[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52314-52315]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25174]
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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
[FEMA-1295-DR]
New Jersey; Major Disaster 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 a major
disaster for the State of New Jersey (FEMA-1295-DR), dated September
18, 1999, and related determinations.
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 18, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madge Dale, Response and Recovery
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Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC 20472,
(202) 646-3772.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter
dated September 18, 1999, the President declared a major disaster 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 State
of New Jersey, resulting from Hurricane Floyd on September 16, 1999,
and continuing, is of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant a
major disaster 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 a major disaster
exists in the State of New Jersey.
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.
You are authorized to provide Individual Assistance, Public
Assistance and Hazard Mitigation in the designated areas. Consistent
with the requirement that Federal assistance be supplemental, any
Federal funds provided under the Stafford Act for Public Assistance
or Hazard Mitigation 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.
The time period prescribed for the implementation of section
310(a), Priority to Certain Applications for Public Facility and Public
Housing Assistance, 42 U.S.C. 5153, shall be for a period not to exceed
six months after the date of this declaration.
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 Peter Martinasco 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 New
Jersey to have been affected adversely by this declared major disaster:
The counties of Bergen, Passaic, Somerset, Essex, Middlesex and
Mercer for Individual Assistance and Public Assistance.
All counties within the State of New Jersey are eligible to apply
for assistance under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.
(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. 99-25174 Filed 9-27-99; 8:45 am]
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