Coastal communities have until 5 p.m. Jan. 24 to apply for state funding to help recover from hurricane damage.
The North Carolina General Assembly allocated $10 million to the Department of Environmental Quality for the funding, which is being administered by the Division of Water Resources through its Coastal Storm Damage Mitigation Fund.
Funding can only be used for costs associated with beach nourishment, artificial dunes and other projects to mitigate or remediate coastal storm damage to the ocean beaches and dune systems of the state.
All applications will be evaluated to determine if the proposed beach nourishment or dune project would meet the minimum requirements, and ranked according to their projected environmental benefit, social benefit, economic benefit, as well as based on considerations of the project’s life, financial resources and project efficiency, officials said.
Any project the funds are used for must be matched dollar for dollar with nonstate funds.
To read more about the criteria used to select recipients, go to the guidelines on the department’s website.
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