La. gives back much of FEMA money

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BATON ROUGE - The Department of Health and Hospitals has declined the bulk of $352 million in disaster assistance handed to the state by the Federal Emergency Management Agency late last week, with agency officials saying that they spent only about $10 million during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.


The $352 million showed up in a list of projects approved by FEMA totaling $457 million, which was deposited by the federal government last week in the state of Louisiana's bank account. But the state health department has taken only the roughly $10 million that they are entitled to so far, said Bob Johannessen, the spokesman for the agency.

"We are obligated under federal law to return that money. That is what we did," said Johannessen, who noted that the agency is supposed to take only what it has actually spent.

Story from The Times-Picayune this morning.

Remember, these are our tax dollars that FEMA is throwing around!!
Hope they can return that money before Blanco, Landreau, Nagin, etc get their grubby hands on it.

 

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Good for them!