FEMA Awards Over $3 Million to University of New Hampshire for COVID Testing Costs

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January 25, 2022

BOSTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $3 million to the State of New Hampshire to reimburse the University of New Hampshire for the cost of providing testing for students, faculty and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The $3,020,487 in FEMA Public Assistance grants to the public university with campuses in Manchester and Durham will reimburse it for purchasing supplies and contracting to administer and process COVID-19 tests as well as the costs of purchasing and setting up its own laboratory for testing.

One grant of $1,151,143 will reimburse the university for purchasing the equipment needed to set up two laboratories on campus to process COVID-19 tests, as well as contracting for staff to operate them between October 2020 and February 2021.

A second grant of $1,869,344 will cover the costs of administering 1,012 polymerase chain reaction (PCR)  COVID-19 tests, as well as contracting for specialists to operate one of the labs during May 2021.

“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 $190 million in Public Assistance grants to New Hampshire to reimburse the state for pandemic-related expenses.

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