Notice Announced of Funding Opportunity for Fiscal Year 2022 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program and Competition is Steep - The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
because those trees are what is going to save us. and we ask other countries to stop deforestation, but we re not only allowing it, we subsidize it. so to break down the inflation reduction act that you re making reference to, it does include $369 billion in funding for climate change, mitigation projects and specifically has $5 billion in conservation in the form of sustainable forestry. so why are you not confident that the future of logging on public land wouldn t be addressed with that kind of allocation? because when they claim to be doing conservation, there are many, many euphemisms for logging. restoration is a euphemism for logging. hazardous fuel treatment, which they say they re doing to keep wildfires out of communities, they do that miles away from communities and it is logging. they all boil down to logging.
rebuilding that, building it back stronger so it can be more resilient to these future threats. chris: this is going to get to probably a little more political than you want to get, administrator, but this was passed last month, the infrastructure plan by the senate. now it is being held up in the house with a debate over another 3 trillion dollars plan. if climate change and if weather extremes are such a clear and present danger, would you like to see even if you pass the bill today, it is going to take a while to get shovels in the ground, would you like to see this infrastructure plan pass sooner rather than later so that you can get going on this? no, the mitigation projects that need to be done, they are going to take time. we do need to start though right now planning for what those projects are going to be and learning where we re going to invest our money to make sure we are creating a more resilient infrastructure, more resilient communities. we ve already started at fe
back stronger so it can be more resilient to these future threats. chris: this is going to get to probably a little more political than you want to get, administrator, but this was passed last month, the infrastructure plan by the senate. now it is being held up in the house with a debate over another 3 trillion dollars plan. if climate change and if weather extremes are such a clear and present danger, would you like to see even if you pass the bill today, it is going to take a while to get shovels in the ground, would you like to see this infrastructure plan pass sooner rather than later so that you can get going on this? no, the mitigation projects that need to be done, they are going to take time. we do need to start though right now planning for what those projects are going to be and learning where we re going to invest our money to make sure we are creating a more resilient infrastructure, more resilient communities. we ve already started at fema