CDBG Mitigation

Mitigation helps communities lessen the impact of future disasters by reducing or eliminating the risk of death, injury, property loss or damage, suffering and hardship.

• In January 2021, HUD announced that NCORR will receive an additional $34.6 million in CDBG-MIT funds, bringing the total Mitigation budget to $202 million. 

• On January 7, 2021 the public comment period ended on ReBuild NC’s CDBG-Mitigation Substantial Action Plan Amendment 1. The amendment was approved by HUD on March 9, 2021.

• On May 28, 2021, NCORR published CDBG-Mitigation Substantial Action Plan Amendment 2 that shows how NCORR proposes to use the additional $34.6 million in CDBG-MIT funds. 

• A virtual public hearing was held on June 22, 2021 as part of a public comment period. A video recording and transcriptions of the hearing can be found below.

  Public Hearing Recording
  English Presentation  Spanish Presentation
  Transcript in English  Transcript in Spanish   

• On June 27, 2021 the public comment period ended on ReBuild NC's CDBG-Mitigation Substantial Action Plan Amendment 2. The action plan will now be reviewed by HUD.  

North Carolina pays for mitigation activities with Community Development Block Grant – Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) funds, which have been allocated to the state by the U.S. Congress and approved for use by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD made $168 million in CDBG-MIT funds available to North Carolina for mitigation activities in 2019 and $34.6 million in 2021.

Under federal guidelines, CDBG-MIT funds must be used for projects that reduce future losses. Additionally, North Carolina must:

• Spend at least 50% of the funds to benefit counties that HUD designated as being  “most impacted and distressed” by Hurricanes Matthew and Hurricane Florence.
• Use at least 50% of the funds for activities that benefit low- and moderate-income residents.

HUD approved the CDBG-MIT Substantial Action Plan Amendment 1 on March 9, 2021. CDBG-MIT Substantial Action Plan Amendment 2 is currently under development to provide a plan for the additional $34.6 million in MIT funds allocated to NCORR under the new Federal Register Notice . Once developed, this draft plan will be posted here and a public hearing will be scheduled to obtain public comments on the draft plan.

HUD released the first Federal Register notice that specified the requirements for the mitigation funds on August 30, 2019. Based on risk assessment data, the State Hazard Mitigation Plan, and feedback from local government and community input, the state developed the draft action plan, which outlined how the money will be used. After a 45-day public comment period, NCORR submitted the draft action plan and the required citizen participation plan to HUD for approval, which was granted on March 13, 2020.

State of North Carolina CDBG-MIT Action Plan

Plan de acción de la CDBG-MIT Estado de Carolina del Norte

Citizen Participation Plan-Version 4

Plan de Participación Ciudadana