Once you have confirmed which subapplications to add to your application, you will also need to rank each subapplication to establish a priority for funding that will be considered by FEMA during its review process. The ranking of the subapplications differs, depending on the grant program to which you are applying.
Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) grant program: Because PDM is a competitive program, each subapplication is assigned a unique rank from 1 (highest priority) to x, where x is the total number of subapplications added to the application.
Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant program: Subapplications are assigned a priority rank of 1 (high), 2 (medium), or 3 (low).
You will be submitting your application to the FMA grant program. In our case, when considering the subapplications that our agency has approved, the Riverbend project subapplication should rank as a high priority and receive a rank of "1." The River City Floodplain Acquisition—Phase 1 subapplication receives a rank of "2," and the management costs subapplication for Columbia Emergency Management Agency receives a rank of "3."
