Program Overview 10-28-2021

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Receive up to $3,000 toward Houses that qualify, typically:
an Earthquake Retrofit
• Are built before 1980 (but are more
Earthquake Brace + Bolt (EBB) helps homeowners prevalent before 1940);
lessen the potential for damage during an earthquake.
EBB offers up to $3,000 toward a code-compliant seismic • Have a raised continuous perimeter
retrofit for houses that qualify. concrete foundation;

A Brace and Bolt Retrofit • Sit on level ground or a low-slope; and

In an EBB retrofit, the foundation is • May have wood-framed walls (called
bolted, and if there is a cripple wall, cripple walls) in the crawl space under
it is braced. the first floor.

• Bolting: adding anchor bolts in the Supplemental Grants Available
crawl space to help prevent the EBB is also offering a Supplemental
home from sliding. Grant to help low-income households
pay up to 100 percent of the cost
• Bracing: adding plywood to the to seismically retrofit their homes. A
cripple walls to stiffen them and help “low-income household” is defined as
prevent the home from collapsing. a household with income at or below
$72,080. These grants are based on
FLOOR JOISTS CRAWL SPACE NEW available funds.
FRAMING
CLIPS Registration

CRIPPLE NEW To apply for the the EBB program:
WALL PLYWOOD Go to www.EarthquakeBraceBolt.com
STUDS between October 27 and December 1, 2021.
Create an online account and answer
FOUNDATION NEW WOOD questions for an opportunity to participate.
BLOCKING Participants will be randomly selected.

GROUND NEW VENT HOLES NEW ANCHOR BOLTS A permit must not be issued before you
have been accepted into the program, and
NEW ELEMENTS MAKE UP A SEISMIC RETROFIT retrofit construction work must not begin
before being notified by EBB that your
pre-retrofit documents have been approved.

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RETROFITS EBB has helped more than 15,000 homeowners seismically retrofit their
older house. EBB is working to create more resilient communities,
MINIMIZING EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE one house at a time.

ONE AT A TIME

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2021 PROGRAM AREAS*

Northern CA (New program areas for 2021 in bold)

Southern CA

Alameda Monta Vista Alhambra La Verne Sherman Oaks
Albany Mount Hamilton Altadena Lake Los Angeles Sierra Madre
Alviso Mountain View Arcadia Lancaster South Gate
Aptos Napa Azusa Leimert Park South Pasadena
Arcata Newark Baldwin Hills Littlerock Sunland
Atherton Oakland Baldwin Park Loma Linda Sun Valley
Bayside Orinda Banning Long Beach Sylmar
Belmont Pacifica Beaumont Los Angeles Temple City
Berkeley Palo Alto Bell Gardens Maywood Tujunga
Boulder Creek Permanente Beverly Hills Mentone Upland
Burlingame Petaluma Bloomington Mission Hills Valley Glen
Campbell Piedmont Burbank Monrovia Valley Village
Castro Valley Portola Valley Calimesa Montebello Van Nuys
Colma Redwood City Cherry Valley Montecito Venice
Crescent City Richmond Claremont Monterey Park Ventura
Crockett San Bruno Colton North Hollywood View Park
Cupertino San Carlos Corona Ojai Walnut
Daly City San Francisco Covina Oxnard Watts
El Cerrito San Jose Culver City Pacoima West Hollywood
El Sobrante San Juan Bautista Diamond Bar Pacific Palisades Whittier
Emeryville San Leandro Dockweiler Palm Springs Wrightwood
Eureka San Lorenzo Duarte Palmdale Yucaipa
Ferndale San Martin Eastvale Pasadena
Fort Bragg San Mateo El Centro Pearblossom
Fortuna San Pablo El Monte Pico Rivera
Foster City Santa Clara Fillmore Playa Del Rey
Fremont Santa Rosa Firestone Park Pomona
Gilroy Saratoga Fontana Redlands
Half Moon Bay Sausalito Glendale Rialto
Hayward Sebastopol Glendora Rosemead
Hillsborough Sonoma Goleta San Bernardino
Hollister Soquel Granada Hills San Dimas
Inverness South San Francisco Hemet San Fernando
La Honda Ukiah Hermosa Beach San Gabriel
Loleta Union City Highland San Jacinto
Los Altos Vallejo Huntington Park San Marino
Los Gatos Watsonville Inglewood Santa Barbara
McKinleyville Willits Irwindale Santa Monica
Menlo Park Woodside La Crescenta Santa Paula
Millbrae

*Note: Eligibility is solely based on ZIP Code, not city
or neighborhood.

For a complete list of 2021 EBB ZIP Codes,
go to www.EarthquakeBraceBolt.com

™ CRMP is a joint powers authority created (877) 232-4300
by the CEA and Cal OES. CRMP is a [email protected]
legally separate entity from its members.
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