DES MOINES, IOWA (September 11, 2020) — Governor Kim Reynolds yesterday received word that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has made assistance available to public entities and non-profits in seven additional counties as well as the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa that were impacted by the August 10 derecho.
Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hardin, Iowa, Jackson, and Washington counties have been added to a Presidential Disaster Declaration issued by President Trump on August 17, 2020, which made public entities and select non-profits in 16 counties eligible to apply for the federal Public Assistance Program. The counties that were approved for Public Assistance funding in the Aug. 17 declaration are: Benton, Boone, Cedar, Clinton, Dallas, Jasper, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Marshall, Muscatine, Polk, Poweshiek, Scott, Story, and Tama.
The Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa received a separate Presidential Disaster Declaration from President Trump yesterday which made the tribe eligible to apply for the federal Public Assistance Program.
Public Assistance funding may be used for emergency work and the repair or replacement of disaster-damaged facilities.
