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September 8, 2009
MCCASKILL GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Over $28 million in federal grant money for flood and ice storm damage repairs
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will provide the state of Missouri with $28,240,930.69 in federal grant money to help repair damage resulting from the severe ice storms that swept through Southeast Missouri in January 2009 and recent flooding on the Finely River in Christian County. According to FEMA, the state of Missouri is responsible for distributing the funding to the recipients. Specifically, the grants will go to: -
Ozark Border Electric Cooperative ($14,736,118.21) will receive two grants to cover repairs and emergency support costs. -
$13,687,811.21 will go to repair damage to the electrical distribution system by ice and fallen trees and limbs, including electric utility poles, cross arms, transformers, reclosers and conductors. -
$1,048,306.97 will reimburse the costs of the emergency call center activated by the organization during the disaster to answer outage and damage report calls, dispatch crews, direct emergency switching, deliver materials, and deliver supplies to work crews. -
SEMO Electric Cooperative ($12,334,360.55) will receive funding to support repair of the damaged electrical systems, including electrical poles, transformers, cross arms, reclosers and regulators. -
Christian County ($1,170,451.93) will receive funding to support the acquisition and removal of a commercial structure damaged by flooding from the Finely River in order to reduce the threat of future damage, loss of life and to reduce emergency response and evacuation costs associated with flooding. McCaskill believes that federal grants and loans are a positive alternative to earmarks, which in the past have frequently had too little accountability. Competitive merit and need based federal grants and low-interest government loans bring federal assistance to Missouri in an honest and fiscally responsible manner.
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