[Federal Register: December 7, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 234)]
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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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