Louisiana; Emergency and Related Determinations, 79497 [2020-27167]

Agencies

• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 238 (Thursday, December 10, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 79497]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-27167]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Internal Agency Docket No. FEMA-3549-EM; Docket ID FEMA-2020-0001]


Louisiana; 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 State of Louisiana (FEMA-3549-EM), dated October 27, 
2020, and related determinations.

DATES: The declaration was issued October 27, 2020.

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 27, 2020, 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 et seq. (the ``Stafford 
Act''), as follows:

    I have determined that the emergency conditions in certain areas 
of the State of Louisiana resulting from Tropical Storm Zeta 
beginning on October 26, 2020, 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 State of Louisiana.
    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 Public Assistance Category B emergency 
protective measures, including direct Federal assistance in selected 
areas and Public Assistance Category B emergency protective 
measures, limited to direct Federal assistance in the other 
designated areas.
    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, under 
Executive Order 12148, as amended, John E. Long, of FEMA is appointed 
to act as the Federal Coordinating Officer for this declared emergency.
    The following areas of the State of Louisiana have been designated 
as adversely affected by this declared emergency:

    Public Assistance Category B emergency protective measures, 
including direct federal assistance for the parishes of Acadia, 
Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, East 
Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Iberia, Iberville, 
Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Livingston, Lafayette, Lafourche, 
Orleans, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. 
Helena, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. 
Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermilion, Washington, 
West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana.
    Public Assistance Category B emergency protective measures, 
limited to direct federal assistance for the parishes of Avoyelles, 
Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne, 
Concordia, DeSoto, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, La Salle, 
Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Ouachita, Rapides, Red 
River, Richland, Sabine, Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West 
Carroll, and Winn.

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.

Pete Gaynor,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2020-27167 Filed 12-9-20; 8:45 am]
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