York County Get Funds to Reduce Wind Damage
Release Date: March 24, 2000
Release Number: R3-00-07
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- The County of York, Virginia, will receive funding for a $7,762 hazard-mitigation project to reduce the risk of potential wind damage.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved the county's project to install impact resistant glass I windows at its Emergency Operations Center. The facility is vulnerable to extremely high winds associated with tornadoes, storms and hurricanes.
FEMA will release $5,822 to the state of Virginia as the federal share - 75 percent - of the estimated project cost. Local and state jurisdictions will provide the remaining 25 percent.
The federal funds come from FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, which is intended to reduce risk from future disasters by breaking the disaster-repair-disaster cycle, thus saving economic and emotional costs.
Communities present hazard-mitigation proposals to their states. The states select from among these proposals, using their own criteria. FEMA reviews the states' choices to make sure they comply with federal law and are cost effective. If the proposals pass these tests, FEMA releases the funds to the states.
Hazard-mitigation funds are limited. The money available is an additional amount equivalent to 15 percent of the federal money spent on response and recovery operations in a federally declared disaster.
Last Modified: Tuesday, 18-Nov-2003 15:09:19