Sentences with phrase «federal disaster last»
When the White House officially declared a major federal disaster last month for communities affected by the flooding along the Lake Ontario shore this spring and summer, Monroe County was conspicuously left off the list.
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But last year the Obama administration expanded the types of contracts that could fall into this category to include federal disaster zones.
After the disaster and criminal charges, representatives of various tribal nations stepped into the legal fray, filing a federal lawsuit last March against Ray and those who run the Angel Valley Retreat Center, where he had leased land for his program.
That money is part of the federal disaster relief funding that was approved three months after Sandy struck last October, and is now being allocated -LSB-...]
Cuomo's schedule, released last night, included a meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, at which he was to be joined by three Republican lawmakers from New York — Reps. Bob Turner, Michael Grimm and Pete King, on whom the governor is leaning quite heavily as he pushes for the $ 42 billion worth of federal disaster aid he's seeking after Sandy.
Federal disaster aid will be available to counties across western New York and the Adirondacks that were impacted by the lake effect snowstorm that buried parts of the region last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office announced on Monday.
Cuomo, in his prepared remarks released last night, said he plans today to urge President Obama to issue a disaster declaration for the area and free up aid through the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Ann Marie Buerkle, a Republican representing the Syracuse area who won her seat last year with Tea Party support, said that disaster relief was a «legitimate role of government» and that it should not be held up by the desire to identify reductions elsewhere in the federal budget.
In her last days at the Water Authority, Mulroy began to talk about the drought as a natural disaster — like a flood, which often garners federal aid money and a swift emergency response — just slower moving.
Federal disaster aid on the way Last week, the State Water Resources Control Board loosened some water quality standards in the delta in order to conserve water for users upstream.
It also builds on the disaster assistance efforts President Obama approved in the last several days, including major disaster declarations, which make federal assistance - like these emergency relief funds - available to supplement state and local response and recovery efforts.
In the 1990s, there was an average 46 federal disasters declared annually; last year, there were 81; this year there were 98.
A Government Accountability Office report released Monday said the federal government has spent more than $ 350 billion over the last decade on disaster assistance programs and losses from flood and crop insurance.