The Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund (ESHPF) program supports recovery, and related expenses, for historic and cultural resources in areas impacted by natural disasters that have received a major disaster declaration pursuant to the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (Stafford Act).
Pursuant to Public Law 118-158, $48,000,000 will be awarded under the ESHPF grant program for necessary expenses related to the consequences of natural disasters occurring in calendar years 2023 and 202 4. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and do not require non-Federal match.There are separate funding announcements, one for capacity grants to State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices and another for physical preservation projects.
Funding announcement P25AS00257 is for capacity needed by State and Tribal Historic Preservation Offices to complete compliance activities and for in-house, non-construction projects (i.e.
survey, planning) in areas with major disaster declarations within their jurisdictions only; P25AS00489 is for States, Tribes, local governments, and nonprofits for defined physical preservation projects (including reconstruction), with documented damage from major disaster declarations within their jurisdictions.
Please ensure you apply under the correct opportunity number for your project.