BOSTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending nearly $8.4 million to the State of New Hampshire to reimburse the University of New Hampshire for the cost of providing testing for students and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The $8,355,789 FEMA Public Assistance grant to the University of New Hampshire will reimburse it for contracting to provide almost 70,000 COVID-19 tests between August and November 2020.
“FEMA is pleased to be able to assist the University of New Hampshire with these costs,” said FEMA Region 1 Regional Administrator Lori Ehrlich. “Providing resources for our institutions of higher education to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is critical to their success, and to our success as a nation.”
FEMA’s Public Assistance program is an essential source of funding for states and communities recovering from a federally declared disaster or emergency.
So far, FEMA has provided almost $147 million in Public Assistance grants to New Hampshire to reimburse the state for pandemic-related expenses.