Billing Code 9110-10

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Notice of Adjustment of Statewide Per Capita Threshold for
Recommending a Cost Share Adjustment

AGENCY:  Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency
Preparedness and Response Directorate, Department of Homeland
Security. 

ACTION:  Notice.

SUMMARY:   FEMA gives notice that we are increasing the statewide
per capita threshold for recommending cost share adjustments for
disasters declared on or after January 1, 2004, through December
31, 2004.

DATES:  Effective Date:  [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN
FEDERAL REGISTER.]  Applicability Date:  This notice applies to
major disasters declared on or after January 1, 2004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Magda Ruiz, Recovery
Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington,
DC  20472,  (202) 646-2705.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  Pursuant to 44 CFR § 206.47,
FEMA annually adjusts the statewide per capita threshold that is
used to recommend an increase of the Federal cost share from
seventy-five percent (75%) to not more than ninety percent (90%)
of the eligible cost of permanent work under section 406 and
emergency work under section 403 and section 407 of the Stafford
Act.  The adjustment to the threshold is based on the Consumer Price
Index for All Urban Consumers published annually by the U.S.
Department of Labor. For disasters declared on January 1, 2004, 
through December 31, 2004, the qualifying threshold is $106 of State
population.      
       We base the adjustment on an increase in the Consumer Price 
		 Index for All Urban Consumers of 1.9 percent for the 12-month 
		 period ended in December 2003.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics 
		 of the U.S. Department of Labor released the information on 
		 January 15, 2004.
     
(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers (CFDA) 
are to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, Community 
Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora Brown Fund Program; 97.032, Crisis 
Counseling; 97.033, Disaster Legal Services Program; 97.034, Disaster 
Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management Assistance; 
97.048, Individual and Household Housing; 97.049, Individual and 
Household Disaster Housing Operations; 97.050 Individual and 
Household Program-Other Needs, 97.036, Public Assistance Grants; 
97.039, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.)
	

/s/
____________________________________________
Michael D. Brown,
Under Secretary, 
Emergency Preparedness and Response,
Department of Homeland Security.