President Obama Signs Declaration
The President today declared an emergency exists
in the State of Louisiana and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local
response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm
Isaac beginning on August 26, 2012, 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 the parishes
of Ascension, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans,
Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John, St. Tammany,
Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, and Washington.
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.
W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named
Gerard M. Stolar as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery
operations in the affected area.
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