[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 59 (Wednesday, March 26, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16031-16032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-6130]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[FEMA-3284-EM]


Texas; Emergency and Related Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an 
emergency for the State of Texas (FEMA-3284-EM), dated March 14, 2008, 
and related determinations.

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DATES: Effective Date: March 14, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Miller, Disaster Assistance 
Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-2705.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter 
dated March 14, 2008, the President declared an emergency declaration 
under the authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5206 (the Stafford Act), as 
follows:

    I have determined that the emergency conditions in certain areas 
of the State of Texas resulting from wildfires beginning on March 
14, 2008, and continuing, are 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. 5121-5206 
(the Stafford Act). Therefore, I declare that such an emergency 
exists in the State of Texas.
    You are authorized to provide appropriate assistance for 
required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the 
Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public 
health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a 
catastrophe in the designated areas. Specifically, you are 
authorized to provide assistance for emergency protective measures 
(Category B), limited to direct Federal assistance, under the Public 
Assistance program. This assistance excludes regular time costs for 
subgrantees' regular employees. In addition, you are authorized to 
provide such other forms of assistance under Title V of the Stafford 
Act as you may deem appropriate.
    Consistent with the requirement that Federal assistance be 
supplemental, any Federal funds provided under the Stafford Act for 
Public Assistance will be limited to 75 percent of the total 
eligible costs.
    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 emergency assistance and 
administrative expenses.
    Further, you are authorized to make changes to this declaration 
to the extent allowable under the Stafford Act.

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice 
that pursuant to the authority vested in the Administrator, Department 
of Homeland Security, under Executive Order 12148, as amended, Kenneth 
G. Clark, of FEMA, is appointed to act as the Federal Coordinating 
Officer for this declared emergency.
    The following areas of the State of Texas have been designated as 
adversely affected by this declared emergency:

    The counties of Anderson, Andrews, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa, 
Bailey, Bandera, Baylor, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, 
Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, 
Callahan, Carson, Castro, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, 
Coleman, Collin, Collingsworth, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, 
Coryell, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dawson, Deaf Smith, 
Delta, Denton, Dickens, Dimmit, Duval, Eastland, Ector, Edwards, 
Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Frio, Gaines, 
Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Gonzales, Gray, Grayson, Guadalupe, 
Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hansford, Hardeman, Haskell, Hays, Hemphill, 
Hidalgo, Hill, Hockley, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Hudspeth, 
Hunt, Hutchinson, Irion, Jack, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, 
Johnson, Jones, Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, 
Kinney, Kleberg, Knox, LaSalle, Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, Liberty, 
Limestone, Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, 
Mason, Maverick, McCulloch, McLennan, Medina, Menard, Midland, 
Milam, Mills, Mitchell, Montague, Montgomery, Moore, Motley, 
Navarro, Nolan, Nueces, Oldham, Orange, Palo Pinto, Parker, Parmer, 
Pecos, Potter, Presidio, Rains, Randall, Reagan, Real, Reeves, 
Refugio, Robertson, Rockwall, Runnels, Rusk, San Saba, Schleicher, 
Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Swisher, 
Tarrant, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Travis, 
Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Walker, Waller, Ward, 
Washington, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Willacy, Williamson, 
Wilson, Winkler, Wise, Young, Zapata, and Zavala for emergency 
protective measures (Category B), limited to direct Federal 
assistance, under the Public Assistance program.

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers (CFDA) 
are to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, Community 
Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 
97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment 
Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 97.048, 
Disaster Housing Assistance to Individuals and Households In 
Presidential Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidential Declared 
Disaster Assistance--Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals and 
Households; 97.050, Presidential Declared Disaster Assistance to 
Individuals and Households--Other Needs; 97.036, Disaster Grants--
Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039, 
Hazard Mitigation Grant.)

R. David Paulison,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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