Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Three major disaster declarations affecting dozens of Texas countiessome on multiple occasionswill result in nearly one quarter-billion dollars in federal assistance to repair or replace damaged infrastructure.
FEMA said today that combined federal aid for severe weather disasters in May-June 2015; October 2015 and January 2016 will help fund recovery efforts for 3087 individual projects among 569 applicants for Public Assistance.
Public Assistance is an element of FEMAs disaster response that benefits everyoneneighborhoods cities and states as well as certain private nonprofit organizationsby reimbursing eligible work on damaged publicly-owned infrastructure.
PA dollars:
- clean up the community and repair bridges
- put water systems and utilities back in order
- repair hospitals and emergency services
- rebuild libraries and replace damaged books
- rebuild schools and universities and
- restore damaged public parks so families can enjoy them again.
FEMA provides a minimum of 75 percent of the cost to repair or replace disaster-damaged infrastructure.
PA projects are developed and approved by local state and federal officials and work is continuing on many. Payments are usually made on a reimbursement basis.
Public Assistance funding applicants can include:
- state agencies
- local and county governments
- private nonprofit organizations that own or operate facilities that provide essential government-type services
Recovery work also continues on disasters resulting from storms this year in March April and May-June.
