FEMA encourages potential Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) applicants to begin gathering information now for the upcoming fiscal year 2024 BRIC grant cycle. While the official funding opportunity and application requirements will be announced later in the year, we are providing this information on priorities and areas of focus now to help communities jumpstart their application planning.
On Sept. 9, 2024, FEMA’s Federal Flood Risk Management Standard and new policy is effective. FEMA plans to incorporate Updates to the Floodplain Management and Protection of Wetlands Regulations To Implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard into the upcoming funding cycle.
Key Information
- FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program provides funds to help state, local, tribal and territorial governments address high-level current and future risks to natural hazards.
- FEMA is providing this advanced information on program priorities and areas of focus so that communities can get started on preparing for the upcoming grant cycle. Communities should keep in mind that the final funding requirements are subject to change, but will generally reflect the following:
- National Competition Technical and Qualitative Evaluation Criteria: The National Competition will continue and the point scoring criteria is generally not changing.
- State or Territory Allocation Amounts: Up to $2 million per applicant, maximum allocation covering all activities and projects, including management costs. At least $1.5 million must be spent on Capacity & Capabilities Building activities. These activities include building codes, project scoping, hazard mitigation planning and related activities and partnerships.
- State or Territory Building Codes Plus-up: Up to $2 million per applicant for building code adoption and enforcement activities.
- Tribal Set-Aside and Building Code Plus-Up: FEMA will continue the Tribal set-aside of $50 million for mitigation projects and Capability and Capacity Building (C&CB) activities and Tribal building code plus up of $25 million.
- Community Disaster Resilience Zone (CDRZ) Allocation: In this grant cycle, there will no longer be a requirement that a minimum of $400,000 from the state and territorial allocations must benefit CDRZs.
- Project Scoping Activities: Assign up to 10% of the national competition funding for project scoping activities and no limit on project scoping subapplications. Also, project scoping activities are exempt from the Hazard Mitigation Plan requirement for subapplicants.
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