{"id":682287,"date":"2010-03-04T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f24\/president-obama-signs-district-columbia-disaster-declaration-40323\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:54:08","slug":"president-obama-signs-district-of-columbia-disaster-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682287","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Signs District of Columbia Disaster Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.03.10 06:58 PM<\/p>\n<p>The President today declared a major disaster exists in the District of Columbia and ordered Federal aid to supplement the District&amp;rsquo;s 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 the District of Columbia and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe winter storm and snowstorm.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, assistance is available to the District of Columbia 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>Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures for the District of Columbia.<\/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 District of Columbia 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-district-columbia-disaster-declaration\" >White House.gov Press Office Feed<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.03.10 06:58 PM The President today declared a major disaster exists in the District of Columbia and ordered Federal aid to supplement the District&amp;rsquo;s 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 the District of Columbia and certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-682287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RuD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682287","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=682287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}