President Declares Emergency Disaster for Massachusetts and New Hampshire for Severe Winter Storms
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Release Number: FNF-08-088
Over this past weekend, the President declared an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of New Hampshire. He ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the areas struck by a severe winter storm beginning on December 11, 2008, and continuing.
The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 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 and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in affected counties.
Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding.
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Last Modified: Monday, 15-Dec-2008 09:23:52