With less than a month remaining before applications close, tribal leaders are encouraging Native nations to pursue $75 million reserved exclusively for tribes through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program.
The tribal funding is part of FEMA’s $1 billion BRIC funding opportunity for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, which reopened this year following a federal court order requiring the agency to restart the program.
The Native American Code Officials organization, a sovereign chapter of the International Code Council, hosted a June 23 webinar outlining the application process and featuring tribal officials who have successfully used BRIC funding to strengthen infrastructure and disaster resilience for their tribes. The session supplemented the FEMA’s webinar by focusing on tribal perspectives, including lessons…
