EDA’s Disaster Supplemental Funding can repair infrastructure damaged by flooding, conduct vulnerability assessments to identify future flood risks, fortify infrastructure against current and future flood risks, access revolving loan funds, build local capacity through resilience coordinators, and engage the community to create a collective vision for economic resilience.

	Allows in-kind services to contribute toward nonfederal cost share requirements
	Requires a Presidential Disaster Declaration

Application cycle: EDA opened applications in April 2023, will accept applications on a rolling basis.

Summary: Communities impacted by Presidentially Declared Disasters may apply for multi-million-dollar grants through the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Disaster Supplemental Funding. $480 million in Disaster Supplemental Funding is available for communities impacted by Hurricanes Ian and Fiona, wildfires, flooding, and all Presidentially-declared major natural disasters in 2021 and 2022. Communities can use these funds to plan and implement resilience projects to increase their ability to recover and build back stronger from natural disasters. In addition, communities can leverage grant dollars to capitalize on revolving loan funds to further fuel their economic recovery. Competitive applications will integrate resilience principles into the project to reduce future disaster-related losses and improve the capacity of the community and region to recover more quickly from future disasters.

Eligible applicants: State, county, city or other political subdivision of a State, Indian Tribes, Economic Development Districts, institution of higher education, public or private nonprofit organization acting in cooperation with a political subdivision of a State.

Eligible activities: Construction activities, such as restoring damaged infrastructure, enhancing existing infrastructure, and building new infrastructure, including high performance and resilient infrastructure. Other activities include economic recovery, strategic planning, public works construction, and the implementation of disaster recovery strategies. Communities can also use grant dollars to access revolving loan funds. Examples of eligible activities include efforts to:

• Diversify a region’s economic base, such as by creating jobs in industries that help communities recover from and become more resilient to disasters
• Engage the community in comprehensive planning to define and implement a collective vision for economic recovery and resiliency
• Build local capacity, such as through recovery/resiliency coordinators
• Conduct vulnerability assessments to identify disaster risks to economic assets, infrastructure, and industry and businesses, and planning, design, and construction projects to reduce these risks
• Plan, design, and ultimately place industrial parks and critical economic development infrastructure in more resilient locations.

Funding: Varies. EDA makes awards based on the specific circumstances of proposed projects. For example, Port Aransas, Texas (population of fewer than 5,000), received $5 million in Disaster Supplemental Funding for recovery and mitigation efforts to repair multiple buildings and to prepare for future disasters by installing a new seawater system on the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute Campus following Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Cost share: 

• In general, 80% federal / 20% local.
• EDA will consider on a case-by-case basis whether the circumstances of a proposed project warrant a federal cost share in excess of 80%.
• EDA may establish a maximum investment rate of up to 100% for projects of Indian Tribes.

Application process: 

• Starting April 6, 2023, applications were no longer accepted on Grants.gov, and will only be accepted through EDGE (sfgrants.eda.gov). 
• For more information, visit EDA’s website.
• EDA plans to accept proposals on a rolling basis until all funds are obligated; EDA anticipates it will begin to make awards in August 2023.
• EDA encourages the submission of applications based on long-term, regionally oriented, coordinated, and collaborative economic development or redevelopment strategies that foster economic growth and resilience. EDA will regard applications that are substantively supported by such strategies as more competitive.