Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Contact: Jessica Robinson, 573-751-0290
Blunt Asks to Add 5 Additional Counties for Federal Assistance
JEFFERSON CITY– Based on additional May flooding damaged infrastructure information from the State Emergency Management Agency, Gov. Matt Blunt will ask President Bush to consider adding five more Missouri counties to the federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance.
"The emergency protective services and public infrastructure damages caused by the May flooding in these five counties totaled $1,816,073," Blunt said. "I am asking the President to approve my request to help ensure that these additional counties will have the ability to rebuild their damaged infrastructure."
Blunt is asking the president to add the following counties: Caldwell, Clinton, Lafayette, Linn and Sullivan.
If the president approves Blunt's request for the five additional counties, Public Assistance will reimburse jurisdictions for their eligible emergency protective actions, repairs, or replacement of damaged infrastructure, and debris clearance.
On June 11, the president approved Blunt's request for 19 counties for a disaster declaration for Public Assistance. The initial 19 counties included: Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Daviess, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Howard, Livingston, Mercer, Nodaway, Platte, Ray, Saline and Worth.