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Obama Signs Disaster Declaration For Bucks County


Plows clear a highway. Credit: PennDOT

Plows clear a highway.
Credit: PennDOT

Bucks County municipalities will be eligible to receive federal reimbursement funding for certain cost from the late January blizzard.

President Barack Obama Thursday signed a disaster declaration that allows state, eligible municipal governments and certain private nonprofit organizations receive reimbursement funding.

Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures for all counties within Pennsylvania.

Newtown Borough officials said that the storm ate up $190,000 out of the towns $250,000 snow removal budget.

Along with Bucks County, the president’s declaration also includes Berks, Chester, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton Philadelphia, Schuylkill and several other counties.


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