PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP SIGNS EMERGENCY DECLARATION FOR KANSAS
[https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230425/president-donald-j-trump-signs-emergency-declaration-kansas]


Release Date: 
May 28, 2019 

WASHINGTON —  FEMA announces that federal emergency aid has been
made available to the state of Kansas to supplement state, tribal and
local response efforts to the emergency conditions in the area
affected by flooding beginning on May 9, 2019, 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 Act, to save lives and to protect property and 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
assistance will be provided Anderson, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee,
Coffey, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Franklin, Greenwood, Harvey,
Montgomery, Neosho, Osage, Reno, Sumner, Wilson, and Woodson counties.

David Gervino has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for
federal response operations in the affected area. Gervino said that
additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by
the state and warranted by the results of further damage
assessments. 

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