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Lawmakers Hear Push to Expand Disaster Resiliency Fund to Leverage Federal Grants
Summary
Supporters told the Local Government committee that expanding a state disaster resiliency fund to $100 million would help small communities meet federal match requirements and increase access to FEMA grants that typically fund roughly 75% of mitigation projects.
Representative Larry Brewster, sponsor of House Bill 34, asked the committee to revive and expand a resiliency fund intended to provide a stable, long-term source of matching funds for local disaster-mitigation projects. ‘‘It was this bill has been around before, and it didn't make it, but a few things have been changed in it, make it more palatable,’’ Brewster said during opening remarks.
State budget officials and agency leaders said the fund would let Montana pursue federal mitigation grants more effectively. Ryan Evans, assistant budget director in the governor’s office, said the proposal would seed a $100 million Montana Resiliency Fund and argued…
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