PRESIDENT DECLARES A
MAJOR DISASTER FOR LOUISIANA
WASHINGTON -- The U.S.
Department of Homeland
Security's Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA)
announced that federal
disaster aid has been made
available to
Louisiana and ordered
federal aid to supplement
state and local recovery
efforts in the area struck
by
flooding during the period
of April 25 to July 7, 2011.
Federal funding is
available to state and
eligible local governments
and certain private
nonprofit organizations on a
cost-sharing basis for
emergency work and the
repair or replacement of
facilities damaged
by the flooding in the
parishes of Assumption,
Avoyelles, Concordia, East
Carroll, Lafourche, Madison,
Point Coupee, St. Charles,
St. James, St. Landry, St.
Martin, St. Mary, Tensas,
Terrebonne, and West
Feliciana.
Federal funding is also
available on a cost-sharing
basis for hazard mitigation
measures statewide.
Gerard M. Stolar
has been
named as the Federal
Coordinating Officer for
federal recovery operations
in the affected area.
Stolar
said that additional
designations may be made at
a later date if requested by
the state and warranted by
the results of further
damage assessments.
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