[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 182 (Monday, September 21, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50240-50241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25186]


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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

[FEMA-1242-DR]


Commonwealth of Virginia; 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 Commonwealth of Virginia (FEMA-1242-DR), dated 
September 4, 1998, and related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 4, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madge Dale, 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 September 4, 1998, 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 
Commonwealth of Virginia, resulting from Hurricane Bonnie on August 
25, 1998, through and including September 1, 1998, is of sufficient 
severity and magnitude to warrant a major disaster declaration under 
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 
Pub.L. 93-288, as amended (``the Stafford Act''). I, therefore, 
declare that such a major disaster exists in the Commonwealth of 
Virginia.
    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 Individual 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 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 Robert J. Gunter of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency

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to act as the Federal Coordinating Officer for this declared disaster.
    I do hereby determine the following areas of the Commonwealth of 
Virginia to have been affected adversely by this declared major 
disaster:

    The independent cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, 
Suffolk, and Virginia Beach for Individual Assistance.

    All counties within the Commonwealth of Virginia are eligible to 
apply for assistance under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers (CFDA) 
are to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 83.537, Community 
Disaster Loans; 83.538, Cora Brown Fund Program; 83.539, Crisis 
Counseling; 83.540, Disaster Legal Services Program; 83.541, 
Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 83.542, Fire Suppression 
Assistance; 83.543, Individual and Family Grant (IFG) Program; 
83.544, Public Assistance Grants; 83.545, Disaster Housing Program; 
83.548, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program)
James L. Witt,
Director.
[FR Doc. 98-25186 Filed 9-18-98; 8:45 am]
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