Guess who is STILL holding up post-Katrina progress?
on June 25th, 2007 at 2:12 am(
AP) NEW ORLEANS – Federal officials are still waiting for a list of streets damaged by Hurricane Katrina that qualify for federal assistance.
New Orleans has until July 31 to send the list to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Frustration among federal officials has risen since Mayor Ray Nagin, in his May 30 State of the City address, criticized FEMA. He said the city’s post-Katrina streets are in poor shape and “crumbled under the weight of tons of floodwaters. Shockingly, FEMA has de-obligated or rejected our request for these critical repairs.”
FEMA officials said they’ve been prepared in recent months to begin project assessments and to start the federal reimbursement process for street damage caused by Katrina. But they say they can’t do their assessments without direction on where damage occurred.
FEMA set up a special street assessment team in January. “What’s their excuse from January ’07 till today?” asked agency spokesman Robert Josephson. (more…)
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