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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the
State of Utah and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local
recovery efforts in the area affected by a severe storm and flooding on
September 11, 2012.
Federal funding is available to state 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 severe storm and flooding in Washington County.
Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.
W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Gary R. Stanley as the
Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the
affected area.
FEMA said additional designations may be made at a later date if
requested by the state and warranted by the results of further damage
assessments.
Readout of President's Briefing on Response and Recovery Efforts to Hurricane Sandy
This morning, the President convened a briefing at that
National Response Coordination Center at FEMA headquarters to receive
the latest update on federal efforts to support state and local response
and recovery activities. At FEMA, the President was joined by Secretary
of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate,
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Health and
Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Education Secretary Arne Duncan,
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, SBA Administrator Karen Mills, Vice
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Winnefeld as well as Deputy Chief
of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco, Deputy Assistant to the President for
Homeland Security Richard Reed, and other senior members of the
President’s team. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Secretary of
Agriculture Tom Vilsack and USNORTHCOM Commander General Jacoby joined
the briefing by phone.
On the call the President received an update from the National
Weather Service, including a forecast on a coastal low pressure system
that could be moving into the area in coming days, and spoke directly
with a number of state and local officials, who also joined by phone,
including Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, New Jersey Governor Chris
Christie, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, as well as Borough
President’s and mayors from across the affected area. This conversation
provided the President and his team another opportunity to discuss
specific challenges with state and local leaders, including issues
related to power generation, fuel challenges, and long term housing
needs among others.
The President made clear that his Administration would continue to
use all available resources to support the deployment of necessary
assets, and directed his team to continue to focus on identifying and
removing any barriers to the movement of these resources. On Thursday,
following a conversation between the President and utility executives,
the Department of Defense airlifted utility resources, including bucket
trucks and other assets, from California to New York to support power
restoration efforts. Yesterday, FEMA announced that the President
directed the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to purchase up to 12 million
gallons of unleaded fuel and up to 10 million gallons of diesel fuel
for distribution in areas impacted by the storm to supplement ongoing
private sector efforts. This purchase will be transported by tanker
trucks and distributed throughout New York, New Jersey and other
communities impacted by the storm. This announcement followed a decision
earlier in the day to provide a temporary blanket waiver to the Jones
Act, to ensure tankers could move oil and refined gas to the New York
area as quickly as possible. On today’s call, following a discussion of
additional resources available to individuals impacted by the storm, the
President also directed SBA Administrator Karen Mills to brief local
officials directly on the low-cost loans available through the FEMA
Disaster Declarations provided to eligible families.
The President thanked the state and local officials on the call for
their hard work, and specifically praised the heroic efforts of the
first responders still on the front lines, and told his team that
continuing to surge all available resources was the administration’s top
priority. The President closed by making clear he expected no letup in
these efforts.
A full list of Administration travel taking place to affected areas today can be found below:
Today, following the briefing Administration officials will visit
storm-damaged communities throughout the affected region, see response
efforts first hand, and make sure that necessary resources are getting
to state and local partners who are still responding and beginning
recovery efforts. Secretary Donovan will visit public housing
developments in the Rockaways and tour Breezy Point, New York, to hear
from state and local officials and see first-hand the damage and
recovery efforts there. Secretary Sebelius will visit with hospital
workers, residents impacted by the storm, and local officials in
Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York. Administrator Mills will join Governor
Malloy and other state and local officials in Norwalk and Bridgeport,
Connecticut, to meet with small business owners and other residents
affected by the storm. Secretary Napolitano will travel to West Virginia
and Long Island, New York to see response and recovery efforts
underway. And Assistant to the President for Homeland Security John
Brennan will join officials from FEMA, the Department of Transportation,
and the Army Corps of Engineers to view impacted areas in Hoboken,
Newark, and Jersey City, New Jersey, as well as Staten Island, New York.
Weekly Address: Recovering and Rebuilding After the Storm
WASHINGTON, DC—In this week’s address, President Obama thanked
the brave first responders and National Guardsmen for their tireless
work through one of the worst storms in our nation’s history, and
reassured the millions of Americans affected by Sandy that our country
will be there for them as we work towards recovery. The President and
his team continue to work with state and local partners to make sure
that all available resources continue to be made available to support
ongoing response and recovery. Already thousands of FEMA personnel and
over ten thousand National Guardsmen are deployed in affected states to
support the Governors and their teams. At the President’s direction,
agencies are moving assets as quickly as possible, ensuring red tape is
not standing in the way of making sure state and local responders have
the federal resources they need. Now it is time for all Americans to
join together so that we can recover, rebuild, and come back stronger
than before.
The audio of the address and video of the address will be available online at www.whitehouse.gov at 6:00 a.m. ET, Saturday, November 3, 2012.
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
The White House
November 3, 2012
This weekend, millions of our fellow Americans are still picking up the pieces from one of the worst storms in our history.
I toured New Jersey on Wednesday with Governor Christie,
and witnessed some of the terrible devastation firsthand. It’s
heartbreaking. Families have lost loved ones. Entire communities have
been wiped away. Even some of the first responders who repeatedly put
themselves in harm’s way to bravely save the lives of others have
suffered losses of their own.
Today, I ask everyone to keep them in your prayers. And
as President, I promise them this: your country will be there for you
for as long as it takes to recover and rebuild.
Throughout the week, I’ve been in constant contact with
governors and mayors in the affected areas, who are doing an excellent
job in extraordinarily difficult circumstances. And we owe the first
responders and National Guardsmen who have been working around the clock
our deepest gratitude.
Our number one concern has been making sure that affected
states and communities have everything they need to respond to and
recover from this storm.
From the earliest hours, I ordered that resources be made
available to states in the path of the storm as soon as they needed
them. And I instructed my team not to let red tape and bureaucracy get
in the way of solving problems – especially when it came to making sure
local utilities could restore power as quickly as possible.
Before the storm hit, FEMA pre-staged emergency response
teams from North Carolina to Maine, and deployed resources like food,
water, and generators up and down the coast. As the storm passed,
thousands of FEMA personnel were on the ground responding to those in
need. And by midweek, the Department of Defense was ready to fly in
cargo planes that could be loaded with trucks and equipment to help
local power companies get up and running faster.
But recovery will be a long, hard road for many communities. There’s a lot of work ahead.
If you’ve been directly impacted by this storm and need
temporary assistance getting back on your feet, you can call
1-800-621-FEMA, or apply at DisasterAssistance.gov. If you know folks
who are still without power, please spread the word and let them know.
And if you don’t live in an affected area and want to help, supporting the Red Cross is the best and fastest way.
This week, we have been humbled by nature’s destructive
power. But we’ve been inspired as well. For when the storm was
darkest, the heroism of our fellow citizens shone brightest.
The nurses and doctors at NYU Medical Center who evacuated fragile newborns, carrying some down several flights of stairs.
The firefighters in Queens who battled an inferno from flooded streets, and rescued people from an apartment building by boat.
The Coast Guard crews from North Carolina who saved a
sinking ship in stormy seas – and their rescue swimmer who, when he
reached those in need, said, “I’m Dan, and I hear you guys need a
ride.”
That’s who we are. We’re Americans. When times are
tough, we’re tougher. We put others first. We go that extra mile. We
open our hearts and our homes to one another, as one American family.
We recover, we rebuild, we come back stronger – and together we will do
that once more. Thanks, God bless you, and God bless America.
Readout of the President’s Calls with State and Local Officials Responding to Sandy
Aboard Air Force One en route to Las Vegas, the President
talked to New York Governor Cuomo about the recovery efforts underway in
his state. The two will convene another call later tonight with other
local officials. FEMA Administrator Fugate will also join the call.
The President also convened conference calls with state and local
elected officials in New Jersey and Connecticut to ensure that federal
partners continue to bring all available resources to bear to support
state and local response efforts and that bureaucratic red tape is not
impeding progress.
The call with New Jersey officials included Governor Christie, the
state’s emergency manager and more than 700 officials from across the
state. The call to discuss Connecticut recovery efforts included
Governor Malloy and the state’s emergency manager. FEMA Administrator
Fugate also participated in both calls.
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