[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 51 (Monday, March 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 12645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-6671]


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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
[FEMA-1161-DR]


South Dakota; Major Disaster 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 a major 
disaster for the State of South Dakota (FEMA-1161-DR), dated February 
28, 1997, and related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 28, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Magda Ruiz, Response and Recovery 
Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC 20472, 
(202) 646-3260.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter 
dated February 28, 1997, the President declared a major disaster 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 damage in certain areas of the State 
of South Dakota, resulting from a severe winter storm beginning on 
November 13, 1996, and continuing through November 26, 1996, is of 
sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant a major disaster 
declaration under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (''the Stafford Act''). I, therefore, 
declare that such a major disaster exists in the State of South 
Dakota.
    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 disaster assistance and 
administrative expenses.
    You are authorized to provide Public Assistance and Hazard 
Mitigation in the designated areas. Consistent with the requirement 
that Federal assistance be supplemental, any Federal funds provided 
under the Stafford Act for Public Assistance or Hazard Mitigation 
will be limited to 75 percent of the total eligible costs.

    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 Roger E. Free of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency to act as the Federal Coordinating Officer for this 
declared disaster.
    I do hereby determine the following areas of the State of South 
Dakota to have been affected adversely by this declared major disaster:

The counties of Butte, Harding, Hutchinson, Lake, Meade, Minnehaha, 
Moody, Pennington, Perkins and Turner for Public Assistance and 
Hazard Mitigation.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 83.516, Disaster 
Assistance)
James L. Witt,
Director.
[FR Doc. 97-6671 Filed 3-14-97; 8:45 am]
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