FEMA Reopens $1B Resilience Fund: Rural Alaska Worries

0:00It's March 30th. I'm Cory with the story, and this is Anchorage News today. Your AI-powered local news. FEMA just reopened applications for its building resilient infrastructure and communities program, with $1 billion up for graphs to help. States, local governments, and tribes, fight fires, floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes. A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled last year that FEMA broke the law by canceling the program, so now it's back after 20 states sued to bring. It all mine. Villages in western Alaska, slammed hard by the remnants of typhoon halong, are eyeing the funds big time places like Quiggling Oak and Kipnuck voted to. Relocate after losing homes to flooding and erosion, and they were counting on this cash before the shutdown hit. But folks there worry the new rules won't fit their world. FEMA shifted to Quick Start, ready to build projects only, ditching phased work, planning, grants, and technical help that rural spots barged in materials for over multiple seasons. Applications closed late July,

1:03and with other federal grants drying up, competitions fierce for these resilience bucks that could save lives and cut. Disaster calls down the line.