WLOX.com aired a story about the Oil Spill Community Forum that the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium hosted yesterday in Biloxi. Sounds like it was a success. “Coast residents learn more about the giant oil spill“, (WLOX.com)
Tag Archives | funding & assistance
New Funding Opportunity for Habitat Restoration
Posted on May 12, 2010
Via the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management’s always useful CZ-Mail: The Nature Conservancy (TNC), in partnership with NOAA’s Community-Based Restoration Program, is seeking proposals for projects at TNC priority sites throughout the United States and its territories to restore or enhance estuarine, marine, and anadromous species and their habitats. For details, see the NOAA/TNC […]
County Uses FEMA Funds for Innovative Infrastructure Reconstruction
Posted on May 11, 2010
Good case study from Arkansas on a county using FEMA Public Assistance (PA) 406 Mitigation funds to pay for post-storm recovery using a relatively innovative technique: When technical advice from a Public Assistance Specialist recommended using a geo-textile to stabilize the embankment and make the road more resilient once repairs were completed, Lafayette County’s Emergency […]
Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund Announced
Posted on May 3, 2010
The Greater New Orleans Foundation has announced the launch of Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund: As we learned with the Valdez oil spill in Alaska in 1989, there will be long and short-term effects. The Greater New Orleans Foundation administers the Environmental Fund, one of the region’s largest philanthropic funds solely dedicated to addressing the […]
National Flood Insurance Program Expires [UPDATED]
Posted on March 11, 2010
[ORIGINAL MARCH 1 POST]: Nothing to panic about (we don’t think), but the US Senate failed to pass a reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). As a result, the NFIP officially expired last night. FEMA, meanwhile, released an announcement last Friday expressing its confidence that the program will be reauthorized when the Senate […]
FEMA Grants Conference Call—February 5
Posted on January 28, 2010
A friend just passed this announcement our way: The DHS Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives would like to connect you to some of our colleagues in FEMA and share information on specific grant programs to strengthen your resilience against hazards. The call will provide an overview of four programs: Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) […]
FEMA May Forgive Some Katrina/Rita Loans
Posted on January 22, 2010
Briefly, FEMA has announced a loan forgiveness program for government agencies that received money after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Under the new regulations, local governments that received Community Disaster Loans from FEMA can apply to have all or part of the loans erased if its revenues in the 36 months after the two major storms […]
DHS Releases Grant Guidance for 2010
Posted on December 15, 2009
The folks over at Emergency Management have posted a good summary of the newly released 2010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Grant Guidance. While the bulk of the $2.7 billion is targeted at terrorism-related security (this is DHS, after all), there’s plenty here for those looking for funding to protect coastal communities from weather and […]
FEMA's Fast-Track Dispute Resolution for Katrina Clean-Up Not Popular?
Posted on December 2, 2009
When the Federal Government modified The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals in August, their goal was to: “. . . resolve disputes between applicants and the Federal Emergency Management Agency as to funding for public assistance applications arising from Hurricane Katrina and Rita damage.” The quick version? The special arbitration panel hears from all sides, […]
FEMA Clarifies Sand Replacement and Public Assistance Funding
Posted on November 20, 2009
FEMA has released a 4-page PDF called “Eligible Sand Replacement on Public Beaches” which clarifies the availability of public assistance funding for the replacement of sand on damaged public beaches. Briefly? Under certain conditions, funding may be available for both emergency and permanent work, but it needs to meet certain requirements and not be in […]