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PRESS RELEASE. San Mateo County Public Works April 2025.
The County continues to research grant opportunities for long-term repair of Mirada Road. The County submitted a Notice of Interest for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant opportunity through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The County has been working with the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services in the development of the grant application for the past several weeks. The grant application would develop design alternatives, perform community outreach, develop a project design and include environmental clearance for the project, allowing us to seek further grant funding for construction.
However, on April 4, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security announced the cancellation of all BRIC 2024 sub applications, effective immediately. That announcement can be found here:
As a result, the County is now exploring alternative grant opportunities to support the long-term plan. Without grant funding, the project is currently on hold.
Release Date: April 4, 2025
Under Secretary Noem, DHS is eliminating waste, fraud and abuse
WASHINGTON — FEMA is ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and canceling all BRIC applications from Fiscal Years 2020-2023. If grant funds have not been distributed to states, tribes, territories and local communities, funds will be immediately returned either to the Disaster Relief Fund or the U.S. Treasury.
Statement Attributable to a FEMA Spokesperson:
“The BRIC program was yet another example of a wasteful and ineffective FEMA program. It was more concerned with political agendas than helping Americans affected by natural disasters. Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, we are committed to ensuring that Americans in crisis can get the help and resources they need.”
Approximately $882 million of funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be returned to the U.S. Treasury or reapportioned by Congress in the next fiscal year. The 2021 law made $1 billion available for BRIC over five years, $133 million to date has been provided for about 450 applications. FEMA estimates more than $3.6 billion will remain in the Disaster Relief Fund to assist with disaster response and recovery for communities and survivors.
Ending this program will help ensure that grant funding aligns with the President’s Executive Orders and Secretary Noem’s direction and best support states and local communities in disaster planning, response and recovery.
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