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President Obama Signs Emergency Declaration for Minnesota

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secrectary
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For Immediate Release                                 March 26, 2009

President Obama Signs Emergency Declaration for Minnesota
The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Minnesota and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local response efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding beginning on March 16, 2009, 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 the counties of Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk, Traverse, and Wilkin.
Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding.