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Washington: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency
Management Agency announced that federal emergency aid has been made available
to the state of Maryland to supplement state and local response efforts due to
the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Sandy beginning on October
26, 2012, and continuing.
The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland
Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all
disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and
suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and 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 all counties
and the Independent City of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
Specifically, FEMA is authorized to to identify, mobilize,
and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate
the impacts of the emergency. Emergency
protective measures, limited to direct federal assistance, will be provided at
75 percent federal funding.
Michael J. Lapinski has been named as the Federal
Coordinating Officer for federal response operations in the affected area.