DENVER – FEMA has approved $1.5 million in Public Assistance funding for the city-wide road repairs in Red Lodge, Montana. The assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration issued June 16, 2022. FEMA has approved more than $7 million in Public Assistance funding for the 2022 Montana Flooding recovery to date.
The funding reimburses the city for contract services to make repairs to 27 sites along 11 different roadways, restoring these roads back to their pre-disaster design, function, and capacity within the existing footprint.
This FEMA funding represents 75 percent of the cost of the project with the remaining cost share the responsibility of the State of Montana and the City of Red Lodge.
The FEMA Public Assistance program provides funding to governmental agencies and certain private non-profits for eligible disaster response costs and to repair or replace damaged public infrastructure. For more information about the Public Assistance program, visit: https://www.fema.gov/assistance/public/program-overview.