Drinking water upgrades for Mobridge, efficiency boosting software systems for Rapid City, a tornado shelter for Chancellor, and a water project in Junius, are among the South Dakota projects that now count as formerly funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
FEMA announced the axing of its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant program last month in a press release lambasting the Biden-era creation as “wasteful” and “politicized.”
The 2021 program aimed to direct $1 billion in funding toward infrastructure projects to help communities across the U.S. “reduce their hazard risk” as they “build capability and capacity.”…