“We were approved last summer, and it’s been sitting on her desk since,” Philo Shelton, Los Alamos county’s utilities manager, told NOTUS. This is the first time the scope of Noem’s funding hold on the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program has been reported. In December, FEMA granted about $1.5 million in federal spending for hazard mitigation projects in Georgia, two of which are located primarily in Republican Rep. Most recently, in late January, Oklahoma’s long-awaited hazard mitigation projects received final approval for more than $12 million. In March, the Trump administration stopped granting new state requests to access hazard mitigation funding for disasters.