Disaster Management Agency

• Debris Continues After Last Week's Floods; Food Distributed

Staff Writer Lancaster County officials said they expect Federal Emergency Management Agency teams to set up a disaster recovery center in East Hempfield Township any day.

• Intelligencer Journal Lancaster New Era - Saturday Edition
• September 15, 2011

• Pre-Disaster Emergency Declaration Requests, FD 010-4

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is accepting comments on Pre-Disaster Emergency Declaration Requests.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 12610, March 01, 2012
• Notices
• Homeland Security Department

• Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: ACF Disaster Case Management Implementation Guide

• FR, April 01, 2010
• Notices
• Children and Families Administration

• Fema Works to Redeem Reputation: Hurricane Katrina

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The messages came in a fast and furious onslaught: a series of massively powerful tornadoes were ripping across Alabama and other parts of the South. On the receiving end of frantic descriptions of entire neighborhoods wiped out by last week's pulverizing storms that killed 328, Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate urged President Barack Obama to immediately sign an emergency disaster declaration for Alabama.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• May 04, 2011

• Flood Hazard Determinations (Including Flood Elevation Determinations)-Change in Notification and Appeal Procedures

Pursuant to the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), via the Federal Insurance Administrator, must publish flood elevation determinations for comment in the Federal Register. Currently, FEMA publishes base flood elevation (BFE) determinations for Flood Insurance Studies (FISs, also referred to as flood studies) as proposed and final rules, and Letters of Map Revision (LOMRs) that include changes to the technical content of a Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) or FIS as interim and final rules. FEMA now plans to publish these determinations as notices rather than as rules. This new procedure will not affect the notice or appeals process for these determinations. FEMA also plans to publish other types of flood hazard determinations in the Fed...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 72961, November 28, 2011
• Notices
• Homeland Security Department

• Technology

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee approved the FY12 Homeland Security Appropriations bill. As part of the Homeland Security bill, the Committee passed an amendment to add $1 billion in funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) disaster relief fund, offset by reducing funding from the Advanced Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program at the Department of Energy.

• U.S. Newswire
• May 25, 2011

• Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster assistance checks and Government benefit checks; cashing and deposit guidance,

• FR, September 20, 2005
• Notices
• Fiscal Service

• Assistance On the Way; Fema to Open 2 More Area Centers

Two additional Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Recovery Centers will open Thursday in East Haven and Guilford, the governor's office announced Tuesday. The centers are intended to assist homeowners and businesses affected by Hurricane-turned-Tropical Storm Irene. The centers will be at the East Haven Beach House, 160 Cosey Beach Ave., and the Guilford Police Department Community Room, 400 Church St.

• New Haven Register
• September 14, 2011

• Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster assistance checks and Government benefit checks; cashing and deposit guidance,

• FR, September 23, 2005
• Notices
• Fiscal Service

• Officials Seek Federal Storm Aid -- Financial Burden for Mlgw, Governments

To save taxpayers and Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division customers from paying a large part of the bill for cleaning up after Tuesday's storm, local officials hope President Barack Obama will declare the damage a federal disaster. Under a presidential disaster declaration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency can offer public assistance grants that would reimburse 75 percent of the costs borne by state and local governments and utilities.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• April 22, 2011