Report of the Joint Federal-State Action Committee to the President of the United States and to the Chairman of the Governors' Conference: Progress Report, Issue 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957 |
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Page 22 - President to provide assistance (a) by utilizing or lending, with or without compensation therefor, to States and local governments their equipment, supplies, facilities, personnel, and other resources, other than the extension of credit under the authority of any Act...
Page 15 - Leave to private initiative all the functions that citizens can perform privately; use the level of government closest to the community for all public functions it can handle...
Page 24 - To designate functions which the states are ready and willing to assume and finance that are now performed or financed wholly or in part by the federal government; "2.
Page 9 - Meetings of the Committee of Officials on Migratory Farm Labor of the Atlantic Seaboard States.
Page 17 - Act, and shall give assurance of expenditure of a reasonable amount of the funds of the government of such State, local governments therein, or other agencies, for the same or similar purposes with respect to such catastrophe...
Page 19 - Opposed though I am to needless Federal expansion, since 1953 I have found it necessary to urge Federal action in some areas traditionally reserved to the States. In each instance State inaction, or inadequate action, coupled with undeniable national need, has forced emergency Federal intervention.
Page 17 - 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...
Page 18 - Congress to provide an orderly and continuing means of assistance by the Federal Government to States and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to alleviate suffering and damage resulting from major disasters, to repair essential public facilities in major disasters, and to foster the development of such State and local organizations and plans to cope with major disasters as may be necessary.
Page 17 - 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 and local governments in alleviating the damage, hardship, or suffering caused thereby...
Page 22 - Performing on public or private lands protective and other work essential for the preservation of life and property, clearing debris and wreckage...