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President Donald J. Trump Approves Wyoming Disaster Declaration

President Donald J. Trump Approves Wyoming Disaster Declaration

 

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 6, 2017

 

President Donald J. Trump Approves Wyoming Disaster Declaration

 

Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Wyoming and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by flooding from June 7 to June 22, 2017.

 

Federal funding is available to State, tribal, and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the flooding in the counties of Fremont and Park and the Wind River Reservation within Fremont County.

 

Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.  

 

Brock Long, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Thomas J. McCool as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected areas. 

 

Additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by the State and warranted by the results of further damage assessments.

 

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Liberal Anti-Trump Media Matters Goes All In for Embattled Gen. McMaster


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