PRESIDENT TRUMP APPROVES MAJOR DISASTER DECLARATION FOR WASHINGTON
[https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230425/president-trump-approves-major-disaster-declaration-washington]


Release Date: 
April 21, 2017 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) announced that federal disaster assistance has been made
available to the State of Washington to supplement state, tribal, and
local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms,
flooding, landslides, and mudslides from January 30 to February 22,
2017.

Federal funding is available to state, tribal, and eligible local
governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a
cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of
facilities damaged by severe winter storms, flooding, landslides, and
mudslides in the Adams, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Grant, Lewis,
Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Skamania, Spokane, Wahkiakum, Walla Walla, and
Whatcom counties.

Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard
mitigation measures statewide.

Thomas J. Dargan has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer
for federal recovery operations in the affected area. Dargan said
additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by
the state and warranted by the results of damage assessments. 

 

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