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FEMA Amends Disaster Declaration to Include St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes
BATON ROUGE (September 4, 2008) – Today, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following letter amending the category A Individual Assistance Declaration to include the parishes St. Tammany and Tangipahoa.  

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Louisiana; Amendment No. 1 to Notice of a Major Disaster Declaration

AGENCY:  Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION:  Notice.

SUMMARY:  This notice amends the notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Louisiana (FEMA-1786-DR), dated

September 2, 2008, and related determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 4, 2008.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  The notice of a major disaster declaration for the State of Louisiana is hereby amended to include the following areas among those areas determined to have been adversely affected by the catastrophe declared a major disaster by the President in his declaration of

September 2, 2008.

 

St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes for Individual Assistance.

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 Presidentially Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance - Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals and Households; 97.050 Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals and Households - Other Needs, 97.036, Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters);

97.039, Hazard Mitigation Grant.)

 

 

/s/

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R. David Paulison,

 

Administrator,

 

Federal Emergency Management Agency.

 

 

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