B. Eligible Subapplicants

A subapplicant is generally defined as a non-federal entity that receives a subaward from a pass-through entity (recipient) to carry out part of a federal program.^[74] This does not include an individual that is a beneficiary of such a program.

In general, which entity can be a subapplicant depends on the eligibility spelled out in the governing legislation or regulation of the HMA program under which assistance is sought.

Eligible subapplicants may include:

State agencies.
Local governments.
Federally recognized tribal governments.
Private nonprofit organizations (for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program [HMGP] and Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Post Fire [HMGP Post Fire] only).^[75]

As indicated in Part 4, individuals, businesses and certain private nonprofits are generally ineligible to directly apply for HMA. Applying for HMA happens through eligible subapplicants, who, in turn, submit a subapplication to applicants on behalf of individuals, businesses and private nonprofit organizations. This arrangement ensures consistency with the mitigation priorities established by state, local, tribal and territorial governments.

Table 3 highlights the eligibility of subapplicants under HMGP, HMGP Post Fire, BRIC and FMA.

Table 3: Eligible Subapplicants

Entity	HMGP	HMGP Post Fire	BRIC	FMA
Stage agencies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Local governments, including tribal governments*	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Federally recognized tribal government	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Private nonprofit organizations and institutions that own and operate a facility that provides an essential government service as defined in 44 CFR § 206.221(e)†	Yes	Yes	No	No
Qualifying conservation private nonprofit organization‡	Yes	Yes	No	No

* Local governments may include non-federally recognized tribes or, consistent with the definition of local government in 42 U.S.C. § 5122(8), may include any tribe, authorized tribal organization, or Alaska Native village or organization that is not federally recognized according to 25 U.S.C. § 479(a) et seq.

^† Private nonprofit organizations are defined in 44 CFR 206.221(f).

^‡ Limited to acquisition and demolition/relocation projects

Footnotes

74. 2 CFR § 200.1

75. For HMGP, refer to 44 CFR § 206.434(a); for the FMA program, refer to 44 CFR § 77.6; for HMGP and Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, refer to 44 CFR § 206.2(a)(16); for local governments, refer to 42 U.S.C. § 5122(8) and 44 CFR § 201.2; for private nonprofit organizations, refer to 44 CFR § 206.221(e).