FEMA has opened $1.35 billion in resilience funding, $750 million from the BRIC program, and $600 million from the Flood Mitigation Assistance program.
This week, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced FEMA is making $1.35 billion available for two grant programs designed to help communities enhance resilience to the impacts of increasingly frequent and extreme weather events.
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) annual grant program is making $750 million available for projects that protect people and infrastructure from natural hazards and the effects of extreme weather events. The Flood Mitigation Assistance program is making $600 million available for projects that mitigate flood risks facing homes and communities across the nation.
“FEMA is excited to support our state, tribal, territorial and local partners advance their resilience through these two grant programs,” said FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has enabled the agency to fund more projects allowing communities across the country to improve their resilience to more frequent and extreme weather events.”
The funding offered through these programs can be used by communities to better understand disaster risk and vulnerability, conduct community-driven resilience and hazard mitigation planning and design and implement transformational projects to make communities safer and more resilient.
