Entities eligible to apply to the HMA programs include the emergency management agency or a similar office of the 50 states (e.g., the office that has primary emergency management or floodplain management responsibility), the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and federally recognized tribal governments, including Alaska Native villages and organizations. Each state, commonwealth, federally recognized tribal government[73] (including Alaska Native villages and organizations) or territory must designate one agency to serve as the applicant for each HMA program. Alaska Native corporations are ineligible, as they are privately owned.
73. The term "Indian tribal government" means the governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe under the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 (Section 102 of the Stafford Act, 42 United States Code (U.S.C.) § 5122(6)). This does not include Alaska Native corporations, the ownership of which is vested in private individuals. (Also refer to 44 CFR § 201.2 definitions, referring to 25 U.S.C. § 479a.).