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FEMA has urged a federal arbitration panel to reject claims that the state is owed $492 million for hurricane damages to LSU's Charity Hospital in New Orleans. It's the latest development in a fight over funds that are key to LSU's finance plans for construction of a new $1.2 billion academic medical center.
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Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano announced Monday that Southern University at New Orleans will receive an additional $32 million to help rebuild...
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A federal bill signed into law in late June directs FEMA to cover 100 percent of debris-removal and emergency-protection costs each parish incurred because of Hurricane Ike. It also increases FEMA reimbursement for Ike-related repair work from 75 percent to 90 percent.
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The Biloxi City Council was set to vote Tuesday on setting a deadline for 41 households to move out of trailers FEMA supplied after Hurricane Katrina, despite opposition from human rights organizations and the ACLU.
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The federal government is giving New Orleans' Sewerage & Water Board more than $10 million to lift eight pumping stations above the base flood elevation, the height at which the stations should be protected from flooding caused by a 100-year rainfall or storm surge event.
The agency is using the advisory base flood elevations, meaning the new heights are based on the potential for flooding with an incomplete levee system.
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Thursday that DHS is shutting down FEMA's Gulf Coast Recovery Office, a special oversight office set up in New Orleans after Katrina to oversee recovery in the region.
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Lousiana's congressional lawmakers called on the Obama administration Monday to give the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding expanded powers to cut through bureaucracy and work more directly with the White House.
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FEMA is reassigning the chief of staff of its New Orleans hurricane recovery office while allegations of misconduct are investigated.
Acting FEMA Administrator Nancy Ward said during a visit to New Orleans on Friday that she won't make any major staffing changes until the investigation of Doug Whitmer's office is complete.
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Lawmakers blasted the heads of the government's Gulf Coast recovery effort Wednesday for delays that have stalled key projects and left billions of dollars in federal aid unspent.
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