FEMA - Declared Disasters & Emergencies - Minnesota

Minnesota Severe Storms and Flooding
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:01:16 -0500

Major Disaster Declaration number 1941 declared on Oct 13, 2010

Public Assistance
(Assistance to State and local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations for emergency work and the repair or replacement of disaster-damaged facilities):

Blue Earth, Cottonwood, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Goodhue, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin, Mower, Murray, Olmsted, Pipestone, Rice, Rock, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonwan, and Winona Counties. Direct Federal assistance is authorized.

Summary for Storm at:
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=13432

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President Declares Major Disaster For Minnesota
Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:56:21 -0500

WASHINGTON -- The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Craig Fugate announced today that federal aid is available to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and flooding beginning on September 22, 2010 and continuing.

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Emergency Declarations
Declaration Date: March 19, 2010
Incident Type: Flooding
Incident Period: March 1, 2010, and continuing
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=12509

The Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is authorized 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, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the designated areas. Specifically, FEMA is authorized to provide emergency protective measures (Category B), limited to direct Federal assistance, under the Public Assistance program at 75 percent Federal funding.

This assistance is for the counties of Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Clay, Dakota, Goodhue, Hennepin, Kittson, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Lyon, Marshall, Nicollet, Norman, Polk, Ramsey, Redwood, Renville, Scott, Sibley, Swift, Traverse, Washington, Wilkin, Wright, and Yellow Medicine and the Tribal Nation of the Upper Sioux Community.

MAP - (includes Reservations)
http://www.gismaps.fema.gov/2010graphics/em3310/em_3310.pdf