[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 218 (Friday, November 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57873-57874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28763]


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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
[FEMA-3119-EM]


Massachusetts; Emergency and Related Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an 
emergency for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (FEMA-3119-EM), dated 
October 23, 1996, and related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 23, 1996.


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pauline C. Campbell, Response and 
Recovery Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, 
DC 20472, (202) 646-3606.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter 
dated October 23, 1996, the President declared an emergency under the 
authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), as follows:

    I have determined that the extreme weather conditions and 
flooding beginning on October 20, 1996, and continuing in the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts are of sufficient severity and 
magnitude to warrant an emergency declaration under subsection 
501(a) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (the Stafford Act). I, therefore, declare that such 
an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
    You are authorized 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, protect property 
and public health and safety, and lessen or avert the threat of a 
catastrophe in the designated areas. Specifically, you are 
authorized to provide assistance for debris removal and emergency 
protective measures as authorized under subsection 502(a) (4) and 
(5), excluding regular time costs for subgrantees' regular 
employees, and disaster housing as authorized under subsection 
502(a)(6).
    In order to provide Federal assistance, you are hereby 
authorized to coordinate and direct other Federal agencies and fund 
activities not authorized under other Federal statutes and allocate 
from funds available for these purposes, such amounts as you find 
necessary for Federal emergency assistance and administrative 
expenses.
    Pursuant to this emergency declaration, you are authorized to 
provide emergency assistance as you deem appropriate under Title V 
of the Stafford Act at 75 percent Federal funding.

    The time period prescribed for the implementation of section 
310(a), Priority to Certain Applications for Public Facility and Public 
Housing Assistance, 42 U.S.C. 5153, shall be for a period not to exceed 
six months after the date of this declaration.
    Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the authority vested in the 
Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under Executive 
Order 12148, I hereby appoint Alma C. Armstrong of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency to act as the Federal Coordinating Officer 
for this declared emergency.
    I do hereby determine the following areas of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts to have been affected adversely by this declared 
emergency:

    The counties of Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk.
    FEMA has been authorized to provide Federal funding for disaster 
housing, debris removal, and emergency protective measures as 
authorized under Title V subsections 502(a) (4), (5), and (6).

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 83.516, Disaster 
Assistance)
James L. Witt,
Director.
[FR Doc. 96-28763 Filed 11-7-96; 8:45 am]
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