Today,
President Trump declared that an emergency exists in the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and ordered
Federal assistance to supplement commonwealth and local response
efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Maria
beginning on September 17, 2017, and continuing.
The
President’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security,
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),
to coordinate all disaster relief efforts. This action will help
alleviate the hardship and suffering that the emergency may inflict on
the local population, and provide appropriate assistance for required
emergency measures, authorized under title V of the
Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property, and ensure public health
and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in all
78 municipalities in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Specifically,
FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide, at its
discretion, equipment and resources
necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Debris removal
and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance,
will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding.
Brock
Long, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),
Department of Homeland Security, named Alejandro DeLaCampa as the
Federal Coordinating Officer for
Federal recovery operations in the affected areas.
Source: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
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