Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; Emergency and Related Determinations, 56359 [2018-24675]

Agencies

• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 13, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 56359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24675]



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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-3408-EM]; [Docket ID FEMA-2018-0001]


Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; Emergency and 
Related Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice of the Presidential declaration of an 
emergency for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (FEMA-
3408-EM), dated October 23, 2018, and related determinations.

DATES: The declaration was issued October 23, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dean Webster, Office of Response and 
Recovery, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street SW, 
Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-2833.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that, in a letter 
dated October 23, 2018, the President issued an emergency declaration 
under the authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5207 (the Stafford Act), as 
follows:

    I have determined that the emergency conditions in the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands resulting from Typhoon 
Yutu beginning on October 24, 2018, and continuing, are of 
sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant an emergency 
declaration under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq. (``the Stafford 
Act''). Therefore, I declare that such an emergency exists in the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
    You are authorized to 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 designated areas. Specifically, you are 
authorized to provide assistance for emergency protective measures 
(Category B), limited to direct Federal assistance, under the Public 
Assistance program.
    Consistent with the requirement that Federal assistance be 
supplemental, any Federal funds provided under the Stafford Act for 
Public Assistance will be limited to 75 percent of the total 
eligible costs. In order to provide Federal assistance, you are 
hereby authorized to allocate from funds available for these 
purposes such amounts as you find necessary for Federal emergency 
assistance and administrative expenses.
    Further, you are authorized to make changes to this declaration 
for the approved assistance to the extent allowable under the 
Stafford Act.

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice 
that pursuant to the authority vested in the Administrator, Department 
of Homeland Security, under Executive Order 12148, as amended, Benigno 
Bern Ruiz, of FEMA is appointed to act as the Federal Coordinating 
Officer for this declared emergency.
    The following areas of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands have been designated as adversely affected by this declared 
emergency:

The municipalities of Rota, Saipan, Tinian, and the Northern Islands 
for emergency protective measures (Category B), limited to direct 
Federal assistance, under the Public Assistance program.

The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are 
to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, Community Disaster 
Loans; 97.031, Cora Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 97.033, 
Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment Assistance 
(DUA); 97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 97.048, Disaster 
Housing Assistance to Individuals and Households In Presidentially 
Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, Presidentially Declared Disaster 
Assistance--Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals and Households; 
97.050, Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals and 
Households--Other Needs; 97.036, Disaster Grants--Public Assistance 
(Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039, Hazard Mitigation Grant.


Brock Long,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2018-24675 Filed 11-9-18; 8:45 am]
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