WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2017 — President Donald J. Trump today
declared that an emergency exists in the state of Louisiana and ordered federal
assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local response efforts due to the emergency
conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Harvey beginning on Aug. 27, 2017, and
continuing, according to a White House news release.
The president’s action authorizes the Department of Homeland
Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster
relief efforts, the release said. This action will help alleviate the hardship
and suffering that the emergency has inflicted on the local population, and
provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized
under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and
public health and safety and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in
the Louisiana parishes of Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis and
Vermillion.
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, including direct
federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent federal funding, the release
said.
FEMA Administrator Brock Long named William J. Doran III as
the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the
affected areas.
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