The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program makes federal funds available to states, U.S territories, Indian tribal governments, and local communities for pre-disaster mitigation activities.
Donor Name: Department of Homeland Security – FEMA
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/27/2023
Size of the Grant: up to $50,000,000
Grant Duration: 36 months
Details:
Objectives
With a general focus on disasters, risks, and hazards, including those associated with climate change, the guiding principles of the program are to:
- support state and local governments, tribes, and territories through capability- and capacity-building to enable them to identify mitigation actions and implement projects that reduce risks posed by natural hazards;
- encourage and enable innovation while allowing flexibility, consistency, and effectiveness;
- promote partnerships and enable high-impact investments to reduce risk from natural hazards with a focus on critical services and facilities, public infrastructure, public safety, public health, and communities;
- provide an opportunity to reduce future losses and minimize impacts on the Disaster Relief Fund;
- promote equity, including by helping members of overburdened and underserved groups and prioritizing 40 percent of the benefits to disadvantaged communities as referenced in Executive Order (EO) 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad in line with the Administration’s Justice40 Initiative; and
- support the adoption and enforcement of building codes, standards, and policies that will protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the public, taking into account future conditions, prominently including the effects of climate change, and have long-lasting impacts on community risk reduction, including for critical services and facilities and for future disaster costs.
Priorities
For FY 2022, the priorities for the program are to incentivize natural hazard risk reduction activities that mitigate risk to public infrastructure and disadvantaged communities as referenced in EO 14008; incorporate nature-based solutions including those designed to reduce carbon emissions; enhance climate resilience and adaptation; and increase funding to applicants that facilitate the adoption and enforcement of the latest published editions of building codes. BRIC encourages hazard mitigation projects that meet multiple program priorities.
Funding Information
- State/Territory Maximum Allocation & Activity Caps: The maximum allocation for a state or territory under this category is $2,000,000, covering all activities/projects.
- Tribal Set-Aside Activity Caps: The combined cost for any C&CB activities under the Tribal Set-Aside must not exceed $2,000,000 federal cost share per applicant.
- National Competition Cap: Applicants may submit an unlimited number of hazard mitigation project subapplications each valued up to $50,000,000 federal share to the national competition.
- Projected Period of Performance End Date(s): 36 months from date of the award unless otherwise approved by FEMA.
Eligibility Criteria
- States
- District of Columbia
- U.S. territories
- Federally recognized Tribal governments
- Each state, territory, the District of Columbia, and federally recognized Tribal government shall designate one agency to serve as the applicant for BRIC funding. The designee is strongly encouraged to conduct outreach with disadvantaged communities as referenced in EO 14008 prior to and during the application process. Each applicant’s designated agency may submit only one BRIC grant application to FEMA. Subapplications under which two or more entities would carry out the award are eligible, such as a multi-state or multi-Tribal initiative; however, only one entity may be the applicant with primary responsibility for carrying out the award.
- Communities, including local governments, cities, townships, counties, special district governments, and Tribal governments (including federally recognized Tribal governments who choose to apply as subapplicants) are considered subapplicants and must submit subapplications for financial assistance to their state/territory/Tribal Applicant agency.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
