§ 206.431 - Definitions.

§ 206.431 Definitions.

Cross Reference

Link to an amendment published at 86 FR 50676, Sept. 10, 2021.

Cross Reference

The effective date of this amendment was corrected to read Oct. 1, 2021, at 86 FR 51832, Sept. 17, 2021.

Activity means any mitigation measure, project, or action proposed to reduce risk of future damage, hardship, loss or suffering from disasters.

Applicant means the non-Federal entity consisting of a State agency, local government, Indian tribal government, or eligible private nonprofit organization, submitting an application to the grantee for assistance under the HMGP. or Indian Tribal government, applying to FEMA for a Federal award under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. Upon award, the applicant becomes the recipient and may also be a pass-through entity.

Enhanced State Mitigation Plan is the hazard mitigation plan approved under 44 CFR part 201 as a condition of receiving increased funding under the HMGP.

Grant application means the request to FEMA for HMGP funding, as outlined in § 206.436, by a State or tribal Tribal government that will act as granteerecipient.

Grant award means total of Federal and non-Federal contributions to complete the approved scope of work.

Grantee means the government to which a grant is awarded and which is accountable for the use of the funds provided. The grantee is the entire legal entity even if only a particular component of the entity is designated in the grant award document. Generally, the State for which the major disaster is declared is the grantee. However, an

Indian

tribal government may choose to be a grantee, or it may act as a subgrantee under the State. An Indian tribal government acting as a grantee will assume the responsibilities of a “state”, under this subpart, for the purposes of administering the grant.

Indian Tribal government means any Federally recognized governing body of an Indian or Alaska Native Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian Tribe under the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C. 479a5131. This does not include Alaska Native corporations, the ownership of which is vested in private individuals. Indian Tribal governments have the option to apply as an applicant or subapplicant.

Local Mitigation Plan is the hazard mitigation plan required of a local government acting as a subgrantee subrecipient as a condition of receiving a project subgrant subaward under the HMGP as outlined in 44 CFR 201.6.

Pass-through entity means a recipient that provides a subaward to a subrecipient.

Recipient means the State or Indian Tribal government that receives a Federal award directly from FEMA. A recipient may also be a pass-through entity. The term recipient does not include subrecipients. The recipient is the entire legal entity even if only a particular component of the entity is designated in the grant award document. Generally, the State is the recipient. However, an Indian Tribal government may choose to be a recipient, or may act as a subrecipient under the State. An Indian Tribal government acting as recipient will assume the responsibilities of a “State”, as described in this part, for the purposes of administering the grant.

Standard State Mitigation Plan is the hazard mitigation plan approved under 44 CFR part 201, as a condition of receiving Stafford Act assistance as outlined in § 201.4 of this chapter.

State Administrative Plan for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program means the plan developed by the State to describe the procedures for administration of the HMGP.

Subgrant means an award of financial assistance under a grant by a grantee to an eligible subgrantee.

Subgrant

Subapplicant means the State agency, local government, eligible private nonprofit organization, or Indian Tribal government submitting a subapplication to the applicant for financial assistance under HMGP. Upon award, the subapplicant becomes the subrecipient.

Subaward means an award provided by a pass-through entity to a subrecipient for the subrecipient to carry out part of a Federal award.

Subaward application means the request to the

grantee

recipient for HMGP funding by the eligible

subgrantee

subrecipient, as outlined in § 206.436.

Subgrantee

Subrecipient means the government or other legal entity to which a

subgrant

subaward is awarded and which is accountable to the

grantee

recipient for the use of the funds provided.

Subgrantees

Subrecipients can be a State agency, local government, private

non-profit organizations

nonprofit organization, or Indian

tribal

Tribal government as outlined in § 206.433. Indian

tribal

Tribal governments acting as a

subgrantee

subrecipient are accountable to the State

grantee

recipient.

Tribal Mitigation Plan is the hazard mitigation plan required of an Indian Tribal government acting as a grantee recipient or subgrantee subrecipient as a condition of receiving a project grant award or subgrant subaward under the HMGP as outlined in 44 CFR 201.7.

[67 86 FR 8852, Feb. 26, 2002, as amended at 74 FR 47482, 50676, Sept. 16, 2009; 74 FR 60214, Nov. 20, 200910, 2021]