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Governor Greg Abbott announced Commissioner George P. Bush and the Texas General Land Office will lead a historic comprehensive resiliency and disaster mitigation program funded by more than 4 billion in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD Community Development Block Grant for Mitigation CDBG-MIT. The comprehensive program will prioritize large-scale regional projects that increase the states resilience to disasters statewide protect lives and mitigate against future hurricanes and other natural disasters.The state of Texas is committed to making our communities more resilient to natural disasters said Governor Abbott. Today we are pushing forward with the single-largest mitigation program our state has ever seen. Commissioner Bush and I are committed to working together in partnership with HUD and the Texas Division of Emergency Management to maximize the impact of this funding.Today is a historic day for our state said Commissioner Bush. Texas top disaster preparedness and recovery leaders are focused on accomplishing broad wide ranging projects that will benefit the most Texans. I am committed to maximizing this historic funding by prioritizing regional partnerships to protect Texans from future storms.In accordance with HUD requirements the funds will be focused on reducing long-term risk of loss of life injury damage to and loss of property and suffering and hardship by lessening the impact of future disasters. The funds were appropriated by Congress on February 9 2018 for mitigation projects in the areas affected by Hurricane Harvey as well as 2015 and 2016 Floods. Since 2015 183 Texas counties have received a Presidential disaster declaration.Information on CDBG-MITOn August 23 2019 HUD released mandatory rules for the use of more than 4.3 billion in funding for mitigation projects which were appropriated by Congress on February 9 2018. Publication of rules in the Federal Register was necessary for the GLO to begin drafting a state action plan before sending it to HUD for approval. This process has already begun and is expected to take approximately nine months or more to complete. In total HUD allocated 4383085000 in CDBG-MIT funds to Texas. Altogether 140 Texas counties are eligible for some part of this allocation of funding for 2015 2016 and 2017 Hurricane Harvey disasters.Governor Greg Abbott today announced Commissioner George P. Bush and the Texas General Land Office will lead a historic comprehensive resiliency and disaster mitigation program funded by more than 4 billion in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD Community Development Block Grant for Mitigation CDBG-MIT. The comprehensive program will prioritize large-scale regional projects that increase the states resilience to disasters statewide protect lives and mitigate against future hurricanes and other natural disasters.The state of Texas is committed to making our communities more resilient to natural disasters said Governor Abbott. Today we are pushing forward with the single-largest mitigation program our state has ever seen. Commissioner Bush and I are committed to working together in partnership with HUD and the Texas Division of Emergency Management to maximize the impact of this funding.Today is a historic day for our state said Commissioner Bush. Texas top disaster preparedness and recovery leaders are focused on accomplishing broad wide ranging projects that will benefit the most Texans. I am committed to maximizing this historic funding by prioritizing regional partnerships to protect Texans from future storms.In accordance with HUD requirements the funds will be focused on reducing long-term risk of loss of life injury damage to and loss of property and suffering and hardship by lessening the impact of future disasters. The funds were appropriated by Congress on February 9 2018 for mitigation projects in the areas affected by Hurricane Harvey as well as 2015 and 2016 Floods. Since 2015 183 Texas counties have received a Presidential disaster declaration.Information on CDBG-MITOn August 23 2019 HUD released mandatory rules for the use of more than 4.3 billion in funding for mitigation projects which were appropriated by Congress on February 9 2018. Publication of rules in the Federal Register was necessary for the GLO to begin drafting a state action plan before sending it to HUD for approval. This process has already begun and is expected to take approximately nine months or more to complete. In total HUD allocated 4383085000 in CDBG-MIT funds to Texas. Altogether 140 Texas counties are eligible for some part of this allocation of funding for 2015 2016 and 2017 Hurricane Harvey disasters.
