Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant Program
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Program, is funded by FEMA and administered through a partnership with the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM). FDEM has the authority and responsibility for developing and maintaining a State Standard Hazard Mitigation Plan, reviewing the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program subapplications, recommending technically feasible and cost effective subapplications to FEMA and providing pass-thru funding for FEMA approved and awarded project grants to eligible subapplicants.
The FY 2024 Application Period is open for Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). FEMA’s Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is attached and can be found at https://www.grants.gov/.
The Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) is accepting eligible subapplicants for the BRIC program from the entities that submitted a Notice of Interest (NOI) form by FDEM's deadline (August 30, 2024, 5:00 PM EDT) for an eligible project. All subapplications must be submitted to FDEM via the FEMA GO application system on or before Monday, February 17, 2025 by 5:00 PM EST. Only complete subapplications will be accepted and reviewed. Please refer to the NOI feedback and required documentation received via e-mail from FDEM. This feedback and required documents must be included in the subapplication. If the feedback and required documents are not included in the subapplication, the subapplication will be deemed incomplete and will not be reviewed or considered for submission. Subapplications experiencing technical problems outside of their control must notify FDEM as soon as possible, before the application deadline and no later than 5:00 PM ET on Friday, February 14, 2025.
PLEASE NOTE: All property owners must contact their local government to apply. All property owners must have had an active NFIP Flood Insurance Policy in effect on or before January 6, 2025, to be eligible for this funding opportunity.
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Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Grant Application Resources
- FDEM FY 2023 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Application Period Announcement
- FY 2023 BRIC Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
- FY 2023 BRIC Notice Of Funding Opportunity Fact Sheet
- FEMA GO Registration Guidance
- Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) and Community Lifelines
- FEMA GO Subapplication Process Guide
- FEMA GO Subapplication Development User Manual
- FY 2022 FMA and BRIC Statewide Webinar Presentation
- FY 2022 FMA and BRIC Webinar Minutes
- FEMA HMA BRIC Technical Evaluation Criteria
- FEMA HMA BRIC Qualitative Evaluation Criteria
- FEMA GO Plan Subapplication
- FEMA GO Project Scoping Subapplication
- FEMA GO Project Subapplication
- FEMA HMA Cost Estimation Webinar Presentation
Eligible Subapplicants are:
- State Agencies
- Federally-Recognized Tribes
- Local Governments/Communities
- Federally-recognized Native American Tribal Governments
Local governments may include non-federally recognized tribes or, consistent with the definition of local government in 42 U.S.C. § 5122(8), may include any tribe, authorized tribal organization, or Alaska Native village or organization that is not federally recognized according to 25 U.S.C. § 479(a) et seq.
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program aims to categorically shift the federal focus away from reactive disaster spending and toward research-supported, proactive investment in community resilience. FEMA anticipates BRIC funding projects that demonstrate innovative approaches to partnerships, such as shared funding mechanisms, and/or project design. For example, an innovative project may bring multiple funding sources or in-kind resources from a range of private and public sector stakeholders or offer multiple benefits to a community in addition to the benefit of risk reduction.
Through BRIC, FEMA will continue to invest in a variety of mitigation activities with an added focus on infrastructure projects and Community Lifelines.
As appropriated by the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2019 (Pub. L. No. 116-6); Section 203(i) of the Stafford Act, as amended (Pub. L. No. 93-288) (42 U.S.C. § 5133), the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Grant Program provides resources to assist states, tribal governments, territories and local communities in their efforts to implement a sustained pre-disaster natural hazard mitigation program, as authorized by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended (Pub. L. No. 93-288) (42 U.S.C. § 5133) as implemented by Hazard Mitigation Assistance: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (FP:104-008-05).
Applicants and Subapplicants must have a FEMA approved mitigation plan as of the application deadline in order to apply for mitigation projects in accordance with Title 44 CFR Part 201.
- BRIC projects must be cost-effective, technically feasible, effective, and consistent with the goals of applicable FEMA-approved State and local multi-hazard mitigation plans.
- Eligible subapplications are awarded on a nationally competitive basis.
- Federal funding is available for up to 75 percent of the eligible activity cost.
- Small, impoverished communities may be eligible for up to a 90 percent federal cost share.
The traditional FEMA-approved software-based BCA Flood Modules to determine the cost effectiveness of a project must be used. Subapplicants must use a FEMA approved methodology to perform a BCA. Only project subapplications that demonstrate cost-effectiveness through a benefit cost ratio of 1.0 or greater will be considered. The BCA must be attached to the subapplicant's application. The FEMA approved BCA Toolkit, which includes the Flood Modules, may be downloaded at no cost at https://www.fema.gov/benefit-cost-analysis. The BCA Helpline may be contacted by telephone (855-540-6744) or via e-mail bchelpline@fema.dhs.gov.
FEMA has developed resources to assist subapplicants with project and planning subapplications. The resources can be found on the Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants web page.
Publications and tools for the BRIC program can be found in the links below:
State of Florida
Division of Emergency Management
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program
2555 Shumard Oak Boulevard
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2100
