April 21, 2025

On April 4, 2025, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced they are ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and cancelling all BRIC applications from Fiscal Years 2020-2023. In addition, the Fiscal Year 2024 BRIC funding opportunity was cancelled, no applications submitted will be reviewed and no funds will be awarded. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act made $1 billion available for BRIC over five years, $133 million to date has been provided for about 450 applications. Approximately $882 million of funding from the 2021 law will be returned to the U.S. Treasury or reapportioned by Congress in the next fiscal year.

Outstanding BRIC Projects and Next Steps

FEMA will be reaching out and coordinating with recipients on projects. The agency’s website will be updated with a full list of projects selected for funding over the last four years. The status will show what is fully obligated, partially obligated and cancelled.

• Recipients will be able to complete fully obligated projects that have started construction and will be able to expend all associated funds. FEMA will also obligate management costs associated with partially or fully obligated projects.
• Fully obligated projects that have not started construction will not be approved and will end.
• For phased projects, FEMA Regions will work closely with applicants on already obligated projects to determine the best path forward for those projects. This may include ending the project after the completion of Phase 1 or at another appropriate stopping point.
• FEMA will not be extending project deadlines without the Senior Official Performing the Duties of the FEMA Administrator’s approval.
• Management costs will only continue for partially or fully obligated projects.

Unobligated Funds

For previous funding cycles, FEMA will cancel all of the BRIC projects selected but not obligated across fiscal years 2020-2023.

For more information, please contact Leigh Mitchell, USET SPF Senior Policy Analyst, at lmitchell@usetinc.org.

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Established in 2014, the USET Sovereignty Protection Fund (USET SPF) is a non-profit, inter-Tribal organization advocating on behalf of thirty-three (33) federally recognized Tribal Nations from the Northeastern Woodlands to the Everglades and across the Gulf of Mexico. USET SPF is dedicated to promoting, protecting, and advancing the inherent sovereign rights and authorities of Tribal Nations and in assisting its membership in dealing effectively with public policy issues.