Today’s announcement represents that continued commitment. “FEMA and the entire Biden-Harris Administration are using every lever at our disposal to ensure that we are better prepared for the threats we face today, along with the ones that will come tomorrow. “Communities across our nation are experiencing first-hand the devastating impacts of climate change and the related extreme weather events that follow-more energized hurricanes with deadlier storm surges, increased flooding, and a wildfire season that has become a year-long threat,” said Administrator Criswell. Recently, he announced that he is doubling it again, to a historic level of $2.3 billion – for Fiscal Year 2022 – available for states, local communities, tribes and territories to proactively reduce their vulnerability to flood, hurricanes, drought, wildfires, extreme heat, and other hazards, boosted by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Last year, President Biden doubled the funding available for the BRIC program. While we can’t eliminate the threats we face as a nation, we can and must build our resilience against those threats – and that is why we are making this announcement today – because, together, we are building climate resilience.” “Its impacts are being felt in real time and are felt most acutely by the nation’s most vulnerable communities. “Climate change poses a very real threat to the safety, security, and prosperity of the United States,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N.

Selections are from Fiscal Year 2021 funding round with $1 billion made available through BRIC and $160 million made available for Flood Mitigation Assistance. The selections include large resilience projects funded by the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) national competition and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) community-wide flood mitigation projects. Mayorkas, and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced the selections for $1.16 billion in climate resilience funding through two competitive grant programs to help communities across the nation enhance climate and disaster resiliency. WASHINGTON-Today, Vice President Kamala Harris, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N.

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