The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program was ended in April 2025, restored by a federal court in December 2025, and reopened with different rules in March 2026. If BRIC feels unsettled, that is an accurate read. This page sets out what is known, what changed for tribal applicants, and what is still undecided, with every point linked to a primary or neutral source.
BRIC exists, but it is not the program tribal emergency managers planned around before 2025. The FY2024 and FY2025 round of roughly $1 billion closed on July 23, 2026. That round removed hazard mitigation planning from eligibility, narrowed capability and capacity building, and rewarded construction-ready infrastructure. No later round had been announced at review, and the program’s long-term future depends on the courts, FEMA reform and Congress.
FEMA publishes a Fiscal Year 2024 BRIC notice of funding opportunity with $750 million available. It is retracted in mid-February.
FEMA announces it is ending BRIC. On April 16 it advises that the FY2024 notice is cancelled and that FY2020 to FY2023 selections will be cancelled unless funds have already been distributed.
Twenty states sue in Washington v. FEMA in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Judge Richard G. Stearns enters a preliminary injunction barring FEMA from spending BRIC funds for non-BRIC purposes while the case proceeds.
The court rules that the termination was unlawful and enters a permanent injunction restoring the program.
The court enforces its ruling, ordering FEMA to report project status within 14 days and publish a FY2024 notice within 21 days.
FEMA posts a combined FY2024 and FY2025 BRIC notice: $1 billion, including a $50 million tribal set-aside and a $25 million tribal building code plus-up.
Applications close in FEMA GO at 3 p.m. Eastern. Selections, any FY2026 cycle and the long-term shape of the program had not been announced when this page was reviewed.
The planning requirement. Under 44 CFR 201.7, a tribe applying as a recipient still needs a FEMA-approved Tribal Mitigation Plan to receive non-emergency Stafford Act assistance and Hazard Mitigation Assistance project funding, including BRIC, the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Flood Mitigation Assistance. Under 44 CFR 206.434, up to seven percent of an HMGP allocation may still fund planning after a declaration. The paradox of 2026 is that the plan remains the gate to BRIC project funding while BRIC itself no longer pays to write the plan.
Send the nation’s name. We will check its FEMA plan status against public records and lay out the funding options that are actually open, at no cost.
No round was open when this page was reviewed on October 5, 2026. The FY2024 and FY2025 application period ran from March 25 to July 23, 2026. Only a notice of funding opportunity posted on Grants.gov establishes that a round is open.
Not under the restarted FY2024 and FY2025 notice, which removed hazard mitigation planning from BRIC eligibility. Hazard Mitigation Grant Program planning funds after a declaration remain the most common federal path. Check each new notice, because eligibility can change between cycles.
Yes. Under 44 CFR 201.7, a tribe applying as a recipient needs a FEMA-approved Tribal Mitigation Plan to receive non-emergency Stafford Act assistance and Hazard Mitigation Assistance project funding, including BRIC, HMGP and FMA projects. The BRIC litigation did not change that requirement.
The FY2024 and FY2025 notice included a $50 million tribal set-aside, with up to $2 million per applicant, and a separate $25 million tribal building code plus-up. Federally recognized tribes may apply directly or as subapplicants through a state.
Keep the mitigation plan current, build a short list of construction-ready projects with design work underway, confirm the status of any previously selected BRIC project with the FEMA regional office, and watch Grants.gov for the next notice.
Program status changes without notice. Where this summary and a source differ, the source governs.
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