CA AJR11

Urges the President and Congress to immediately restore full funding for FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, which was terminated on April 4, 2025

California stands to lose up to $870 million in federal BRIC funding across 35 hazard mitigation projects due to FEMA's cancellation of applications from fiscal years 2020-2023

Affected California projects include wildfire mitigation in Napa ($35 million), Sonoma ($37 million), and Mendocino ($37.9 million) counties; dam seismic retrofits in Paradise ($37.5 million); and coastal resilience projects in San Francisco ($50 million) and Pacifica ($50 million)

FEMA also canceled the fiscal year 2024 funding opportunity, which would have allocated $750 million in grants nationally

The BRIC program, established in fiscal year 2020 under the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018, provides grants to reduce natural hazard risks, support nature-based solutions, and enhance climate resilience for states, tribes, and local governments