FEMA PROVIDES $1.2 MILLION TO MCCONE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE FOLLOWING
2021 STORMS
[https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20220816/fema-provides-12-million-mccone-electric-cooperative-following-2021-storms]


Release Date: 
Tháng 8 16, 2022 

DENVER – FEMA has approved an additional $1.2 million in Public
Assistance funding to help Montanans recover from severe storms that
impacted five northeast Montana counties in June of 2021. The
assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration
issued August 13, 2021. FEMA has now provided more than $3.66 million
in total Public Assistance funds for the disaster recovery effort in
northeast Montana.

FEMA Public Assistance funds were awarded to the McCone Electric
Cooperative for the cost of restoring electric service after
straight-line winds caused extensive damage to the utility’s
distribution and transmission systems in Dawson, Richland, McCone, and
Garfield counties. To restore the power distribution system, the
cooperative replaced power poles and transformers along with the
necessary hardware and crossarms.

Additionally, the McCone Electric Cooperative proposed hazard
mitigation to strengthen the power lines by adding a combination of
“storm” guy system, and steel channel ground line reinforcement to
allow the overhead power system to better withstand the transverse
load from winds.

FEMA’s Public Assistance reimbursements are made on a cost-sharing
basis to states, tribes, counties, municipalities, and certain private
nonprofit organizations for emergency work and restoration of
infrastructure. The approved federal grant represents 90 percent of
the total cost of the project.

FEMA’s Public Assistance program covers eligible disaster-related
debris removal, emergency protective measures, and the repair or
rebuilding of public facilities such as roads, bridges, water control
facilities, buildings, equipment, public utilities, parks and
recreational facilities.

Additional information about FEMA’s Public Assistance program can be
found at www.fema.gov/assistance/public
[http://www.fema.gov/assistance/public].

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