Various grants and funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will soon be made available to the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n
Without disclosing an exact amount, FEMA coordinating officer Stephen M. DeBlasio Sr. said a grant will be awarded for long-term disaster case management.<\/p>\n
\u201cSoon we will be awarding a grant to the CNMI government and then they will be able to have a provider do a longer disaster case management,\u201d DeBlasio told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n
He said the grant is currently under congressional review.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now it\u2019s under congressional review because it\u2019s over a million dollars. Anything over a million dollars goes to congressional review,\u201d DeBlasio said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not an approval process; that\u2019s our call to make. But they just need to know before we push it out publicly,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
DeBlasio said the grant information may be released as soon as Monday.<\/p>\n
Currently, FEMA has an interagency agreement with the American Red Cross NMI Chapter with their immediate disaster case management.<\/p>\n
404 mitigation grant<\/strong> Unlike the 406 mitigation program, which enables infrastructures that had typhoon-related damage to rebuild stronger, the 404 mitigation funds can be applied on all three islands of the CNMI and even to projects not related to the disaster.<\/p>\n According to DeBlasio, the grant is based on a percentage\u2014about 15 percent\u2014of the total expenditure of the disaster.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be about $13 million that will be presented to the CNMI government and they will pick projects not related to damage experienced from Soudelor. It doesn\u2019t have to be disaster-related,\u201d DeBlasio said.<\/p>\n He said the funding could go on for years and doesn\u2019t have to be immediately spent.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are already looking at projects. What they do is they get a notice of intent from the applicant who applies through the CNMI government, and the CNMI government reviews the projects and they make decisions on what projects they want to fund and there is a cost-share, which will be 10 percent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Various grants and funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will soon be made available…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,493,38],"class_list":["post-216205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-fema","tag-saipan-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnother funding that will be available to the CNMI government is the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program,\u00a0which is authorized under\u00a0Section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.<\/p>\n