President Obama Approves South Dakota Disaster Declaration
By KSFY Staff
Story Created: Mar 9, 2010 at 6:40 PM CST
President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration that will help South Dakota recover from a Christmas blizzard.
Tuesday’s declaration makes federal aid available to state and local governments and certain nonprofits in affected areas.
The declaration covers 12 counties and two reservations that were hardest hit.
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 winter storm and snowstorm in the counties of Campbell, Clay, Gregory, Jones, Lyman, Mellette, Perkins, Shannon, Todd, Tripp, Turner, and Yankton and the portions of the Pine Ridge Reservation and Rosebud Reservation that lie within the designated counties.
The state estimated the late December blizzard caused more than $1 million in damage.
Damnnnn… It’s about time. I was begining to think that he was Republican.