PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP APPROVES EMERGENCY DISASTER DECLARATION FOR
MISSISSIPPI
[https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20200824/president-donald-j-trump-approves-emergency-disaster-declaration-mississippi]


Release Date: 
Tháng 8 24, 2020 

WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been
made available to the state of Mississippi to supplement state,
local and tribal response efforts to the emergency conditions in the
area affected by Tropical Storms Marco and Laura beginning on Aug.
23, 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 reimbursement for mass care including evacuation and
shelter support, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding. This
assistance is for the counties of Adams, Amite, Covington, Forrest,
Franklin, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson,
Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marion, Pearl River,
Perry, Pike, Stone, Walthall, Wayne and Wilkinson.

Brett H. Howard has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer
for federal response operations in the affected area.