FLOOD04083

• County: Statewide
• Community: State of North Carolina
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Hazard Mitigation Successes in the State of North Carolina
• Date: 1/1/1999
• Prepared By: North Carolina Department of Crime Control & Public Safety -Emergency Management
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

HMPI each year. Funds also are slated to support meetings with other state agencies
to identify programs that support multiple goals, including sustainability, FMAP
funds for projects are used to acquire homes that have sustained repetitive flood
damage, FMAP technical assistance funds, provided to the state, may be combined
with project grants or used for training and outreach,

Community Development Block Grant
The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) is a federally funded program
that has been used to support post,disaster hazard mitigation and recovery in
North Carolina, Administered by the North Carolina Division of Community
Assistance (DCA), the CDBG provides grants to entitlement communities (metro,
politan cities and urban counties) and non,entitlement communities (cities and
counties with populations fewer than 50,000), The primary goal of the CDBG is to
improve the living standards for low, and moderate,income persons, In practice,
the CDBG has been used to link social programs with hazard mitigation programs
to achieve multiple community objectives,

The communities of Boone, Kinston, and Charlotte have effectively used the CDBG
in combination with federal, state, and local funding sources to develop and
implement mitigation projects, CDBG funds can be used for a wide range of
activities, including:
. acquisition of real property;
. clearance;
. relocation;
. housing rehabilitation;
. public services;
. public facilities and improvements (such as water and sewer facilities, streets,
and neighborhood centers);
. micro-enterprise assistance;
. homeownership assistance; and
. special economic development activities.

State Acquisition and Relocation Fund

Recognizing that communities that received HMGP funding following Hurricane
Fran had unmet needs, the North Carolina General Assembly created the State
Acquisition and Relocation Fund (SARF), The following activities are eligible:

. replacement housing assistance, including relocation assistance for rehabilita-
tion of homes that are elevated~in-p]ace;

. acquisitions that are not eligible for HMGP, but that help complete a planned
project:

. certain administrative costs; and

. unexpected needs, not covered by HMGP but which may arise during a
mitigation project.

SARFs have provided the state with a flexible tool to supplement HMGP assistance
to eligible communities, Under certain circumstances, SARFs can also be used to
assist in the relocation of families whose homes have been purchased under HMGP
funds, As one official notes:

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