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Iowa
Receives
Presidential Disaster Declaration
Posted 17 August 2010
29 Iowa counties have
been granted a Presidential Disaster Declaration for Individual
Assistance.
“I am pleased to see the Presidential Disaster Declaration for these
counties,” Culver said. “We will continue to assess the
flood-related damages and get Iowans the assistance they need to
recover from the recent severe weather and flooding.”
The disaster declaration makes federal assistance available to affected
individuals and families in these 29 counties. Disaster assistance can
include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans
to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help
individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the
disaster.
The counties included in the declaration are: Black Hawk, Cherokee,
Clayton, Decatur, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Franklin, Hamilton,
Howard, Humboldt, Ida, Jackson, Jones, Kossuth, Lee, Lucas, Lyon,
Marion, O’Brien, Osceola, Ringgold, Sioux, Story, Taylor, Union,
Warren, Webster, and Wright.
The State will ask for joint preliminary damage assessments to be
conducted with FEMA and local officials in counties most recently
impacted by the flooding and to request Individual Assistance be
granted for those counties.
Residents and business owners who sustained losses in the designated
counties may immediately begin registering for assistance online at http://www.disasterassistance.gov
or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA(3362) or 1-800-462-7585 (TTY) for the
hearing and speech impaired. The toll-free telephone numbers will
operate from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. (local time). Applicants registering for
aid should be prepared to provide basic information about themselves,
details on insurance coverage, and any other information to help
substantiate losses.
The declaration follows a visit to Iowa today by FEMA Region VII
Regional Administrator Beth Freeman. Freeman joined Governor Culver on
a tour of damaged areas in Des Moines and Colfax, and also made a stop
in Oskaloosa.
“Today, I visited communities throughout central Iowa to get a
firsthand look at the damages caused by recent flooding,” said Freeman.
“Citizens and entire communities have rallied together to fight the
floodwaters and they should be commended. I also compliment the state
and local officials who have worked quickly to provide residents with
important commodities and taken other critical steps to protect life
and property.”
These 29 counties that have been declared for Individual Assistance
will be added to the Presidential Disaster Declaration that authorized
Public Assistance funding for 32 counties on July 29 and 18 counties on
August 13. Public Assistance funds are available to state and
local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations
(including rural electric cooperatives and municipal utilities) for
emergency work and the repair or replacement of disaster-damaged
facilities.
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