Document ID: FEMA-2012-0002-0107
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Notice of Adjustment of Disaster Grant Amounts
Posted Date: 2012-10-09T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 61423]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-24671]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Notice of Adjustment of Disaster Grant Amounts

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: FEMA gives notice of an increase of the maximum amount for 
Small Project Grants to State and local governments and private 
nonprofit facilities for disasters declared on or after October 1, 
2012.

DATES: Effective Date: October 1, 2012, and applies to major disasters 
declared on or after October 1, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Roche, Recovery Directorate, 
Federal Emergency Management Agency, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 
20472, (202) 646-3834.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act), 42 U.S.C. 5121-5207, 
prescribes that FEMA must annually adjust the maximum grant amount made 
under section 422, Simplified Procedures, relating to the Public 
Assistance program, to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index for 
All Urban Consumers published by the Department of Labor.
    FEMA gives notice of an increase in the maximum amount of any Small 
Project Grant made to the State, local government, or to the owner or 
operator of an eligible private nonprofit facility, under section 422 
of the Stafford Act, to $67,500 for all disasters declared on or after 
October 1, 2012.
    FEMA bases the adjustment on an increase in the Consumer Price 
Index for All Urban Consumers of 1.7 percent for the 12-month period 
ended in August 2012. The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. 
Department of Labor released the information on September 14, 2012.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 97.036, Disaster 
Grants--Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters).)

W. Craig Fugate,
Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2012-24671 Filed 10-5-12; 8:45 am]
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