[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 180 (Friday, September 17, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 50512]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24293]
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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
[FEMA-3142-EM]
Texas; 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 State of Texas (FEMA-3142-EM), dated September 1,
1999, and related determinations.
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 1, 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 1, 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 emergency conditions in certain areas
of the State of Texas, resulting from extreme fire hazards on August
1, 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 State of Texas.
You are authorized to coordinate with other Federal agencies to
provide any form of direct Federal assistance which you deem
appropriate for required emergency measures, authorized under the
Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and
safety, and lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the
designated areas. You are also authorized to provide reimbursement
for the eligible costs associated with the pre-staging of Emergency
Management Assistance Compact and State fire suppression assets.
Reimbursement for costs associated with suppressing wildland fires
will continue to be authorized under Section 420 of the Stafford
Act. 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 disaster assistance and
administrative expenses. Consistent with the requirement that
Federal assistance be supplemental, any Federal funds provided under
the Stafford Act will be limited to 75 percent of the total eligible
costs.
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 E. Hendrix of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency to act as the Federal Coordinating Officer
for this declared disaster.
I do hereby determine the following areas of the State of Texas to
have been affected adversely by this declared emergency:
FEMA has been authorized to coordinate with other Federal
agencies to provide any form of direct Federal assistance
appropriate for required emergency measures, authorized under the
Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and
safety, and lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe.
Reimbursement for the eligible costs associated with the pre-staging
of Emergency Management Assistance Compact and State fire
suppression assets is authorized. Reimbursement for costs associated
with wildland fires will continue to be authorized under Section 420
of the Stafford Act.
This assistance is for the counties of: Anderson, Andrews,
Angelina, Archer, Armstrong, Austin, Bailey, Bandera, Bastrop,
Baylor, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brazoria,
Brazos, Brewster, Briscoe, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell,
Calhoun, Callahan, Camp, Carson, Cass, Castro, Chambers, Cherokee,
Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Collingsworth,
Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell, Cottle, Crane,
Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dallam, Dallas, Dawson, Deaf Smith,
Delta, Denton, DeWitt, Dickens, Donley, Eastland, Ector, Edwards, El
Paso, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fayette, Fisher, Floyd, Foard,
Fort Bend, Franklin, Freestone, Gaines, Galveston, Garza, Gillespie,
Glasscock, Gonzales, Gray, Grayson, Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hale,
Hall, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Hardin, Harris, Harrison,
Hartley, Haskell, Hays, Hemphill, Henderson, Hill, Hockley, Hood,
Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Hudspeth, Hunt, Hutchinson, Irion, Jack,
Jackson, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Kaufman,
Kendall, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Knox, Lamar, Lamb,
Lampasas, Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Liberty, Limestone, Lipscomb, Llano,
Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Madison, Marion, Martin, Mason, Matagorda,
McCulloch, McLennan, Medina, Menard, Midland, Milam, Mills,
Mitchell, Montague, Montgomery, Moore, Morris, Motley, Nacogdoches,
Navarro, Newton, Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham, Orange, Palo Pinto,
Panola, Parker, Parmer, Pecos, Polk, Potter, Presidio, Rains,
Randall, Reagan, Real, Red River, Reeves, Roberts, Robertson,
Rockwall, Runnels, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, San
Saba, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackelford, Shelby, Sherman, Smith,
Somerveil, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Swisher, Tarrant,
Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Titus, Tom Green, Travis,
Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt,
Victoria, Walker, Waller, Ward, Washington, Wharton, Wheeler,
Wichita, Wilbarger, Williamson, Wilson, Winkler, Wise, Wood, Yoakum,
and Young.
(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. 99-24293 Filed 9-16-99; 8:45 am]
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