Document ID: FEMA-2019-0001-0194
Agency: fema
Document Type: Notice
Title: Notice of Adjustment of Disaster Grant Amounts
Posted Date: 2019-10-16T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 16, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 55326]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22472]

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Federal Emergency Management Agency

[Docket ID FEMA-2019-0001]

Notice of Adjustment of Disaster Grant Amounts

AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, DHS.

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: FEMA gives notice of an adjustment to the threshold for Small 
Project subgrants made to state, tribal, and local governments and 
private nonprofit facilities for disasters declared on or after October 
1, 2019.

DATES: This adjustment applies to major disasters and emergencies 
declared on or after October 1, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tod Wells, 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, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5207, as amended by the Sandy 
Recovery Improvement Act, Public Law 113-2, provides that FEMA will 
annually adjust the threshold for assistance provided 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 that $131,100 is the threshold for any Small 
Project subgrant made to state, tribal, and local governments or to the 
owner or operator of an eligible private nonprofit facility under 
section 422 of the Stafford Act for all major disasters or emergencies 
declared on or after October 1, 2019.
    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 
that ended in August 2019. This is based on information released by the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics at the U.S. Department of Labor on September 
12, 2019.

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

Pete Gaynor,
Acting Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
[FR Doc. 2019-22472 Filed 10-15-19; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 9111-11-P