{"id":670595,"date":"2010-02-20T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T17:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f24\/president-obama-signs-maryland-disaster-declaration-39741\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:48:32","slug":"president-obama-signs-maryland-disaster-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/670595","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Signs Maryland Disaster Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>02.19.10 05:23 PM<\/p>\n<p>The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Maryland and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by a severe winter storm and snowstorm during the period of December 18-20, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Federal funding is available to State and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency protective measures in the counties of Baltimore, Caroline, Cecil, Harford, Howard, Kent, Montgomery, and Queen Anne&amp;rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, assistance is available to the State and eligible local governments on a cost-sharing basis for emergency protective measures, including snow assistance, for a continuous 48-hour period during or proximate to the incident period.<\/p>\n<p>W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Regis Leo Phelan as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.  <\/p>\n<p>FEMA said additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by the State and warranted by the results of further damage assessments.<\/p>\n<p>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  FEMA (202) 646-3272.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/president-obama-signs-maryland-disaster-declaration\" >White House.gov Press Office Feed<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02.19.10 05:23 PM The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Maryland and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by a severe winter storm and snowstorm during the period of December 18-20, 2009. Federal funding is available to State and eligible local governments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Os3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771986,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670595\/revisions\/771986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}