[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 21 (Friday, January 31, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 5022]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-2241]



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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY


Notice of Adjustment of Statewide Per Capita Threshold for 
Recommending a Cost Share Adjustment

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: FEMA gives notice that we are increasing the statewide per 
capita threshold for recommending cost share adjustments for disasters 
declared on or after January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2003.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 16, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Magda Ruiz, Response and Recovery 
Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC 20472, 
(202) 646-2705, or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: According to 44 CFR Sec.  206.47, FEMA will 
annually adjust the statewide per capita threshold that is used to 
recommend an increase of the Federal cost share from seventy-five 
percent (75%) to not more than ninety percent (90%) of the eligible 
cost of permanent work under section 406 and emergency work under 
section 403 and section 407 of the Stafford Act. The adjustment to the 
threshold is based on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers 
published annually by the U. S. Department of Labor. For disasters 
declared on January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2003, the qualifying 
threshold is $104 per capita of State population.
    We base the adjustment on an increase in the Consumer Price Index 
for All Urban Consumers of 2.4 percent for the 12-month period ended in 
December 2002. The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of 
Labor released the information on January 16, 2003.

(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).
Joe M. Allbaugh,
Director.
[FR Doc. 03-2241 Filed 1-30-03; 8:45 am]
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