德克萨斯州土地专员乔治·P·布什（George P. Bush）要求联邦政府在县和休斯敦市的反弹中向联邦政府提供7.5亿美元的直接缓解援助，此前两个地方政府都在5月份进行了10亿美元的飓风Harvey援助中被驱逐出境。21由德克萨斯州总土地办公室。

Bush announced on May 26 he is submitting his request to the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the county to receive the direct funding.

布什在一份声明中说：“我听说了哈里斯县对缓解资金竞争的压倒性问题。”“联邦政府的繁文tape节要求和法规是拜登总统政府的标志。当我们与联邦政府作斗争时，我对与得克萨斯州的人民站在一起并不陌生。因此，我指示GLO围绕联邦政府的法规工作，并在哈里斯县分配7.5亿美元的缓解工作。”

The GLO is submitting an amendment to the state’s plan for administering the HUD mitigation grants in Texas to implement the changes and will hold a final funding competition at a later date for the 48 other counties eligible for funding.

哈里斯县和休斯顿向GLO提出了挑战，以授予联邦飓风哈维救济资金，此前这两个地方政府都没有被任命为5月21日GLO宣布的救济资金奖励的获得者；两个政府都满足于他们首当其冲2017年风暴。一些当地官员批评了GLO的联邦政府规定的评分程序，该过程是在特朗普政府下制定的，以确定奖项。

In an address streamed online on May 24, Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey argued that Congress’ intent was for the GLO to ensure that local governments would use the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development funds to mitigate Harvey’s damages, an estimated 50% of which occurred in Harris County.

“That is not GLO money. … That is money that Congress set aside to address damage in Harris County,” Ramsey said.

The setback comes just weeks after Harris County announced it is facing a$1.4 billion funding gap支付其近50亿美元计划的洪水控制项目。新利18备用网址HUD资金是该县堵塞该差距的策略的关键。

2018年，县选民批准了一项25亿美元的债券计划，以覆盖其中一半的项目。新利18备用网址其他25亿美元的资金将来自联邦，州和地方资金，但到目前为止，该县仅获得了12亿美元。

住房和城市发展部指控,如果开发一个公式selecting which local governments would receive a share of the first round of Community Development Block Grant for Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) funds through the Hurricane Harvey State Mitigation Competition.

Houston and Harris County requested $1.3 billion in funding, but the state instead awarded the funding to 46 other local governments in southeast Texas. Four cities within Harris County—Baytown, Galena Park, Jacinto City and Pasadena—received a combined $90.4 million in funding.

“The way the criteria was put together makes it difficult for communities with large populations to be competitive,” said Harris County Flood Control District executive director Russ Poppe in the May 24 online address.

土地专员乔治·P·布什（George P. Bush）的发言人布列塔尼·埃克（Brittany Eck）告诉ENR，土地办公室受HUD开发新利18备用其选择矩阵的准则的约束。

“We were as surprised as any entity at the results,” Eck says. “We had actually hired staff to help with projects related to Houston and Harris County for mitigation.”

One reason why it was harder for Houston and Harris County to obtain the funding was because HUD decided not to provide direct aid to any one county, which meant that governments would instead have to compete for the funding under the federal agency’s rules.

“We have encouraged Harris County to go back to HUD and have this discussion again,” Eck says, referring to a second round of HUD funding becomes available later this year.

2018年，国会批准了660亿美元的救灾资金，前往HUD，美国陆军工程兵团和联邦紧急事务管理局。从这笔资金中，该州直接向休斯敦市捐赠了10亿美元的HUD恢复资金，并在哈维飓风后向哈里斯县提供了10亿美元。

埃克说，直接分配将是将资金直接用于特定政府实体的“最干净，最简单的方法”，这就是休斯顿和哈里斯县期望的那样，这是在分配额外缓解资金的时候会发生的。

“We supported in asking for a direct set-aside for those funds so they wouldn’t have to compete with other eligible counties. However HUD did not do that,” Eck says.

In setting the requirements for the funding competition, the state limited each entity to three applications and capped each request at $100 million. Harris County agencies requested the maximum of $900 million.

HUD spokesperson Mike Burns said in a prepared statement that his department did not prevent Texas from awarding the HUD funds to Houston or Harris County. “The formula for allocation was created by the state of Texas. They have full responsibility and jurisdiction over who gets the money that was allocated to the state for flood mitigation, if HUD approves the action plan amendment, which has not been submitted or approved by the agency,” Burns said. “We believe all areas of the state, including Houston and Harris County, should receive the resources they need to recover from Hurricane Harvey.”

Eck says the 81 projects that received funding were awarded in order of highest score until funds ran out. “HUD does not allow grading on a curve, nor could we show favoritism to certain applicants over others,” she says. “In the Harvey-eligible counties competition, we received $5.5 billion in requests from 220 applicants for $1 billion in funds.”

Harris County may now need to explore other funding strategies, including the use of toll roads or raising property taxes in the flood control district. Another $1 billion is available for Community Development Block Grant Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) allocations, and the GLO plans to take applications later this year.

“GLO said they’d be open to a direct allocation. So we’re going to take them at their word and pursue that avenue, both in Washington and in Austin,” Ramsey says.