The Federal Emergency Management Agency has resumed processing disaster relief funding following Congress' passage of a continuing resolution that will fund the federal government through Nov. 17.
The agency paused funding Aug. 29 due to a series of major disaster activities and a rapidly depleting relief fund balance, according to an Oct. 2 notice from FEMA. Congress' continuing resolution included $16 billion of supplemental funding for FEMA and provides an additional $20 billion for the duration of the continuing resolution.
That funding will allow the agency to begin processing obligations to more than 2,400 projects that were paused, including hospital projects, according to the notice. Delayed projects will be processed as quickly as possible in the order they were paused.
FEMA estimates all delayed projects will be funded in the next several weeks.