Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Thursday that state officials have submitted to the federal government a $58.2 million flood recovery plan to help Colorado communities hit by the 2013 flood.
The plan was sent to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of an effort to secure Community Development Block Grant monies for hard-hit areas.
This allocation, the third from HUD, would bring the agency’s total support to Colorado to approximately $320 million. The state suffered nearly $3 billion in losses from the historic flooding of 2013.
The money will be used to pay for housing, infrastructure, watershed restoration, agriculture, economic development and planning. HUD has 45 days to review the state’s plan.
“This (allocation) empowers Colorado communities to continue their extraordinary recovery efforts and to build back better, stronger and more resilient,” Hickenlooper said in a release.
HUD requires that 50 percent of the CDBG Disaster Recovery funds benefit low- to moderate-income households and that 80 percent of the funds be distributed in Boulder, Larimer and Weld counties, the areas hardest hit by the flood.
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