The Federal Emergency Management Agency is cutting more than $325 million in funding intended for “critical” infrastructure and resilience projects in New York state, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday.
Much of the funding — which the state would have received through FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program — was allocated for flood mitigation efforts, Hochul said in a release.
What You Need To Know
- FEMA is cutting more than $325 million in funding intended for infrastructure and resilience projects in New York state, Gov. Kathy Hochul said
- Much of the funding was allocated for flood mitigation efforts, Hochul said, including projects in Central Harlem and East Elmhurst
- Projects in Westchester County, Buffalo and the Albany area are also set to lose funding, the governor said.
FEMA last week said it was ending the program, which has been used by communities across the country to pay for projects designed to help them prepare for natural disasters like flooding and fires…