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FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities
FEMA's hazard mitigation grant program for proactive, pre-disaster resilience, funding states, territories, Tribal Nations, and local governments. VerisGov maps the structure and keeps the moving parts current.
At a glance
- Program
- Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC), a pre-disaster hazard mitigation grant program.
- Administering agency
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
- Statutory authority
- Section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended by Section 1234 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018.
- Funding mechanism
- Hazard mitigation grants funded by the pre-disaster mitigation set-aside drawn from the Disaster Relief Fund; the amount varies with disaster activity.
- Money flow
- FEMA awards to recipients (states, the District of Columbia, territories, Tribal Nations); local governments, communities, and special districts participate as subapplicants through those recipients; awards generally require a non-federal cost share.
- Who has a stake
- State and territorial emergency management and hazard mitigation offices, federally recognized Tribal Nations, local governments and special districts, and resilience and engineering firms.
What it is
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, known as BRIC, is a FEMA hazard mitigation grant program focused on reducing risk before disasters strike. It makes federal funds available for projects that increase resilience to natural hazards, shifting investment toward proactive mitigation rather than post-disaster recovery. It is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency within the Department of Homeland Security.
The program's statutory foundation is Section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, which authorizes pre-disaster hazard mitigation assistance. Section 1234 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 amended that section to create the pre-disaster mitigation set-aside that funds BRIC, and it expressly allowed funding to adopt and enforce up-to-date, hazard-resistant building codes. The set-aside is drawn from the Disaster Relief Fund, which is why the available amount in any given period depends on disaster activity rather than a fixed authorization.
BRIC uses an applicant and subapplicant structure. States, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and federally recognized Tribal Nations apply to FEMA as recipients, and local governments, communities, and special districts apply to those recipients as subapplicants. This program has been canceled and relaunched and its funding is volatile, so its open rounds and dollar amounts should be treated as current status rather than durable facts; what is durable is that it is a FEMA hazard mitigation grant program for pre-disaster resilience.
Key facts
- Program Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC), a pre-disaster hazard mitigation grant program.
- Administering agency Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
- Statutory authority Section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended by Section 1234 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018.
- Funding mechanism Hazard mitigation grants funded by the pre-disaster mitigation set-aside drawn from the Disaster Relief Fund; the amount varies with disaster activity.
- Money flow FEMA awards to recipients (states, the District of Columbia, territories, Tribal Nations); local governments, communities, and special districts participate as subapplicants through those recipients; awards generally require a non-federal cost share.
- Who has a stake State and territorial emergency management and hazard mitigation offices, federally recognized Tribal Nations, local governments and special districts, and resilience and engineering firms.
What it funds
- Capital projects that mitigate risk from natural hazards and increase community resilience
- Adoption and enforcement of up-to-date, hazard-resistant building codes
- Hazard mitigation planning and capability and capacity building
- Project scoping and technical assistance that develops mitigation projects
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- Current program status, including whether BRIC is active, canceled, or relaunched
- Current open funding rounds, application windows, and Notice of Funding Opportunity
- Available funding amount and the set-aside percentage drawn from the Disaster Relief Fund in effect
- Federal cost share, small-impoverished-community provisions, and any caps in effect
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- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- State and Tribal hazard mitigation offices
Answers
Frequently asked questions
What is BRIC?
A FEMA hazard mitigation grant program that funds pre-disaster resilience: projects and activities that reduce risk from natural hazards before a disaster occurs, rather than recovery afterward.
What law authorizes BRIC?
Section 203 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended by Section 1234 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018, which created the pre-disaster mitigation set-aside that funds it.
Who can receive BRIC funding?
States, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and federally recognized Tribal Nations apply as recipients, and local governments, communities, and special districts participate as subapplicants through those recipients.
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