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Witnesses press to expand eligible mitigation projects and speed environmental reviews for recovery work
Summary
Witnesses told the subcommittee that mitigation grants such as BRIC and PDM can support resilience projects but bureaucratic hurdles — including benefit‑cost thresholds and slow environmental/historic preservation reviews — often delay or block projects, and they urged better guidance and streamlined reviews.
Witnesses and committee members discussed how federal mitigation grant programs (BRIC, PDM and related mechanisms) can fund resilience projects but are frequently slowed by documentation, benefit‑cost thresholds and protracted environmental and historic preservation (EHP) reviews.
GAO and state witnesses emphasized that the complexity of mitigation projects and the difficulty of documenting benefits contributes to slow approvals; one state director said environmental…
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