BOSTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $3.1 million to the State of New Hampshire to reimburse the University of New Hampshire for some of the costs of providing testing for students, faculty and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The $3,103,181 FEMA Public Assistance grant to the public university will reimburse it for purchasing supplies to administer and process COVID-19 tests at the university’s Manchester and Durham campuses between June and November 2020.
The purchased materials included, but were not limited to, vials, solutions, multiplex mixers, tips, covers, COVID-19 solution kits, pathogen kits, and sample collection kits.
“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 more than $181 million in Public Assistance grants to New Hampshire to reimburse the state for pandemic-related expenses.