City of Norfolk Get Funds to Reduce Wind Damage
Release Date: March 24, 2000
Release Number: R3-00-06
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- The City of Norfolk, Virginia, will receive funding for a $120,000 hazard-mitigation project to reduce the risk of potential wind damage.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved the city's project to install hurricane shutters over existing windows and doors at the Fleet Maintenance Facility, 1188 Lance Road, and the Solid Waste Facility, 1176 Pine Road, Norfolk. These facilities are used as emergency operations centers.
FEMA will release $90,000 to the state of Virginia as the federal share - 75 percent - of the estimated project cost. Local and state jurisdictions will provide the remaining 25 percent.
The federal funds come from FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, which is intended to reduce risk from future disasters by breaking the disaster-repair-disaster cycle, thus saving economic and emotional costs.
Communities present hazard-mitigation proposals to their states. The states select from among these proposals, using their own criteria. FEMA reviews the states' choices to make sure they comply with federal law and are cost effective. If the proposals pass these tests, FEMA releases the funds to the states.
Hazard-mitigation funds are limited. The money available is an additional amount equivalent to 15 percent of the federal money spent on response and recovery operations in a federally declared disaster.
Last Modified: Tuesday, 18-Nov-2003 15:24:04