FEMA
Advisory
FEMA Lifts Immediate Needs Funding (INF)
Restrictions
The
Continuing Resolution signed on Sept. 30 gives FEMA access to enough funding to
lift Immediate Needs Funding (INF).
FEMA's top
priorities are meeting disaster survivors' immediate needs and ensuring states,
tribes and territories have the necessary lifesaving and life-sustaining
resources to respond to disasters. FEMA implemented INF restrictions on August
29 due to a series of major disaster activities and a rapidly depleting
Disaster Relief Fund balance. This guidance allowed the agency to prioritize
ongoing disaster operations and preserve funding for initial response and
recovery activities for any new incidents. Under INF, new obligations for
non-lifesaving and life-sustaining activities were paused so FEMA could continue
its focus on response and urgent recovery efforts without interruption.
The Continuing
Resolution included $16 billion of supplemental funding for FEMA, and provides
access to an additional $20 billion for the duration of the Continuing
Resolution. Lifting INF allows FEMA to begin processing obligations on the over
2,400 projects that were paused. This provides vital funding for schools and
hospitals across the nation, as well as critical infrastructure projects that
will mitigate damage from future disasters.
Delayed projects
will be processed as quickly as possible in the order they were paused. FEMA
estimates that all delayed projects will be funded within the next several
weeks.
Contact Us
If you have any
questions, please contact FEMA Office of External Affairs:
- Congressional Affairs at (202) 646-4500 or at FEMA-Congressional-Affairs@fema.dhs.gov
- Intergovernmental Affairs at (202) 646-3444 or at FEMA-IGA@fema.dhs.gov
- Tribal Affairs at (202) 646-3444 or at FEMA-Tribal@fema.dhs.gov
- Private Sector Engagement at (202) 646-3444 or
at FEMA-Private-Sector@fema.dhs.gov
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