[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1679-1680]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-482]


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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

[FEMA-3159-EM]


Arkansas; 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 State of Arkansas (FEMA-3159-EM), dated December 28, 
2000, and related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 28, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madge Dale, Response and Recovery 
Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC 20472, 
(202) 646-3772.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter 
dated December 28, 2000, the President declared an emergency under the 
authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency

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Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C 5121, et seq., as amended by the Disaster 
Mitigation Act of 2000, Pub. L. No. 106-390, 114 Stat. 1552 (2000), as 
follows:

    I have determined that the emergency conditions in certain areas 
of Arkansas, resulting from a severe winter ice storm beginning on 
December 12, 2000, and continuing, is 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, et seq., as amended by the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, 
Pub. L. No. 106-390, 114 Stat. 1552 (2000) (the Stafford Act). I, 
therefore, declare that such an emergency exists in the State of 
Arkansas.
    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, or to lessen or avert the threat of a 
catastrophe in the designated areas. You are further authorized to 
identify, mobilize, and provide at your discretion, equipment and 
resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency and 
such other forms of assistance under Title V of the Stafford Act, as 
you may deem appropriate. Specifically, you are authorized to 
provide debris removal (Category A) and emergency protective 
measures (Category B) at 75 percent Federal funding. This assistance 
excludes regular time costs for subgrantees' regular employees.
    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.
    Further, you are authorized to make changes to this declaration 
to the extent allowable under the Stafford Act.

    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 Joe Bray 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 State of Arkansas 
to have been affected adversely by this declared emergency:

    FEMA intends 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, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe 
in the designated areas. Specifically, FEMA is authorized to 
identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and 
resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. FEMA 
is further authorized to provide debris removal (Category A) and 
emergency protective measures (Category B) at 75 percent Federal 
funding.
    This assistance is for the counties of Arkansas, Benton, 
Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Crawford, Crittenden, 
Cross, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Faulkner, Franklin, Garland, Grant, Hot 
Spring, Howard, Hempstead, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lafayette, 
Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Logan, Lonoke, Madison, Miller, 
Mississippi, Monroe, Montgomery, Nevada, Ouachita, Perry, Pike, 
Polk, Poinsett, Prairie, Pulaski, St. Francis, Saline, Scott, 
Sebastian, Sevier, Washington, White, Woodruff, Union, and Yell.

(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. 01-482 Filed 1-8-01; 8:45 am]
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