N.D. board offering flood impact grants
The North Dakota State Land Board is accepting Flood Infrastructure Impact grant applications to help cities, counties and other political subdivisions cover the costs of repairing damages caused by 2011 flooding.
In the November special session, the Legislature appropriated $30 million for the Flood-Impacted Political Subdivision Infrastructure grant program to be administered by the Department of Trust Lands. The grant fund was created to help communities and other political subdivisions pay for repairs to public infrastructure for flood damages that are not reimbursable through the Federal Emergency Management Agency or other assistance programs.
Applicants must be a political subdivision within one of the nine North Dakota counties that were FEMA declared eligible for individual disaster assistance as a result of damages sustained from 2011 flooding. Barnes County is the eligible county in this area.
Eligible projects include, but are not limited to: the purchase of homes damaged by levee construction; road repairs; damage assessment studies; property acquisitions for floodway development and levee construction. The projects funded by the grants must be matched by at least 50 percent non-state sources.
As much as $25.5 million will be awarded during the program’s initial grant round and $4.5 million will be reserved for unanticipated or unknown needs. The deadline for submitting grant proposals for the initial grant round is March 20. Grant applications should be prioritized at the county level and submitted from each county.
Flood Impact Grant program guidelines and application materials are available at http://www.land.nd
.gov/floodimpact/ . Questions or requests for information should be directed to Duane DeKrey at 701-328-1948.
Completed applications can be submitted electronically to floodimpact@nd.gov or delivered to the: Flood Impact Grant Program
c/o the Department of Trust Lands
PO Box 5523
Bismarck, ND 58506