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Hurricane
Rebuilding Presentations Available Online
May 24, 2006
BATON ROUGE
– A series of fact sheets to help people affected by Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita navigate Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) programs and related legal issues during the continuing
rebuilding process are now complimented by five narrated PowerPoint
presentations. The fact sheets and presentations can be found
at http://www.laseagrant.org/comm/magazines.htm
or http://www.lsu.edu/sglegal/pubs/other.htm#fema.
The information sheets
and presentations, developed by the Louisiana Sea Grant Legal
Program, answer questions about the National Flood Insurance Program,
flood elevations, rebuilding after a flood and other reconstruction
matters. The narrated PowerPoints are designed in a simple, non-technical
format to give the general public a basic overview of the rebuilding
issues.
Additional
related information also is available from Louisiana Sea Grant/LSU
AgCenter floodplain management specialist and disaster programs
coordinator Pat Skinner. She can be contacted at (225) 578-2910
or pskinner@agcenter.lsu.edu.
The information sheet and presentation project came about after
Louisiana Sea Grant recognized a need for a plainer explanation
of FEMA reconstruction guidelines. Since its establishment in
1968, Louisiana Sea Grant has worked to promote stewardship of
the state’s coastal resources through a combination of research,
education and outreach programs critical to the cultural, economic
and environmental health of Louisiana’s coastal zone.
The Louisiana Sea Grant
College Program, based at Louisiana State University, is part
of the National Sea Grant Program, a network of 32 programs in
each of the U.S. coastal and Great Lakes states and Puerto Rico.
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