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Earlier today, officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA updated the public on the role the agency is playing in the ongoing recovery effort following the January ice storms. KSMU's Missy Shelton reports.
Earlier today, officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA updated the public on the role the agency is playing in the ongoing recovery effort following the January ice storms.
Dan Best is the FEMA Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer for the response to the ice storms in Missouri.
Through the public assistance program, FEMA provides grants to local and state governments to cover certain storm-related expenses.
So far, FEMA has awarded 17 million dollars in grants to governmental entities and government-operated utilities in Missouri.
Dan Best says FEMA does not cover the all of the clean-up and recovery costs.
Dan Best says those eligibility requirements sometimes cause problems for local officials.
He acknowledges it does require a lot of paperwork.
Best says meeting those criteria is sometimes difficult for municipalities.
He says FEMA helps the entire community through the public assistance program by ensuring infrastructure is quickly repaired.
Best says FEMA would like to finish up its work on the ice storm as soon as possible since May is the agency's busiest month in Missouri because of tornados.
