Trump has already signaled a departure from typical decision-making around disaster declarations. He has denied requests from Washington and West Virginia. Just this week, he approved a major disaster declarat
After Washingtons storms, then-Gov. Jay Inslee issued a disaster declaration in 11 counties including where Seattle is located and filed the application for disaster relief with FEMA to repair damage to public highways, public utilities and electrical power systems.FEMAs letter denying the applicat...
A major disaster declaration, issued after catastrophes occur, constitutes broader authority for federal agencies to provide supplemental assistance to help state and local governments, families and individuals, and certain nonprofit organizations recover from the incident. The disaster declaration procedure ...
FEMA comes in to aid only after the governor of the involved state has declared a state of emergency and has made a formal request. However, there is an exception to the gubernatorial declaration requirement, when an emergency occurs on a federal property such as the Space Shuttle Columbia ...
The federal government doesn’t help with every disaster — it generally has to be above the ability of a community or state to handle. A governor or tribal authority in that case asks the president for an emergency declaration. When there is warning— as with hurricanes ...
The federal government doesn’t help with every disaster — it generally has to be above the ability of a community or state to handle. In that case, the governor or tribal authority asks the president for an emergency declaration. Once declared, FEMA assistance varies widely. Public assistance...
Instead, the governor of an affected state or the chief executive of an affected tribal governmentmust ask the presidentfor a disaster declaration. The request can be made before or after a storm hits but must show that the disaster is of such a severity and magnitude that the state, local...
Criswell said that the recovery process could extend for several months and even years to fully restore the community to its pre-disaster state. However, she also expressed optimism that the community would emerge stronger than ever with the assistance of FEMA and the state governme...
(Standards may be different for new construction and repair work) (2)Be appropriate to the predisaster use of the facility; (3) (i)Be found reasonable, in writing, and formally adopted and implemented by the State or local government on or before thedisaster declaration date or be a legal...
Their concern comes as the agency is being asked to tackle a growing number of problems, such as pandemic relief. Thomas Frank 12/04/2024, 11:00am ET In 2019, then-President Donald Trump took $155 million from the federal government’s main disaster fund and used it to build immigration...