The Federal Emergency Management Agency is quietly scrapping a program designed to encourage communities to rebuild stronger infrastructure after disasters.
FEMA officials directed staff to rescind a cost-sharing policy that provides more federal dollars to states and other jurisdictions that invest in mitigation measures and more resilient building standards after a disaster, according to FEMA officials who spoke anonymously to discuss internal operations. Bloomberg Government first reported on the plan.
FEMA established the provision, known as the Public Assistance Mitigation Cost Share Incentives Policy, late last year to carry out a 2018 law that boosted incentives for communities to ...
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