PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP APPROVES EMERGENCY DISASTER DECLARATION FOR
ARKANSAS
[https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20200827/president-donald-j-trump-approves-emergency-disaster-declaration-arkansas]


Release Date: 
8월 27, 2020 

WASHINGTON – FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made
available to the state of Arkansas to supplement state and local
response efforts to the emergency conditions in the area affected by
Hurricane Laura beginning Aug. 26, 2020, and continuing.

The President's action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster
relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and
suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to
provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures,
authorized under Title V of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act, to save lives, to protect property, public
health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe.

Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at
its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the
impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures (Category B),
limited to direct federal assistance under the Public Assistance
program, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding. This federal
assistance is for all counties in Arkansas.

Roland W. Jackson has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer
for federal response operations in the affected area.