The Federal Emergency Management Agency has added Livingston County, along with Grundy County, to the list of Missouri counties approved for federal disaster assistance as a result of May’s storms, tornadoes and flooding.
The action expands the reach of the assistance that will be available as a result of the June 19 approval of Gov. Jay Nixon’s request for a major disaster declaration by President Barack Obama and means Grundy and Livingston counties will be eligible to receive assistance for damage to public property. They will be eligible for federal funding to pay 75 percent of the approved costs for emergency work and the repair, restoration, reconstruction or replacement of public facilities or infrastructure that were damaged or destroyed. Eligible applicants include state and local governments, other political subdivisions of the State and certain private nonprofits.
Bridge crews and township crews in Livingston County have been working in a combined effort to assess a dollar amount of storm damage. ...........
Chillicothe, Mo. —
