RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- North Carolina has won its lawsuit against FEMA , with a federal court ordering the agency to reinstate the BRIC disaster mitigation program.

Attorney General Jeff Jackson sued in July after FEMA abruptly canceled the program, stripping $200 million from more than 60 infrastructure projects across the state.

The court ruled that FEMA's action unlawfully encroached on Congress's authority to appropriate funds for disaster mitigation.

"We won this case because FEMA tried to take back $200 million that it had already designated for North Carolina," Attorney General Jeff Jackson said. "Our towns spent years doing everything FEMA asked them to do to qualify for this funding, and they were in the middle of building real protections against storms when FEMA suddenly

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