Federal grant programs / Department of the Interior

USGS Cooperative Landslide Hazard Mapping and Assessment Program (15.821)

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$2.1 million
• Grant awards21
• Typical award$70,161
• Awarded in FY 2025$1.1 million
• Size rank1753 of 1824
• Type of assistanceGrant

Key findings

• It is the 1753rd largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 15 largest recipients received 100% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 14 states and territories.

What the program funds

To support risk communication, planning and coordination, mapping and assessments, and data collection of landslide hazards in order to develop information, knowledge, and methods that leads to the reduction of losses from landslides and increase in public safety. Specific objectives and research tasks identified as measures of progress towards the goals of these program elements are described in greater detail in Program Announcements posted to Grants.gov.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

What the money can and cannot pay for

Recipients will use funding to cover overhead or administrative costs to fulfill its obligations under the cooperative agreement, as well as salary and benefits for enrollees. Overhead or administrative costs may include payroll and benefits management, required reporting, and providing interactive portal for enrollee supervisors, among others. Authorizing legislation (P.L. 116-94, Sec. 111) specifies that Program activities may not: (1) result in the displacement of individuals currently employed by the Department of the Interior, including partial displacement through reduction of non-overtime hours, wages, or employment benefits; (2) result in the use of an individual under the Department of the Interior Experienced Services Program for a job or function in a case in which a Federal employee is in a layoff status from the same or substantially equivalent job within the Department; or (3) affect existing contracts for services.

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Priority will be given to proposals that not less than 50 percent of the total cost of which is matched by non-Federal sources.MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

90-days after posting the Program Announcement.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Past Fiscal Year (2024): Range: $10,000 to $299,250, average: $110,539 Current Fiscal Year (2025): Range: $10,000 to $248,573, average: $91,440 Budget Estimated Fiscal Year (2026): Projected range: $10,000 to $250,000 *FY 2026 estimated funding is provided through grant program carryover; meaning, that FY 2025 allocation will cover the FY 2026 grants.

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: Landslide inventory mapping using lidar and Orthoimagery, InSAR study of landslide prone highway corridors, development of landslide educational material and awareness guides for the public, post-wildfire debris flow rates on alluvial fansFiscal Year2026: Program has not yet selected projects for funding

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

State and local governments received 75% of the money, colleges and universities 25%.

By state

No state received $1 million or 10 awards from this program, so it has no state pages.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.