WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The federal government has agreed to $77 million in new flood relief funds for North Dakota, the state's congressional delegation announced Thursday.
This represents about 20 percent of the total disaster-relief funding nationwide.
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan told the delegation that Minot would get $67.5 million and the rest of Ward County would get $9.5 million.
The funds come out of HUD's Community Development Block Grant program. Combined with previously announced Federal Emergency Management Agency funding, the state will have received more than $150 million for housing and flood protection.
Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., added the CDBG funds as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Then he, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. and Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., worked with their respective parties to win approval.
