Predisaster Assistance for Eucalyptus Trees in California: Hearing, Ninety-third Congress, First Session on S. 1697 ...

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Page 49 - State and local governments to meet the effects of enemy attack. § 1710.4 Requests for Federal assistance. (a) Upon the occurrence or threat of a catastrophe within a State which, in the opinion of its Governor...
Page 105 - Major disaster means any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, drought, fire, explosion, or other catastrophe in any part of the United States which, in the determination of the President, causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under...
Page 105 - ... relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby, and with respect to which the Governor of any State in which such catastrophe occurs or threatens to occur certifies the need for Federal disaster assistance...
Page 48 - Major disaster" means any flood, drought, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe in any part of the United States which, in the determination of the President, is or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant disaster assistance by the Federal Government to supplement the efforts and available resources of States...
Page 48 - Federal agency" means any department, independent establishment, Government corporation, or other agency of the executive branch of the Federal Government...
Page 105 - ... in any part of the United States, which in the determination of the President causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under this Act to supplement the efforts and available resources of States, local governments, and disaster relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby.
Page 52 - President is authorized to provide assistance on a temporary basis in the form of mortgage or rental payments to or on behalf of individuals and families who, as a result of financial hardship caused by a major disaster, have received written notice of dispossession or eviction from a residence by reason of foreclosure of any mortgage or lien, cancellation of any contract of sale, or termination of any lease, entered into prior to such disaster.
Page 105 - ... storm, flood, high water, winddriven water, tidal wave, earthquake, drought, fire, or other catastrophe which, in the determination of the Administrator, FDAA. threatens to be of severity and magnitude sufficient to warrant disaster assistance by the Federal Government. This assistance will be used to avert or lessen the effects of such disaster before its actual occurrence.
Page 51 - Officer, and after a survey of available facilities by private, local, State, and Federal agencies, as appropriate. (b) Assistance for temporary housing with respect to a particular major disaster shall be limited to the minimum required to provide shelter within a...
Page 65 - said a young lady recovering from the general laugh, did you make all that yourself? ' 'Yes, Lucy,' — throwing himself back in his chair and shaking with laughter ; ' all myself, child ; all my own thunder. Do you think, when I am about to make a joke, I send for my neighbours C.

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