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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program is designed to support state, territorial, and local governments
and federally recognized tribes in their efforts to undertake hazard mitigation projects to reduce risks stemming from natural hazards and disasters. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">The purpose of the BRIC
grant program is to provide a consistent, sustainable source of federal pre-disaster funding to shift the focus away from post-disaster recovery spending by building community resilience before future hazards and disasters occur. </span></p>
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FEMA <b><span style="font-weight:normal">announced the BRIC funding for Fiscal Year 2021 will total $1.6 billion.</span></b> <span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; font-size:14.6667px">This
round of funding aligns with the environmental justice mandates of federal </span><a href="https://www.adaptationclearinghouse.org/resources/executive-order-14008-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad.html" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; font-size:14.6667px">Executive
Order 14008</a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; font-size:14.6667px"> by incorporating metrics that prioritize assistance in disadvantaged
communities. Economically disadvantaged rural areas are eligible for a higher federal cost share on projects (90 percent federal, instead of 25 percent), and projects can earn extra consideration for providing community-wide benefits to disadvantaged communities. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">ELIGIBILITY: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">BRIC funding is available on an annual basis in states that have received a presidential disaster
declaration in the past seven years from the date when FEMA issues a Notice of Funding Opportunity. E</span></span><span style="margin:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">ligible state and local grantees should check with their
State Hazard Mitigation Offices or departments to inquire whether there are additional requirements or earlier deadlines for project proposals or applications set by their own states that may differ from the federal deadlines. </span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Then,
a state’s hazard mitigation office or department is responsible for compiling all subapplications into a single grant application that will be submitted to FEMA. Applicants rank and prioritize each subapplication within the larger application to FEMA.</span><br>
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<span style="color:black; background:white">ELIGIBLE USES: </span><span style="font-size:11pt">BRIC funds can be used for "capability- and capacity-building" activities (i.e., building codes activities, partnerships, project scoping, and planning and planning-related
activities), hazard mitigation projects, and project management costs. FEMA can also fund projects that utilize innovative project designs and/or partnerships. To be eligible for BRIC funding, projects must:</span></p>
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<li>be cost-effective (according to FEMA’s Benefit-Cost Analysis requirements); </li><li>decrease risk and impacts of future potential natural hazards; </li><li>meet the 2015 or 2018 International Building Codes; </li><li>be consistent with the applicant's FEMA-approved hazard mitigation plans; and
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APPLICATION PERIOD: The application period for new funding opens on September 30, 2021 and closes on January 28, 2022 at 3:00 P.M. ET</p>
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<span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); line-height:normal; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">More information: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); line-height:normal; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">FEMA Announcement: https://www.adaptationclearinghouse.org/resources/fema-building-resilient-infrastructure-and-communities-bric-grant-program.html</span><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); line-height:normal; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">Notice of Funding Opportunity: </span><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_nofo-fiscal-year-2021-building-resilient-infrastructure.pdf</span><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">Native Plant Resources for Resilience (below are some resources the PCA pulled together to help connect this grant to native plants. Feel free to
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<li><a href="https://www.cakex.org/" title="https://www.cakex.org/"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange</span></a></li><li><a href="https://www.adaptationclearinghouse.org/" title="https://www.adaptationclearinghouse.org/"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Adaptation Clearinghouse</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">
(search on: native plants)</span></li><li><a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-08/documents/green-infrastructure.pdf" title="https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-08/documents/green-infrastructure.pdf"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Enhancing
Sustainable Communities with Green Infrastructure</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"> (e.g., search on: native plants; and: restor)</span></li><li style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span><a href="https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/nature-based-solutions-disasters" title="https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/nature-based-solutions-disasters"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Nature
Based Solutions to Disaster</span></a></span></li></ul>
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