Governor M. Jodi Rell said that she will appeal the Obama administration’s denial Tuesday of her request for individual aid to homeowners, renters and employers hurt by last month’s heavy storms and flooding.<\/p>\n
“The storms that battered our state last month left a trail of astonishing devastation in their wake – crushed cars, homes struck by trees, week-long power outages and staggering flooding,” Rell said. “This decision is not only disappointing – it’s wrong, and I will appeal it.”<\/p>\n
President Obama Friday approved Rell’s request for a “major disaster declaration” allowing financial aid to the state and municipal governments in Fairfield, Middlesex and New London counties.<\/p>\n
But Rell also had made a broader request covering New Haven and Windham counties in addition to the other three. She sought federal aid for individuals in those five counties, in which her office said 1,315 homes and 116 business suffered estimated damages of $10.6 million.<\/p>\n
The broader request was denied Tuesday. A Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator told Rell in a letter that preliminary assessments in the five counties “revealed that the damage to the private sector was not of the severity and magnitude to warrant the designation of individual assistance under the major disaster declaration. … This denial may be appealed within 30 days.”<\/p>\n
That’s what Rell will do. “I have directed our state emergency management officials to immediately gather whatever information may be needed to further support our application for assistance,” Rell said. “I will also work with our Congressional delegation and with [FEMA] to continue pursuing this matter until all avenues for aid are exhausted.”<\/p>\n
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