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###### Department of Homeland Security

###### Federal Emergency Management Agency

# AGENCY:

Federal Emergency Management Agency, Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate, Department of Homeland Security.

# ACTION:

Notice.

# SUMMARY:

FEMA gives notice that we are increasing the statewide per capita threshold for recommending cost share adjustments for disasters declared on or after January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2004.

# DATES:

*Effective Date:*                         February 4, 2004.                         *Applicability Date:*                         This notice applies to major disasters declared on or after January 1, 2004.                    

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Magda Ruiz, Recovery Division, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-2705.

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

                    Pursuant to 44 CFR 206.47, FEMA annually adjusts the statewide per capita threshold that is used to recommend an increase of the Federal cost share from 75 percent (75%) to not more than 90 percent (90%) of the eligible cost of permanent work under section 406 and emergency work under section 403 and section 407 of the Stafford Act. The adjustment to the threshold is based on the Consumer Price Index for All Urban                           ( print page 5367)                        Consumers published annually by the U.S. Department of Labor. For disasters declared on January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2004, the qualifying threshold is $106 of State population.                

We base the adjustment on an increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers of 1.9 percent for the 12-month period ended in December 2003. The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor released the information on January 15, 2004.

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora Brown Fund Program; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 97.033, Disaster Legal Services Program; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management Assistance; 97.048, Individual and Household Housing; 97.049, Individual and Household Disaster Housing Operations; 97.050 Individual and Household Program-Other Needs, 97.036, Public Assistance Grants; 97.039, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.)

Michael D. Brown,

Under Secretary, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security.

[FR Doc. 04-2261 Filed 2-3-04; 8:45 am]

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