Disaster Funding

Helping communities and counties impacted by natural disasters of the last two years. That's the focus of additional supplemental appropriations for disaster relief signed into law last June.

“Hurricane Michael and Florence, wildfires and other disasters.”

And according to USDA Rural Housing Service Administrator Bruce W. Lammers, with some of that, over 17 billion dollars in relief, 150 million actually, designated for grants to assist rural areas in recovery of community facilities damaged or destroyed by such disasters.

“We finance hospitals, community centers, jails. To be eligible for the grant, he project needs to be in a rural area as defined by our regs of 20,000 people or less and located in a county or a rural area of a reservation for Indian tribes with a major disaster declaration.” By the Federal Emergency Management Agency for 2018 or all of 2019, over 100 types of projects eligible for community facilities funding.