Section 679.404 - Grants and reimbursements to municipalities and counties(a) The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency is authorized to administer grants to municipalities and counties to assist or reimburse them for costs in preparing official plans and actual administrative enforcement and implementation costs and revisions to official plans for flood plain management required by this act, and for carrying out related studies, surveys, investigations, research and analyses. Grants and reimbursements shall be made from and to the extent of funds appropriated by the General Assembly for such purposes, and shall be made in accordance to rules and regulations adopted by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and in accordance with the following: (1) The grant shall be equal to:(i) 50% of the allowable costs for preparation of official plans, administrative, enforcement and implementation costs required by this act, and revisions of official plans incurred by any municipality or county which prior to the effective date of this act adopted a flood area management program which complies with Title 24, section 1910.3(c) or 1910.3(d) of the regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Insurance Administration; or(ii) 50% of the allowable costs for preparation of official plans, administrative, enforcement and implementation costs required by this act, and revisions of official plans incurred by any municipality or county not covered by subclause (i); And(iii) 50% of the allowable costs for administration of official plans incurred by any municipality or county. Allowable costs for administration of official plans shall not include those costs which are offset by reasonable permit fees imposed by the municipality or county.(2) For the purposes of this section, such State grants shall be in addition to grants for similar purposes made to any municipality or county by the Federal Government: Provided, That the grants authorized by this section shall be limited such that the total of all State and Federal grants does not exceed 50% of the allowable costs incurred by the municipality or county.(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair or limit application of this act to any municipality or person, or to relieve any municipality or person of duties imposed under this act.(c) If, in any fiscal year, appropriations are insufficient to cover the costs or grants and reimbursements to all municipalities or counties eligible for such grants and reimbursements in that fiscal year, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency shall report such fact to the General Assembly and shall request appropriation of funds necessary to provide the grants authorized in this section. If such a deficiency appropriation is not enacted, any municipality or county which has not received the full amount of the grant for which it is eligible under this section shall be as a first priority reimbursed from appropriations made in the next successive fiscal year.Amended by P.L. TBD 2022 No. 65, § 3, eff. 9/9/2022.1978, Oct. 4, P.L. 851, No. 166, § 404, imd. effective.