[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 68355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31654]
[[Page 68355]]
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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
[FEMA-3147-EM]
Virginia; Emergency and Related Determinations
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an
emergency for the Commonwealth of Virginia (FEMA-3147-EM), dated
September 16, 1999, and related determinations.
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 16, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madge Dale, Response and Recovery
Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC 20472,
(202) 646-3772.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter
dated September 16, 1999, the President declared an emergency under the
authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), as follows:
I have determined that the damage in certain areas of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, resulting from Hurricane Floyd beginning
on September 13, 1999, and continuing is of sufficient severity and
magnitude to warrant an emergency declaration under the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, P.L. 93-288,
as amended (``the Stafford Act''). I, therefore, declare that such
an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
You are authorized to coordinate all disaster relief efforts
which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering
caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide
appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized
under Title V of the Stafford Act to save lives, protect property
and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a
catastrophe in the designated areas. Specifically, you are
authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at your discretion,
equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the
emergency. I have further authorized debris removal (Category A) and
emergency protective measures (Category B) including direct Federal
assistance, at 75 percent Federal funding. This assistance excludes
regular time costs for subgrantees regular employees. In addition,
you are authorized to provide such other forms of assistance under
the Stafford Act, as you may deem appropriate.
In order to provide Federal assistance, you are hereby
authorized to allocate from funds available for these purposes, such
amounts as you find necessary for Federal emergency assistance and
administrative expenses.
Further, you are authorized to make changes to this declaration
to the extent allowable under the Stafford Act.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the authority vested in the
Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Executive
Order 12148, I hereby appoint Robert J. Gunter of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency to act as the Federal Coordinating Officer for this
declared emergency.
I do hereby determine the following areas of the Commonwealth of
Virginia to have been affected adversely by this declared emergency:
FEMA intends to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which
have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by
the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate
assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V
of the Stafford Act to save lives, protect property and public
health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe
in the designated areas. Specifically, FEMA is authorized to
identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and
resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. FEMA
is further authorized to provide debris removal (Category A) and
emergency protective measures (Category B) including direct Federal
assistance, at 75 percent Federal funding.
This assistance is for: the City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton,
City of Portsmouth, City of Poquoson, City of Newport News, City of
Norfolk, City of Suffolk, City of Virginia Beach, and the counties
of Accomack, Gloucester, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex,
Northumberland, Northampton, Richmond, Sussex, Westmoreland, and
York.
(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers (CFDA)
are to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 83.537, Community
Disaster Loans; 83.538, Cora Brown Fund Program; 83.539, Crisis
Counseling; 83.540, Disaster Legal Services Program; 83.541,
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 83.542, Fire Suppression
Assistance; 83.543, Individual and Family Grant (IFG) Program;
83.544, Public Assistance Grants; 83.545, Disaster Housing Program;
83.548, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.)
James L. Witt,
Director.
[FR Doc. 99-31654 Filed 12-6-99; 8:45 am]
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