[Federal Register: January 5, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 2)]
[Notices]               
[Page 310-311]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[FEMA-3296-EM]

 
Massachusetts; 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 Commonwealth of Massachusetts (FEMA-3296-EM), dated 
December 13, 2008, and related determinations.

DATES: Effective Date: December 13, 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 December 13, 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. 5121-5207 (the Stafford 
Act), as follows:

    I have determined that the emergency conditions in certain areas 
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts resulting from a severe winter 
storm beginning on December 11, 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. 5121-5207 (the Stafford Act). 
Therefore, I declare that such an emergency exists in the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
    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

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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, Mark H. 
Landry, of FEMA is appointed to act as the Federal Coordinating Officer 
for this declared emergency.
    The following areas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have been 
designated as adversely affected by this declared emergency:

    Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, 
Middlesex, Suffolk, and Worcester Counties 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 
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.

R. David Paulison,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. E8-31293 Filed 1-2-09; 8:45 am]

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