[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 59 (Wednesday, March 26, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16031-16032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-6130]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[FEMA-3284-EM]
Texas; Emergency and Related Determinations
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an
emergency for the State of Texas (FEMA-3284-EM), dated March 14, 2008,
and related determinations.
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DATES: Effective Date: March 14, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Miller, Disaster Assistance
Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-2705.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter
dated March 14, 2008, the President declared an emergency declaration
under the authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5206 (the Stafford Act), as
follows:
I have determined that the emergency conditions in certain areas
of the State of Texas resulting from wildfires beginning on March
14, 2008, and continuing, are of sufficient severity and magnitude
to warrant an emergency declaration under the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5206
(the Stafford Act). Therefore, I declare that such an emergency
exists in the State of Texas.
You are authorized 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 designated areas. Specifically, you are
authorized to provide assistance for emergency protective measures
(Category B), limited to direct Federal assistance, under the Public
Assistance program. This assistance excludes regular time costs for
subgrantees' regular employees. In addition, you are authorized to
provide such other forms of assistance under Title V of the Stafford
Act as you may deem appropriate.
Consistent with the requirement that Federal assistance be
supplemental, any Federal funds provided under the Stafford Act for
Public Assistance will be limited to 75 percent of the total
eligible costs.
In order to provide Federal assistance, you are hereby
authorized to allocate from funds available for these purposes such
amounts as you find necessary for Federal emergency assistance and
administrative expenses.
Further, you are authorized to make changes to this declaration
to the extent allowable under the Stafford Act.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice
that pursuant to the authority vested in the Administrator, Department
of Homeland Security, under Executive Order 12148, as amended, Kenneth
G. Clark, of FEMA, is appointed to act as the Federal Coordinating
Officer for this declared emergency.
The following areas of the State of Texas have been designated as
adversely affected by this declared emergency:
The counties of Anderson, Andrews, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa,
Bailey, Bandera, Baylor, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque,
Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell,
Callahan, Carson, Castro, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke,
Coleman, Collin, Collingsworth, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke,
Coryell, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dawson, Deaf Smith,
Delta, Denton, Dickens, Dimmit, Duval, Eastland, Ector, Edwards,
Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Frio, Gaines,
Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Gonzales, Gray, Grayson, Guadalupe,
Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Haskell, Hays, Hemphill,
Hidalgo, Hill, Hockley, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Hudspeth,
Hunt, Hutchinson, Irion, Jack, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells,
Johnson, Jones, Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King,
Kinney, Kleberg, Knox, LaSalle, Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, Liberty,
Limestone, Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin,
Mason, Maverick, McCulloch, McLennan, Medina, Menard, Midland,
Milam, Mills, Mitchell, Montague, Montgomery, Moore, Motley,
Navarro, Nolan, Nueces, Oldham, Orange, Palo Pinto, Parker, Parmer,
Pecos, Potter, Presidio, Rains, Randall, Reagan, Real, Reeves,
Refugio, Robertson, Rockwall, Runnels, Rusk, San Saba, Schleicher,
Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Swisher,
Tarrant, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Travis,
Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Walker, Waller, Ward,
Washington, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Willacy, Williamson,
Wilson, Winkler, Wise, Young, Zapata, and Zavala for emergency
protective measures (Category B), limited to direct Federal
assistance, under the Public Assistance program.
(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; 97.032, Crisis Counseling;
97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment
Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 97.048,
Disaster Housing Assistance to Individuals and Households In
Presidential Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidential Declared
Disaster Assistance--Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals and
Households; 97.050, Presidential Declared Disaster Assistance to
Individuals and Households--Other Needs; 97.036, Disaster Grants--
Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039,
Hazard Mitigation Grant.)
R. David Paulison,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. E8-6130 Filed 3-25-08; 8:45 am]
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