Title III, Public Law 101-646 U.S.C. 

3954) established the National Coastal Wetlands 

Conservation Grant Program to acquire, restore, and 

enhance wetlands in coastal States. 

15.614 

DOI Cooperative 

Endangered Species 

Conservation Fund 

To provide Federal financial assistance to any State or 

Territory (hereafter, "States"), through its appropriate 

State or territorial agency, to assist in the development 

of programs for the conservation of endangered and 

threatened species. 

15.615 

DOI Partners for Fish and 

Wildlife 

Provide technical and financial assistance to private 

landowners and Native American Tribes interested in 

voluntarily restoring or otherwise improving native 

habitats for fish and wildlife on their lands. 

15.631 

DOI Conservation Grants 

Private Stewardship 

for Imperiled Species 

To provide Federal financial and other assistance to 

individuals and groups engaged in local, private, and 

voluntary conservation efforts to be carried out on 

private lands that benefit species listed or proposed as 

endangered or threatened under the U.S. Endangered 

Species Act, candidate species, or other at-risk species. 

15.632 

DOI Earthquake Hazards 

Reduction Program 

To support earthquake hazards research in order to 

develop information, knowledge, and methods relevant 

to the major Earthquake Hazards Program elements: 

national and regional earthquake hazards assessments; 

research related to earthquake information, monitoring, 

and notification; research on earthquake occurrence, 

physics, and effects; and earthquake safety policy. 

Specific objectives and research tasks identified as 

measures of progress towards the goals of these 

program elements are described in greater detail in the 

Research Priorities section of the annual Program 

Announcement. 

15.807 

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DOI Historic Preservation 

Fund Grants-in-Aid 

To provide matching grants to States for the 

identification, evaluation, and protection of historic 

properties by such means as survey, planning technical 

assistance, acquisition, development, and certain 

Federal tax incentives available for historic properties; 

to provide matching grants to States to expand the 

National Register of Historic Places, (the Nation's 

listing of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and 

objects significant in American history, architecture, 

archaeology, engineering and culture at the National, 

State and local levels) to assist Federal, State, and Local 

Government agencies, nonprofit organizations and 

private individuals in carrying out historic preservation 

activities; and to provide grants to Indian Tribes and 

Alaskan Native Corporations to preserve their culture. 

15.904 

DOI National Register of 

Historic Places 

To expand and maintain the National Register of 

Historic Places for planning, preservation, research, 

public education and tourism efforts; to make the 

information on districts, sites, buildings, structures and 

objects of historical, architectural, archeological, 

engineering and cultural significance more accessible to 

the public in order to increase and broaden the public's 

understanding of the information, foster a national 

preservation ethic, and to promote greater appreciation 

of America's heritage; to coordinate with Federal 

agencies, State and Tribal preservation offices, and the 

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in the 

implementation of laws and policies pertaining to 

historic preservation; and to establish liaison with and 

give guidance to communities under Title I of the 

Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (see 

14.218). 

15.914 

DOI Outdoor RecreationAcquisition, 

Development and 

Planning 

To provide financial assistance to the States and their 

political subdivisions for the preparation of Statewide 

Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plans and 

acquisition and development of outdoor recreation areas 

and facilities for the general public, to meet current and 

future needs. 

15.916 

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NUMBER 

DOJ Missing Children's 

Assistance 

To coordinate Federal missing and exploited children 

activities and to support research, training, technical 

assistance, and demonstration programs to enhance the 

overall response to missing children and their families. 

Establish and maintain a national resource center and 

clearinghouse dedicated to missing and exploited 

children issues that: (1) provides a toll-free hotline 

where citizens can report investigative leads and parents 

and other interested individuals can receive information 

concerning missing children; (2) provides technical 

assistance to parents, law enforcement, and other 

professionals working on missing and exploited children 

cases; (3) promotes information sharing and provides 

technical assistance by networking with regional 

nonprofit organizations, State missing children 

clearinghouses, and law enforcement agencies; 

(4) develops publications that contain practical, timely 

information; and (5) provides information regarding 

programs offering free or low-cost transportation 

services that assist in reuniting children with their 

families. On a periodic basis, as funding is designated 

by Congress for this purpose, conduct national 

incidence studies to determine the type and extent of 

missing children in America. Support law enforcement 

demonstration programs (e.g., the Internet Crimes 

Against Children Task Force Program) to enhance the 

investigative response to missing and exploited children 

cases. Support research to broaden understanding of a 

wide range of missing and exploited children issues 

(e.g., abduction homicide investigation solvability 

factors), to inform training and technical assistance 

efforts and to identify promising practices and programs 

for replication. Develop training programs for law 

enforcement, child protective services, medical 

personnel, and prosecutors to enhance coordination and 

effectiveness of missing and exploited children 

investigations and to enhance the overall system 

response. Identify service gaps and develop programs 

to meet specialized needs of parents or guardians of 

children who are reported missing. 

16.543 

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NUMBER 

DOJ Community Relations 

Service 

To provide free Federal conciliation and mediation 

services to communities in preventing and resolving 

community tensions, conflicts, and civil disorders 

arising from actions, policies, and practices that are 

perceived to be based on race, ethnicity, or national 

origin. No funds are granted to outside organizations to 

provide these services. 

16.200 

DOJ Part E - Developing, 

Testing and 

Demonstrating 

Promising New 

Programs 

To develop and implement programs that design, test, 

and demonstrate effective approaches, techniques and 

methods for preventing and controlling juvenile 

delinquency such as community based- alternatives to 

institutional confinement; developing and implementing 

effective means of diverting juveniles from the 

traditional juvenile justice system; programs stressing 

advocacy activities aimed at improving services to 

youth impacted by the juvenile justice system; model 

programs to strengthen and maintain the family unit 

including self-help programs; prevention and treatment 

programs relating to juveniles who commit serious 

crimes; programs to prevent hate crimes; programs to 

provide aftercare and reintegration services; programs to 

prevent youth gun and gang violence. 

16.541 

DOJ Public Safety Officers' 

Benefits Program 

To provide a $275,658 death benefit (FY 2005) to the 

eligible survivors of Federal, State or local public safety 

officers whose death is the direct and proximate result 

of a personal (traumatic) injury sustained in the line of 

duty. Effective November 29, 1990, the Public Safety 

Officers' Benefits Act also provides the same benefit to a 

public safety officer who has been permanently and 

totally disabled as the direct result of a catastrophic 

personal injury sustained in the line of duty. The injury 

must permanently prevent the officer from performing 

any gainful work. 

16.571 

DOJ Community Capacity 

Development Office 

The Program's objective is national implementation of 

Operation Weed and Seed. Operation Weed and Seed is 

a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to 

combating violent crime, drug use, and gang activity in 

high crime neighborhoods. The goal is to "weed out" 

violence and drug activity in high crime neighborhoods 

and then to "seed" the sites with a wide range of crime 

and drug prevention programs, human service resources, 

and neighborhood restoration activities to prevent crime 

from reoccurring. The strategy emphasizes the 

importance of a coordinated approach, bringing together 

Federal, State and local government, the community, 

and the private sector to form a partnership to create a 

safe, drug-free environment. 

16.595 

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DOJ Edward Byrne 

Memorial Justice 

Assistance Grant 

Program 

To provide States and units of local government with 

funds to provide additional personnel, equipment, 

supplies, contractual support, training, technical 

assistance, and information systems for criminal justice. 

16.738 

DOJ Police Athletic League 

(PAL) 

PAL is a youth crime prevention program that utilizes 

educational, athletic and recreational activities to create 

trust and understanding between police officers and 

youth. 

* 

DOJ Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency 

Prevention-Allocation 

to States 

To increase the capacity of State and local governments 

to support the development of more effective education, 

training, research, prevention, diversion, treatment, 

accountability based sanctions, and rehabilitation 

programs in the area of juvenile delinquency and 

programs to improve the juvenile justice system. 

16.540 

DOJ Juvenile Accountability 

Block Grant (JABG) 

To provide States and units of local government with 

funds to develop programs to strengthen and promote 

greater accountability in the juvenile justice system. To 

survey the field and identify projects that would benefit 

from research, demonstration, and evaluation in the 16 

purpose areas identified in the JABG Program. To 

provide training and technical assistance to States and 

units of local government so they may develop 

programs outlined in the 16 program areas to promote 

greater accountability in the juvenile justice system. 

16.523 

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NUMBER 

DOJ National Criminal 

History Improvement 

Program (NCHIP) 

To enhance the quality and completeness of the Nation's 

criminal history record systems; to provide financial and 

technical assistance to States for the establishment or 

improvement of computerized criminal history record 

systems and in their efforts to collect data on stalking 

and domestic violence; to improve data accessibility and 

support data transmissions to national systems will 

permit the immediate identification of persons who are 

prohibited from purchasing firearms, are subject to 

domestic violence protective orders, or are ineligible to 

hold positions of responsibility involving children, the 

elderly, or the disabled; to support the development of 

accurate and complete State sex offender identification 

and registration systems which interface with the FBI's 

Sex Offender Registry and meet applicable Federal and 

State requirements; to develop and improve the 

processes for identifying, classifying, collecting, and 

entering data regarding stalking and domestic violence 

into local, State, and national crime information 

databases; to ensure that criminal justice systems are 

designed, implemented, or upgraded to be compliant 

where applicable, with the FBI operated National 

Instant Criminal Background Check System and 

Interstate Automated Fingerprint Identification System, 

meet other applicable statewide or regional criminal 

justice information sharing standards and plans; and, 

build upon ongoing efforts so as to support the wide 

range of technology based, criminal justice information, 

identification, and communications needs identified by 

the States. 

16.554 

DOL Unemployment 

Insurance 

To administer a program of unemployment insurance 

for eligible workers through Federal and State 

cooperation; to administer payment of trade adjustment 

assistance, disaster unemployment assistance, 

unemployment compensation for Federal employees 

and ex-service members. 

17.225 

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DOL WIA Dislocated 

Workers 

The purpose of the program is to reemploy dislocated 

workers, improve the quality of the workforce, and 

enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the 

Nation's economy by providing workforce investment 

activities that increase the employment, retention, and 

earnings of participants, and increase occupational skill 

attainment by the participants. This program is 

designed to increase employment, as measured by entry 

into unsubsidized employment, retention in 

unsubsidized employment after entry into employment, 

and extent of recovery of prior earnings. For cross 

cutting goals, the program intends to enhance customer 

satisfaction for participants and for employers. The 

employment goals will be measured using 

Unemployment Insurance Wage Records systems and 

customer satisfaction goals will be measured by 

sampling. 

17.260 

DOT Airport Improvement 

Program (AIP) 

To assist sponsors, owners, or operators of public-use 

airports in the development of a nationwide system of 

airports adequate to meet the needs of civil aeronautics. 

20.106 

DOT Highway Planning and 

Construction 

Federal-aid Highway Program: To assist State 

transportation agencies in the planning and development 

of an integrated, interconnected transportation system 

important to interstate commerce and travel by 

constructing and rehabilitating the National Highway 

System, including the Eisenhower Interstate System; 

and for transportation improvements to most other 

public roads; to provide aid for the repair of Federal-aid 

highways following disasters; to foster safe highway 

design; to replace or rehabilitate deficient or obsolete 

bridges; and to provide for other special purposes. This 

program also provides for the improvement of roads in 

Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American 

Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Alaska 

Highway. The Federal Lands Highway Program, as an 

adjunct to the Federal Aid Highway Program, provides 

assistance to the Federal Land Management Agencies 

for Federally owned roads. It provides transportation 

engineering services for planning, design, construction, 

and rehabilitation of the highways and bridges 

providing access to federally owned lands. The Federal 

Lands Highway organization also provides training, 

technology, deployment, engineering services, and 

products to other customers. 

20.205 

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ED Charter Schools The program supports the planning, development, and 

initial implementation of charter schools and the 

dissemination of information on charter schools. 

Charter schools provide enhanced parental choice and 

are exempt from many statutory and regulatory 

requirements. In exchange for this increased flexibility, 

charter schools establish plans to improve student 

academic achievement and to stimulate the creativity 

and commitment of teachers, parents, and the public. 

84.282 

ED Federal Supplemental 

Educational 

Opportunity Grants 

To provide eligible undergraduate postsecondary 

students with demonstrated financial need with grant 

assistance to help meet educational expenses. 

84.007 

ED Leveraging Educational 

Assistance Partnership 

To provide grants to the States for use in programs of 

financial assistance to eligible postsecondary students. 

84.069 

ED Fund for the 

Improvement of 

Postsecondary 

Education 

To provide assistance for innovative programs that 

improve access to and the quality of postsecondary 

education. 

84.116 

ED Federal Real Property 

Assistance Program 

To convey surplus Federal Real Property for 

educational purposes at fair market value. 

84.145 

ED Safe and Drug-Free 

Schools And 

Communities National 

Programs 

To enhance the Nation's efforts to prevent the illegal use 

of drugs and violence among, and promote safety and 

discipline for, students at all educational levels; and to 

support mentoring programs for at-risk children. 

84.184 

ED Hurricane Education 

Recovery 

To assist in meeting the educational needs of individuals 

and educational institutions affected by hurricanes in the 

Gulf of Mexico in calendar year 2005. 

84.938 

ED Hurricane Education 

Recovery Awards 

The Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for 

Defense, The Global War on Terror, and Hurricane 

Recovery of 2006 provides grants to assist institutions of 

higher education that suffered losses as a result of 

hurricanes in calendar year 2005. Grants awarded may 

only be used to help defray expenses incurred by 

institutions of higher education that were forced to 

close, relocate, or significantly curtail their activities as 

a result of damage directly caused by such hurricanes. 

These expenses may include lost revenue, 

reimbursement for expenses already incurred, and 

construction associated with the hurricanes in the Gulf 

of Mexico in 2005. Additional information can be 

found at 

http://ifap.ed.gov/eannouncements/katrina.html. 

* 

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* No CFDA number identified. 

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ED Surplus Property 

Program 

For computer donations, Executive Order 12999 

encourages agencies, to the extent permitted by law, to 

transfer computers and related peripheral equipment 

excess to their needs directly to schools and some 

educational nonprofit organizations. The Computers for 

Learning program specifically matches the computer 

needs of schools and educational nonprofit 

organizations with excess equipment in Federal 

agencies. For further information -- 

http://computersforlearning.gov. 

* 

EPA EPA has various programs, which can be used to 

respond to environmental conditions caused by 

disasters. 

* 

FDIC Regulatory Relief for 

Federally Insured 

Financial Institutions 

To provide regulatory assistance to insured institutions, 

including bank/thrift holding companies and their 

subsidiaries, to meet the needs of their customers in 

facilitating recovery following major disasters. 

* 

GSA Disposal of Federal 

Surplus Real Property 

To dispose of surplus real property by lease, permits, 

sale, exchange, or donation. 

39.002 

GSA Donation of Federal 

Surplus Personal 

Property 

To donate Federal personal property no longer required 

for Federal use to public agencies and qualifying 

nonprofit entities in order to reduce the cost of State and 

local government. 

39.003 

HHS Public Health And 

Social Services 

Emergency Fund 

To provide supplemental funding for public health and 

social service emergencies. 

93.003 

HHS Special Programs for 

the Aging - Title III, 

Part B - Grants for 

Supportive Services 

and Senior Centers 

To encourage State Agencies on Aging and Area 

Agencies on Aging to concentrate resources to develop 

and implement comprehensive and coordinated 

community-based systems of service for older 

individuals via Statewide planning, and area planning 

and provision of supportive services, including 

multipurpose senior centers. The objective of these 

services and centers is to maximize the informal support 

provided to older Americans to enable them to remain 

in their homes and communities. Providing 

transportation services, in-home services, and caregiver 

support services, this program insures that elders receive 

the services they need to remain independent. 

93.044 

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* No CFDA number identified. 

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HHS Special Programs for 

the Aging - Title IV 

and Title II -

Discretionary Projects 

To support the development and testing of innovative 

programs, services and systems of support that respond 

to the needs of the Nation’s growing elderly population, 

to improve knowledge of the problems and needs of the 

elderly, to help ensure adequately trained personnel in 

the field of aging, and to demonstrate better ways of 

improving the quality of life for the elderly. 

93.048 

HHS NIEHS Hazardous 

Waste Worker Health 

and Safety Training 

To provide cooperative agreements and project grant 

support for the development and administration of 

model worker health and safety training programs 

consisting of classroom and practical health and safety 

training of workers and their supervisors, who are 

engaged in activities related to hazardous materials, 

hazardous waste generation, treatment, storage, 

disposal, removal, containment, transportation, or 

emergency response. To assist organizations in the 

development of institutional competency to provide 

appropriate training and education to hazardous waste 

workers. 

93.142 

HHS Coordinated Services 

and Access to Research 

for Women, Infants, 

Children and Youth 

The purpose of this funding is providing familycentered care involving outpatient or ambulatory care 

(directly or through contracts) to women, infants, 

children, and youth with HIV/AIDS, and may be used to 

provide additional support services to patients and 

families and family members through the provision of 

coordinated, comprehensive, culturally and 

linguistically competent, family-centered services. 

Funds will be used to support programs that provide 

primary medical care and: (1) Link established systems 

of care to coordinate service delivery and ensure that 

HIV-infected women, infants, children, and youth have 

access to the existing and emerging HIV treatments that 

can make a difference; (2) Implement HIV prevention 

programs for the transmission of HIV from mother to 

child; (3) Educate clients about the opportunities for 

participation in clinical research and other research 

activities; and (4) Address the intensity of service needs, 

high costs, and other complex barriers to comprehensive 

care and research experienced by medically underserved 

and challenging populations. 

93.153 

HHS Health Program for 

Toxic Substances and 

Disease Registry 

To work closely with State, local, and other Federal 

agencies to reduce or eliminate illness, disability, and 

death resulting from exposure of the public and workers 

to toxic substances at spill and waste disposal sites. 

93.161 

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HHS Consolidated Health 

Centers (Community 

Health Centers, 

Migrant Health 

Centers, Health Care 

for the Homeless, 

Public Housing 

Primary Care, and 

School Based Health 

Centers) 

To improve the health of the Nation's underserved 

communities and vulnerable populations by assuring 

access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality 

primary health care services. Individual health center 

grant mechanisms include: (1) Community Health 

Centers; (2) Migrant Health Centers; (3) Health Care for 

the Homeless; and (4) Public Housing Primary Care 

Program. 

93.224 

HHS Healthy Communities 

Access Program 

To provide assistance to communities and consortia of 

health care providers and others to develop or 

strengthen integrated community health care delivery 

systems that coordinate health care services for 

individuals who are uninsured or underinsured, and to 

develop or strengthen activities related to providing 

coordinated care for individuals with chronic conditions 

who are uninsured or underinsured. 

93.252 

HHS Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention 

Investigations and 

Technical Assistance 

To assist State and local health authorities and other 

health related organizations in controlling 

communicable diseases, chronic diseases and disorders, 

and other preventable health conditions. Investigations 

and evaluation of all methods of controlling or 

preventing disease and disability are carried out by 

providing epidemic aid, surveillance, technical 

assistance, consultation, and program support; and by 

providing leadership and coordination of joint national, 

State, and local efforts. STEPS - To enable 

communities to reduce the burden of chronic disease, 

including: preventing diabetes among populations with 

pre-diabetes; increasing the likelihood that persons with 

undiagnosed diabetes are diagnosed; reducing 

complications of diabetes; preventing overweight and 

obesity; reducing overweight and obesity; and reducing 

the complications of asthma. STEPS will achieve these 

outcomes by improving nutrition; increasing physical 

activity; preventing tobacco use and exposure, targeting 

adults who are diabetic or who live with persons with 

asthma; increasing tobacco cessation, targeting adults 

who are diabetic or who live with persons with asthma; 

increasing use of appropriate health care services; 

improving the quality of care; and increasing effective 

self-management of chronic diseases and associated risk 

factors. 

93.283 

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HHS Surplus Property for 

Utilization 

Convey or lease all surplus Federal real properties, 

made available by the disposal agency, which are 

needed and usable by eligible organizations and 

institutions to carry out health programs. 

93.291 

HHS Nurse Education, 

Practice and Retention 

Program 

Grants are awarded to eligible applicant organizations 

for projects to strengthen and enhance the capacity for 

nurse education, practice and retention to address the 

nursing shortage. There are three major priority areas 

(Education, Practice and Retention) and nine purposes 

associated with the three priority areas. Applicants 

must select and focus on one of these nine purposes in 

the grant application. The education priority areas are: 

Purpose E1) expanding enrollment in baccalaureate 

nursing programs; Purpose E2) developing and 

implementing internship and residency programs to 

encourage mentoring and the development of 

specialties; Purpose E3) providing education in new 

technologies, including distance learning 

methodologies. The practice priority areas are: Purpose 

P1) establishing or expanding nursing practice 

arrangements in non-institutional settings to 

demonstrate methods to improve access to primary 

health care in medically underserved communities; 

Purpose P2) providing care for underserved populations 

and other high-risk groups such as the elderly, 

individuals with HIV/AIDS, substance abusers, the 

homeless, and victims of domestic violence; Purpose 

P3) providing managed care, quality improvement, and 

other skills needed to practice in existing and emerging 

organized health care systems; Purpose P4) developing 

cultural competencies among nurses. The retention 

priority areas are: Purpose R1) career ladder bridge 

programs which promote career advancement for 

nursing personnel and registered nurses and; Purpose 

R2) enhancing patient care delivery systems through 

improving the retention of nurses and enhancing patient 

care. 

93.359 

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HHS Temporary Assistance 

for Needy Families 

To provide grants to States, Territories, the District of 

Columbia and federally recognized Indian Tribes 

operating their own Tribal Temporary Assistance for 

Needy Families programs to assist needy families with 

children so that children can be cared for in their own 

homes; to reduce dependency by promoting job 

preparation, work, and marriage; to reduce and prevent 

out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and to encourage the 

formation and maintenance of two-parent families. 

93.558 

HHS Refugee and Entrant 

Assistance - State 

Administered Programs 

To reimburse States for assistance provided to refugees, 

asylees, Cuban and Haitian entrants, victims of a severe 

form of trafficking, certain Amerasians from Viet Nam, 

and Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Holders 

(SIVs) for resettlement by funding cash assistance, 

medical assistance, and social services for the eligible 

population. State agencies may purchase training and 

services from other providers. Refugees in the U.S. may 

be assisted regardless of national origin. 

93.566 

HHS Low Income Home 

Energy Assistance 

To make Low Income Home Energy Assistance 

Program (LIHEAP) grants available to States and other 

jurisdictions to assist eligible households to meet the 

costs of home energy. Supplemental Leveraging 

Incentive Funds may be awarded to reward States and 

other jurisdictions that provide additional benefits and 

services to LIHEAP-eligible households beyond what 

could be provided with Federal funds. Up to 25% of the 

leveraging incentive funds may be set aside for LIHEAP 

grantees that provide services through community-based 

nonprofit organizations to help LIHEAP-eligible 

households reduce their energy vulnerability under the 

Residential Energy Assistance Challenge Program. 

Training and Technical Assistance: To provide training 

and technical assistance to States and other jurisdictions 

administering the LIHEAP block grant program. 

93.568 

HHS Refugee and Entrant 

Assistance - Targeted 

Assistance Grants 

To provide funding for employment-related and other 

social services for refugees, asylees, Amerasians, 

victims of a severe form of trafficking, and entrants in 

areas of high refugee concentration and high welfare 

utilization. 

93.584 

HHS Community Services 

Block Grant 

Discretionary Awards 

To support program activities to alleviate the causes of 

poverty in distressed communities which: (1) assist 

businesses in creating jobs for low-income individuals, 

i.e., develop employment and business development 

opportunities for low-income individuals; (2) a better 

standard of living for rural low-income individuals in 

terms of water and waste water treatment. 

93.570 

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HHS Community Services 

Block Grant 

To provide assistance to States and local communities, 

working through a network of community action 

agencies and other neighborhood-based organizations, 

for the reduction of poverty, the revitalization of lowincome communities, and the empowerment of lowincome families and individuals in rural and urban 

areas to become fully self-sufficient (particularly 

families who are attempting to transition off a State 

program carried out under part A of title IV of the 

Social Security Act), and (1) To provide services and 

activities having a measurable and potential major 

impact on causes of poverty in the community or those 

areas of the community where poverty is a particularly 

acute problem; (2) to provide activities designed to 

assist low-income participants, including the elderly 

poor, to: (a) secure and retain meaningful employment; 

(b) attain an adequate education; 

(c) make better use of available income; (d) obtain and 

maintain adequate housing and a suitable living 

environment; (e) obtain emergency assistance through 

loans or grants to meet immediate and urgent individual 

and family needs, including health services, nutritious 

food, housing, and employment-related assistance; (f) 

remove obstacles and solve problems which block the 

achievement of self-sufficiency; 

(g) achieve greater participation in the affairs of the 

community; and (h) make more effective use of 

other related programs; (3) to provide on an emergency 

basis for the provision of such supplies and services, 

nutritious foodstuffs, and related services, as may be 

necessary to counteract conditions of starvation and 

malnutrition among the poor; and (4) to coordinate and 

establish linkages between governmental and other 

social services programs to assure the effective delivery 

of such services to low-income individuals. 

93.569 

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HHS Child Care and 

Development Block 

Grant 

To make grants to States, Territories, Tribes, and tribal 

organizations for child care assistance for low-income 

families and to: (1) allow each State maximum 

flexibility in developing child care programs and 

policies that best suit the needs of children and parents 

within such State; (2) promote parental choice to 

empower working parents to make their own decisions 

on the child care that best suits their family's needs; 

(3) encourage States to provide consumer education 

information to help parents make informed choices 

about child care; (4) assist States to provide child care 

to parents trying to achieve independence from public 

assistance; and (5) assist States in implementing the 

health, safety, licensing, and registration standards 

established in State regulations. 

93.575 

HHS Child Care Mandatory 

and Matching Funds of 

the Child Care and 

Development Fund 

To make grants to States, Tribes, and tribal 

organizations for child care assistance for low-income 

families and to: (1) allow each State maximum 

flexibility in developing child care programs and 

policies that best suit the needs of children and parents 

within such State; (2) promote parental choice to 

empower working parents to make their own decisions 

on the child care that best suits their family's needs; 

(3) encourage States to provide consumer education 

information to help parents make informed choices 

about child care; (4) assist States to provide child care to 

parents trying to achieve independence from public 

assistance; and (5) assist States in implementing the 

health, safety, licensing, and registration standards 

established in State regulations. 

93.596 

HHS Head Start To promote school readiness by enhancing the social 

and cognitive development of low-income children, 

including children on federally recognized reservations 

and children of migratory farm workers, through the 

provision of comprehensive health, educational, 

nutritional, social and other services; and to involve 

parents in their children's learning and to help parents 

make progress toward their educational, literacy and 

employment goals. Head Start also emphasizes the 

significant involvement of parents in the administration 

of their local Head Start programs. 

93.600 

HHS National Bioterrorism 

Hospital Preparedness 

Program 

To ready hospitals and supporting health care systems to 

deliver coordinated and effective care to victims of 

terrorism and other public health emergencies. 

93.889 

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HHS Rural Health Care 

Services Outreach and 

Rural Health Network 

Development Program 

To expand access to, coordinate, restrain the cost of, and 

improve the quality of essential health services, 

including preventive and emergency services, through 

the development of integrated health care delivery 

systems or networks in rural areas and frontier regions. 

93.912 

HHS HIV Care Formula 

Grants 

To enable States to improve the quality, availability, and 

organization of health care and support services for 

individuals and families with HIV disease. 

93.917 

HHS Social Services Block 

Grant 

To enable each State to furnish social services best 

suited to the needs of the individuals residing in the 

State. Federal block grant funds may be used to provide 

services directed toward one of the following five goals 

specified in the law: (1) to prevent, reduce, or eliminate 

dependency; (2) to achieve or maintain self-sufficiency; 

(3) to prevent neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children 

and adults; (4) to prevent or reduce inappropriate 

institutional care; and (5) to secure admission or referral 

for institutional care when other forms of care are not 

appropriate. Etc. 

93.667 

HHS Hurricane Katrina 

Relief 

To provide additional Federal payments under Katrina 

hurricane-related multi-State Section 1115 

Demonstrations to reimburse affected States for the 

nonfederal share of specified medical care hurricanerelated expenditures and associated administrative costs, 

and the total uncompensated care costs for affected 

States. Also, with respect to Katrina hurricane-related 

affected counties or parishes in Alabama, Louisiana and 

Mississippi, to provide the nonfederal share of medical 

care expenditures furnished to Title XIX and Title XXI 

individuals under existing State plans. In addition, if 

approved by the Secretary, funds may be used by the 

State to restore access to health care in Katrina impacted 

communities. 

93.776 

HHS HIV Emergency Relief 

Project Grants 

To provide direct financial assistance to eligible 

metropolitan areas and Transitional Grant Areas that 

have been the most severely affected by the HIV 

epidemic to develop, organize and operate programs 

that provide an effective, appropriate and cost efficient 

continuum of health care and support services for the 

individuals and families with HIV disease. 

93.914 

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HHS Grants to Provide 

Outpatient Early 

Intervention Services 

with Respect to HIV 

Disease 

To increase the capacity of entities that provide 

comprehensive primary care services to persons with 

HIV infection, or who are at-risk of infection, and to 

offer more early intervention services. The services will 

include increased counseling and testing, partner 

involvement in risk reduction, transmission prevention, 

appropriate primary care diagnostic and treatment 

services, and, as needed, case-management to ensure 

that individual service needs are met. A capacity 

development program provides assistance to 

organizations wishing to develop an expanded HIV 

program, particularly in rural and underserved areas and 

communities of color. 

93.918 

HHS Mental Health Disaster 

Assistance and 

Emergency Mental 

Health 

To provide supplemental emergency mental health 

counseling to individuals affected by major disasters, 

including the training of workers to provide such 

counseling. 

93.982 

HHS Maternal and Child 

Health Services Block 

Grant to the States 

To enable States to maintain and strengthen their 

leadership in planning, promoting, coordinating and 

evaluating health care for pregnant women, mothers, 

infants, and children and children with special health 

care needs in providing health services for mothers and 

children who do not have access to adequate health care 

93.994 

HHS BPHC Health Center 

Facility Development 

Business Consulting 

Hurricane relief. * 

HHS Emergency Systems for 

Advance Registration 

of Volunteer Health 

Professions 

Solicit volunteers to respond to the aftermath of 

hurricanes Katrina and Rita. 

* 

HHS IHS Emergency 

Services - Technical 

Assistance and 

Equipment Loans - 

Tribal Emergencies 

Preparedness, Response & Recovery. * 

HHS National Disaster 

Medical System 

(NDMS) Hospital 

Reimbursement 

Program 

To reimburse hospitals participating in the NDMS for 

authorized inpatient treatment provided to patients 

evacuated by NDMS. This is done to ensure hospital 

participation in the NDMS network. Practitioners 

furnishing care within such institutions are also 

reimbursed. 

* 

HHS National Practitioner 

Data Bank/ Healthcare 

Integrity and Protection 

Data Bank 

Assist with querying the Data Banks in relation to 

displaced practitioners re-locating due to Hurricane 

Katrina. 

* 

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HHS Technical Assistance to 

State Health 

Requirements and 

Doctors, Shortage 

Designation Branch 

Designate or redesignate underserved areas. * 

HUD Mortgage Insurance -

Homes 

To help people undertake home ownership. 14.117 

HUD Mortgage Insurance ­

Homes for Disaster 

Victims 

To help victims of a major disaster undertake 

homeownership on a sound basis. 

14.119 

HUD Mortgage Insurance --

Manufactured Home 

Parks 

To make possible the financing of construction or 

rehabilitation of manufactured home parks. 

14.127 

HUD Community 

Development Block 

Grants/Entitlement 

Grants 

To develop viable urban communities, by providing 

decent housing and a suitable living environment, and 

by expanding economic opportunities, principally for 

persons of low and moderate income. 

14.218 

HUD Community 

Development Block 

Grants/State's Program 

and Non-Entitlement 

Grants in Hawaii 

The primary objective of this program is the 

development of viable urban communities by providing 

decent housing, a suitable living environment, and 

expanding economic opportunities, principally for 

persons of low and moderate income. Each activity 

funded must meet one of the program's National 

Objectives by: Benefiting low and moderate income 

families; aiding in the prevention or elimination of 

slums or blight; or meeting other community 

development needs having a particular urgency because 

existing conditions pose a serious and immediate threat 

to the health or welfare of the community where other 

financial resources are not available. 

14.228 

HUD Home Investment 

Partnerships Program 

(1) To expand the supply of affordable housing, 

particularly rental housing, for low and very low income 

Americans; (2) to strengthen the abilities of State and 

local governments to design and implement strategies 

for achieving adequate supplies of decent, affordable 

housing; (3) to provide both financial and technical 

assistance to participating jurisdictions, including the 

development of model programs for developing 

affordable low income housing; and (4) to extend and 

strengthen partnerships among all levels of government 

and the private sector, including for-profit and nonprofit 

organizations, in the production and operation of 

affordable housing. 

14.239 

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HUD Community 

Development Block 

Grants - Section 108 

Loan Guarantees 

To provide communities with a source of financing for 

economic development, housing rehabilitation, public 

facilities, and large scale physical development projects. 

14.248 

HUD Single Family Property 

Disposition 

To sell the inventory of HUD-acquired properties in a 

manner that expands home ownership opportunities, 

strengthens neighborhoods and communities, and 

ensures a maximum return to the FHA mortgage 

insurance fund. 

14.311 

HUD Historically Black 

Colleges and 

Universities Program 

To assist Historically Black Colleges and Universities 

expand their role and effectiveness in addressing 

community development needs in their localities, 

including neighborhood revitalization, housing, and 

economic development, principally for person of lowmoderate income consistent with the purposes of Title I 

of the Housing and Community Development Act of 

1974 as amended. 

14.520 

HUD Section 8 Housing 

Choice Vouchers 

To aid very low income families in obtaining decent, 

safe, and sanitary rental housing. Etc. 

14.871 

HUD Public Housing Capital 

Fund 

The Capital Fund provides funds annually to Public 

Housing Agencies (PHAs) for capital and management 

activities, including modernization and development of 

public housing. The Capital Fund also permits PHAs to 

use Capital Funds for financing activities, including 

payments of debt service and customary financing costs, 

in standard PHA developments and in mixed-finance 

developments, which include Public Housing. 

14.872 

HUD Katrina Disaster 

Housing Assistance 

Program (KDHAP) 

The KDHAP was designed to provide up to 18 months 

of housing assistance to eligible families who were 

HUD-assisted prior to Hurricane Katrina. These 

payments are calculated at 100% of the fair market rent 

in any community in the country the evacuee selects, 

from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon. Nearly 

15,000 families have received KDHAP vouchers. 

* 

LSC Katrina Legal Aid 

Resource Center 

To provide a web-based clearinghouse of legal aid, pro 

bono and public defender information for persons 

affected by the hurricane and lawyers and advocates 

helping them. 

* 

NARA National Historical 

Publications and 

Records Grants 

To undertake a wide-range of activities related to the 

preservation, publication, and use of documentary 

sources relating to the history of the United States. 

89.003 

NARA Educational 

Information on Record 

Recovery and 

Preservation 

To provide information relating to emergency 

preparedness and recovering from a disaster. 

* 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

* No CFDA number identified. 

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DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

NARA Recover and Restore 

Paper Records 

To recover and restore paper records damaged by flood 

waters. 

* 

SBA Disaster Assistance 

Loans 

To provide loans to the victims of declared disasters for 

uninsured or otherwise uncompensated physical 

damage. 

59.008 

SBA Other SBA Loan 

Programs 

Businesses declined for disaster assistance can apply for 

other SBA loan programs (7A, 504, Express, Patriot, 

etc.) 

* 

SSA Social Security 

Disability Insurance 

To replace part of the earnings lost because of a 

physical or mental impairment, or a combination of 

impairments, severe enough to prevent a person from 

working. 

96.001 

SSA Social Security 

Survivors Insurance 

To replace part of the earnings lost to dependents 

because of the worker's death. 

96.004 

SSA Supplemental Security 

Income 

To ensure a minimum level of income to persons who 

have attained age 65 or are blind or disabled, and whose 

income and resources are below specified levels. 

96.006 

SSA Social Security - Work 

Incentives Planning 

and Assistance (WIPA) 

Program 

To comply with the Ticket-to-Work and Work Incentives 

Improvement Act which was passed in December 1999, 

and reauthorized by the Social Security Protection Act 

of 2004, which requires the SSA to establish a 

community-based work incentives planning and 

assistance program. The purpose of this Program is to 

disseminate accurate information to beneficiaries with 

disabilities (including transition-to-work aged youth) 

about work incentives programs, and issues related to 

such programs, to enable them to make informed 

choices about working and whether or when to assign 

their Ticket-to-Work, as well as how available work 

incentives can facilitate their transition into the 

workforce. The ultimate goal of the WIPA Program is to 

assist beneficiaries with disabilities succeed in their 

return to work efforts. 

96.008 

TREAS Savings Bond 

Replacement or 

Redemption 

Assist disaster victims by expediting replacement or 

redemption of U.S. Savings Bonds. 

* 

TREAS Taxes: Disaster 

Assistance Program 

(I-39) 

To provide free tax information and assistance to 

taxpayers whose property has been damaged or lost in a 

federally-declared disaster area. 

* 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

* No CFDA number identified 

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DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

TREAS Tax Refund: Excise 

Tax 

To provide Federal alcohol and tobacco excise tax 

refunds to businesses that have lost assets in a disaster. 

* 

TREAS Mutilated Currency 

Program 

To replace U.S. currency mutilated by/from a disaster. * 

TREAS New Markets Tax 

Credits Program 

Spur economic development in low-income areas. * 

USDA Tree Assistance 

Program 

This program provides assistance to tree, bush and vine 

owners who have trees, bushes or vines lost by a natural 

disaster. The statute (Public Law 108-83) authorizes 

payments only for eligible owners who actually replant 

or rehabilitate eligible trees, bushes and vines and who 

produce annual crops from trees for commercial 

purposes. 

10.082 

USDA Dairy Market Loss 

Assistance Program 

The purpose of this program is to provide benefits to 

dairy operations under Public Law 105-277, 112 Stat. 

2681; Sections 805 and 825 of Public Law 106-78; and 

section 805 of Public Law 106-387 only, in order to 

provide financial assistance to dairy operations in 

connection with normal milk production that is sold on 

the commercial market. 

10.084 

USDA Emergency 

Conservation Program 

To enable farmers to perform emergency conservation 

measures to control wind erosion on farmlands, to 

rehabilitate farmlands damaged by wind erosion, floods, 

hurricanes, or other natural disasters and to carry out 

emergency water conservation or water enhancing 

measures during periods of severe drought. 

10.054 

USDA Conservation Reserve 

Program 

To protect the Nation's long-term capability to produce 

food and fiber; to reduce soil erosion and sedimentation, 

improve water quality, and create a better habitat for 

wildlife 

10.069 

USDA Wetland Reserve 

Program (WRP) 

To assist landowners in restoring and protecting 

wetlands on eligible lands on which they agree to enter 

into a permanent or long-term easement, or a restoration 

cost-share agreement with the Secretary. The goal of 

WRP is to maximize wetland functions and values and 

wildlife benefits on every acre enrolled in the program. 

Total acreage enrollment limitation is 2,275,000 acres. 

10.072 

USDA Emergency Loans To assist established (owner or tenant) family farmers, 

ranchers and aquaculture operators with loans to cover 

losses resulting from major and/or natural disasters, 

which can be used for annual farm operating expenses, 

and for other essential needs necessary to return disaster 

victims' farming operations to a financially sound basis 

in order that they will be able to return to private 

sources of credit as soon as possible. 

10.404 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

* No CFDA number identified. 

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DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

USDA Farm Operating Loans To enable operators of not larger than family farms 

through the extension of credit and supervisory 

assistance, to make efficient use of their land, labor, and 

other resources, and to establish and maintain 

financially viable farming and ranching operations. 

10.406 

USDA Farm Ownership Loans To assist eligible farmers, ranchers, and aquaculture 

operators, including farming cooperatives, corporations, 

partnerships, and joint operations, through the extension 

of credit and supervisory assistance to: become owneroperators of not larger than family farms; make efficient 

use of the land, labor, and other resources; carry on 

sound and successful farming operations; and enable 

farm families to have a reasonable standard of living. 

10.407 

USDA Very Low to Moderate 

Income Housing Loan 

To assist very low, low-income, and moderate-income 

households to obtain modest, decent, safe, and sanitary 

housing for use as a permanent residence in rural areas. 

10.410 

USDA Rural Rental Housing 

Loans 

To provide economically designed and constructed 

rental and cooperative housing and related facilities 

suited for rural residents. 

10.415 

USDA Very Low Income 

Housing Repair Loans 

and Grants 

Section 504 loans and grants are intended to help very 

low-income owner-occupants in rural areas repair their 

properties. 

10.417 

USDA Rural Self-Help 

Housing Technical 

Assistance 

To provide Self-Help Technical Assistance Grants to 

provide financial assistance to qualified non-profit 

organizations and public bodies that will aid needy very 

low and low-income individuals and their families to 

build homes in rural areas by the self-help method. Any 

State, political subdivision, private or public non-profit 

corporation is eligible to apply. Section 523 Grants are 

used to pay salaries, rent, and office expenses of the 

non-profit organization. Pre-development grants up to 

$10,000 may be available to qualified organizations. 

10.420 

USDA Rural Rental 

Assistance Payments 

To reduce the tenant contribution paid by low-income 

families occupying eligible Rural Rental Housing, Rural 

Cooperative Housing, and Farm Labor Housing projects 

financed by the Rural Housing Service through its 

Sections 515, 514 and 516 loans and grants. 

10.427 

USDA Direct Housing - 

Natural Disaster Loans 

and Grants 

To assist qualified recipients to meet emergency 

assistance needs resulting from natural disaster. Funds 

are only available to the extent that funds are not 

provided by FEMA. For the purpose of administering 

these funds, a natural disaster will only include those 

counties identified by a Presidential declaration. 

10.444 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

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Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

USDA Direct Housing - 

Natural Disaster 

To assist qualified lower income rural families to meet 

emergency assistance needs resulting from natural 

disaster to buy, build, rehabilitate, or improve dwellings 

in rural areas. Funds are only available to the extent 

that funds are not provided by FEMA. For the purpose 

of administering these funds, a natural disaster will only 

include those areas identified by a Presidential 

declaration. 

10.445 

USDA Crop Insurance To promote the national welfare by improving the 

economic stability of agriculture through a sound 

system of crop insurance and providing the means for 

the research and experience helpful in devising and 

establishing such insurance. 

10.450 

USDA Noninsured Assistance To provide crop loss assistance comparable to the 

catastrophic risk protection level of crop insurance to 

producers of commercial crops or other agricultural 

commodities for which the catastrophic risk protection 

level of crop insurance is not available. 

10.451 

USDA Disaster Reserve 

Assistance 

To provide emergency assistance to eligible livestock 

owners, in a State, county, or area approved by the 

Secretary or designee, where because of disease, insect 

infestation, flood, drought, fire, hurricane, earthquake, 

hail storm, hot weather, cold weather, freeze, snow, ice, 

and winterkill, or other natural disaster, a livestock 

emergency has been determined to exist. 

10.452 

USDA Cooperative Extension 

Service 

To help people improve their lives and communities 

through an educational process that uses scientific 

knowledge focused on issues critical to the economic, 

agricultural, societal, health/safety, and environmental 

progress of all Americans. Identify and solve their 

farm, home, and community problems through the 

practical application of research findings of USDA and 

the land-grant colleges and Universities. The 

Cooperative Extension System is a future-oriented, selfrenewing, national educational network providing 

excellence in programs that focus on contemporary 

issues and needs of people. 

10.500 

USDA Supplemental Nutrition 

Assistance Program 

To improve diets of low-income households by 

increasing their food purchasing ability. 

10.551 

USDA Special Supplemental 

Nutrition Program for 

Women, Infants and 

Children 

To provide low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and 

postpartum women, infants, and children to age five 

determined to be at nutritional risk, at no cost, 

supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, and 

referrals to health and social services. 

10.557 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

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Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

USDA Water and Waste 

Disposal Systems for 

Rural Communities 

To provide basic human amenities, alleviate health 

hazards and promote the orderly growth of the rural 

areas of the Nation by meeting the need for new and 

improved rural water and waste disposal facilities. 

10.760 

USDA Technical Assistance 

and Training Grants 

To identify and evaluate solutions to water and waste 

disposal problems in rural areas; to assist applicants in 

preparing applications made in accordance with 7 CFR 

1780; to improve operation and maintenance of water 

and waste disposal facilities in rural areas. 

10.761 

USDA Solid Waste 

Management Grants 

To reduce or eliminate pollution of water resources and 

improve planning and management of solid waste 

disposal facilities in rural areas. 

10.762 

USDA Emergency Community 

Water Assistance 

Grants 

Through the Emergency Community Water Assistance 

Grant Program, the Rural Utilities Service is authorized 

to help rural residents who have experienced a 

significant decline in quantity or quality of water to 

obtain adequate quantities of water that meet the 

standards of the Safe Drinking Water Act. 

10.763 

USDA Community Facilities 

Loans and Grants 

To construct, enlarge, extend, or otherwise improve 

community facilities providing essential services to 

rural residents. 

10.766 

USDA Intermediary Relending 

Program 

To finance business facilities and community 

development. 

10.767 

USDA Business and Industry 

Loans 

To assist public, private, or cooperative organizations 

(profit or nonprofit), Indian tribes or individuals in rural 

areas to obtain quality loans for the purpose of 

improving, developing or financing business, industry, 

and employment and improving the economic and 

environmental climate in rural communities including 

pollution abatement and control. 

10.768 

USDA Rural Business 

Enterprise Grants 

To facilitate the development of small and emerging 

private business, industry, and related employment for 

improving the economy in rural communities. 

10.769 

USDA Rural Business 

Opportunity Grant 

To promote sustainable economic development in rural 

communities with exceptional needs. 

10.773 

USDA Renewable Energy 

System and Energy 

Efficiency 

Improvement Program 

To create a program to make direct loans, loan 

guarantees, and grants to agricultural producers (farmers 

and ranchers) and rural small businesses to help reduce 

energy costs and consumption and help meet the 

Nation's critical energy needs. 

10.775 

USDA Rural Electrification 

Loan and Loan 

Guarantees 

To assure that people in eligible rural areas have access 

to electric services comparable in reliability and quality 

to the rest of the Nation. 

10.850 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

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Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

USDA Rural Telephone Loans 

and Loan Guarantees 

To assure that people in eligible rural areas have access 

to telecommunications services comparable in 

reliability and quality to the rest of the Nation. 

10.851 

USDA Resource Conservation 

and Development 

To encourage and improve the capability of State and 

local units of government and local nonprofit 

organizations in rural areas to plan, develop and carry 

out programs for resource conservation and 

development. 

10.901 

USDA Soil Survey To produce and maintain up to date published soil 

surveys and other forms of soil survey databases of 

counties or other comparable size areas for widespread 

use by interested agencies, organizations, and 

individuals and to assist in the use of this information. 

10.903 

USDA Watershed Protection 

and Flood Prevention 

To provide technical and financial assistance in carrying 

out works of improvement to protect, develop, and 

utilize the land and water resources in watersheds. 

10.904 

USDA Watershed Surveys and 

Planning 

The Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, 

Public Law 83-566, established the Watershed Program 

(16 U.S.C. 1001-1011). Section 6 of the Act provided 

for the establishment of the River Basin Surveys and 

Investigation Program (16 U.S.C. 1006-1009). A 

separate appropriation funded these two programs until 

fiscal year 1996 when they were combined into a single 

appropriation, Watershed Surveys and Planning. Public 

Law 83-566 provides the authority for the Natural 

Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to cooperate 

with other Federal, State, and local agencies in making 

investigations and surveys of river basins as a basis for 

the development of coordinated water resource 

programs. River basin surveys and floodplain 

management studies provide local decision-makers with 

an inventory and analysis of the resource status and 

trends in their watershed, and the impact this has on the 

community. Etc. 

10.906 

USDA Snow Survey and 

Water Supply Forecasts 

To provide information on forthcoming seasonal water 

supplies from streams that derive most of their run off 

from snow melt. To help farm operators, rural 

communities, and municipalities use water-supply 

forecasts in managing water resources. To provide 

hydrometeorological data for regulating reservoir 

storage and managing stream flow. To provide soil 

moisture/temperature and climate data to support 

drought assessment, fire hazard assessment, wildlife 

management and climate change research. To obtain, 

evaluate and disseminate climate data in support of 

NRCS conservation activities including models. 

10.907 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 
 

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Disaster Assistance Programs by Department/Agency 

DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

USDA Environmental Quality 

Incentives Program 

Provide technical and financial assistance to eligible 

farmers and ranchers to address soil, water, and related 

natural resource concerns on their lands in an 

environmentally beneficial and cost-effective manner. 

This program provides assistance to farmers and 

ranchers in complying with Federal, State, and tribal 

environmental laws, and encourages environmental 

enhancement. The purpose of this program is achieved 

through the implementation of structural, vegetative, 

and land management practices on eligible land. This 

program is funded through the Commodity Credit 

Corporation (CCC). NRCS provides overall program 

administration and management 

10.912 

USDA Emergency Watershed 

Protection Program 

The objective of the Emergency Watershed Protection 

Program is to assist sponsors, landowners, and operators 

in implementing emergency recovery measures for 

runoff retardation and erosion prevention to relieve 

imminent hazards to life and property created by a 

natural disaster that causes a sudden impairment of a 

watershed. 

10.923 

USDA Aquaculture Grants Provides grants to states that suffered aquaculture losses 

due to the 2005 hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Ophelia, 

Rita and Wilma. 

* 

USDA Feed Indemnity 

Program 

Provides payments to eligible livestock owners and cash 

lessees who suffered feed losses or increased feed costs 

due to 2005 hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Ophelia, Rita, 

and Wilma. 

* 

USDA Hurricane Indemnity 

Program 

Provides funds to eligible agricultural producers who 

suffered crop losses due to 2005 hurricanes Dennis, 

Katrina, Ophelia, Rita, and Wilma. 

* 

USDA Livestock Indemnity 

Program 

Provides monetary assistance to eligible livestock 

owners and livestock contract growers, for livestock 

deaths that occurred due to 2005 hurricanes Dennis, 

Katrina, Ophelia, Rita, & Wilma. 

* 

USDA Alternative Storage CCC paid a one-time payment for alternative storage of 

commodities. This further eased pressure on producers 

to market commodities under adverse conditions. 

* 

USDA Barge Unloading CCC paid a one-time incentive to assist in the 

immediate unloading of barges of agricultural 

commodities in the New Orleans area. Once unloaded, 

the empty barges were available to begin moving new 

crop commodities. 

* 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

* No CFDA number identified. 

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DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

USDA Conservation 

Technical 

Assistance 

Conservation systems are to reduce erosion, improve soil and 

water quality, improve pasture and range condition, reduce 

upstream flooding, and improve woodlands. NRCS can 

collect, analyze, interpret, display, and disseminate 

information about the condition and trends of the Nation's soil 

and other natural resources so that people can make good 

decisions about resource use and about public policies for 

resource conservation. 

* 

USDA Disaster Debt SetAside Program FSA borrowers located in designated disaster areas or 

contiguous counties, who are unable to make their scheduled 

payments on any debt, may be authorized to have certain set 

asides. 

* 

USDA Transportation 

Differential 

To reduce stress on the Central Gulf transportation system, 

CCC paid a transportation differential to cover the costs of 

moving grain to other transportation and locations. This 

measure encouraged new routes for commodity movement. 

* 

USPS Information and 

Statistics 

Information and statistics. * 

VA Specially Adapted 

Housing for 

Disabled Veterans 

To help certain severely disabled veterans acquire a home, 

which is suitably adapted to meet the special needs of their 

disabilities. 

64.106 

VA Grants to States for 

Construction of 

State Home 

Facilities 

To assist States to acquire or construct State home facilities 

for furnishing domiciliary or nursing home care to veterans, 

and to expand, remodel, or alter existing buildings for 

furnishing domiciliary, nursing home, or hospital care to 

veterans in State homes. 

64.005 

VA Automobiles and 

Adaptive 

Equipment for 

Certain Disabled 

Veterans and 

Members of the 

Armed Forces 

To provide financial assistance to certain disabled 

servicepersons and veterans toward the purchase price of an 

automobile or other conveyance and an additional amount for 

adaptive equipment deemed necessary to insure the eligible 

person will be able to operate or make use of the automobile 

or other conveyance. To provide adaptive equipment only for 

certain other disabled veterans. 

64.100 

VA Veterans Housing -

Direct Loans for 

Certain Disabled 

Veterans 

To provide veterans who are eligible for a Specially Adapted 

Housing grant with loan directly from the VA in certain 

circumstances. 

64.118 

VA Housing Assistance 

- Veterans 

To provide temporary housing to displaced citizens. * 

VA Pharmaceuticals: 

Dispensing of 

Medication 

To improve the health status of veterans by encouraging the 

appropriate use of medications in a comprehensive medical 

care setting. 

* 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

* No CFDA number identified. 

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DEPT PROGRAM TITLE PURPOSE CFDA 

NUMBER 

VA Subsistence - 

Compensation and 

Pension 

To provide compensation and pension benefits and 

services for veterans, their dependents and survivors, 

including, but not limited to: service-connected 

compensation, DIC, non-service connected pension, 

burial and accrued benefits, guardianship and public 

contact services. 

* 

Data in this report is as of January 14, 2009. Website subject to updates; refer to www.cfda.gov for current information. 

* No CFDA number identified 

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Report Distribution 

Department of Homeland Security 

Secretary 

Acting Deputy Secretary 

Chief of Staff for Operations 

Chief of Staff for Policy 

Acting General Counsel 

Executive Secretariat 

Director, GAO/OIG Liaison Office 

Assistant Secretary for Office of Policy 

Assistant Secretary for Office of Public Affairs 

Assistant Secretary for Office of Legislative Affairs 

FEMA Acting Administrator 

FEMA Audit Liaison 

Federal Inspectors General 

Office of Management and Budget 

Chief, Homeland Security Branch 

DHS OIG Budget Examiner 

Congress 

Congressional Oversight and Appropriations Committees, as appropriate 

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