In 1995, I was a volunteer in the disaster area following the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
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Hitoshi works for Polaris Images, a New York photo agency, and has spent the last several days in the disaster area.
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To summarize the Proposed Project aims at alleviating poverty through craft enterprise development in 2 villages in District Bahawalpur, one of which is located in the Disaster area of Cholistan and thus also aims at mitigating risk of fragile communities and supporting alternate means of livelihood to conserve water resources.
While President Obama said Thursday that the federal government is in charge of the disaster area, they have no answers in stopping the leak, and they are relying on BP and their expertise to get this done.
The concept should then lead to the development of maps to be technically specified and made available to the selected end-users who will have to test the products and deploy them in order to achieve higher societal benefits in the area of disaster risk prevention and reduction.
Health risks in the disaster-ridden area are seemingly everywhere, from diarrhea-causing organisms in the water now to snakes that could have been driven out by the water and may be more likely to bite people.
However, if the loss is in a federally declared disaster area, you may choose to treat the loss as having occurred in the year immediately preceding the tax year in which the disaster happened by filing an amended return.
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They are also victims of the disaster because they live in the area and have lost homes and family members.
Children who live in an area affected by the Chernobyl disaster have visited Warwick Castle as part of a UK holiday.
The IRS and state taxing authorities give further concessions to taxpayers when the casualty occurs in a federally declared disaster area (most areas affected by Hurricane Sandy qualify).
Within this framework, NIEM and the Centre will focus on research and training efforts to provide targeted training to education managers, university students and school principals in the area of climate change and disaster risk reduction.
He had joined seven others in signing an open letter to residents of the disaster area.
Now Russia was an absolute disaster area in 1998, so the fact that its economy has doubled in size since then should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Earlier, officials in Prague declared about a third of the country a disaster area, and several border crossings with Poland and Germany were closed.
Scott County set up a Disaster Relief Fund for all affected communities in the area.
Efforts are underway to estimate the total damage which is thought to be in the tens of millions of dollars and to request that the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing declares Wawa a disaster area.
When disaster strikes, contractors flood the area to cash in on the rebuilding effort.
She also suggested that exploiting oil reserves in the area was not a realistic option as a spill would be an ecological disaster without access to logistical support from Argentina.
On Saturday, President George W. Bush declared a disaster area in 28 counties around Houston, making federal emergency aid available to the region.
Additionally, affected taxpayers in a federally declared disaster area may be able to claim a casualty loss related to the disaster on a federal income tax return.
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The fee for copies of tax returns may be waived if you are in an area declared a federal disaster area.
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It will also encourage the population to remain in place, and may even attract others to the area, leaving them all vulnerable to the next natural disaster, which is as likely to be a severe drought as further flooding.
Thus a disruption in component and end product supply due to a natural or man-made disaster may spread much further than the area of initial damage.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Florida and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Hurricane Isaac during the period of August 27-29, 2012.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Utah and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by a severe storm and flooding on September 11, 2012.
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Oklahoma and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, tornadoes, and straight-line winds on April 14, 2011.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Vermont and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Tropical Storm Irene beginning on August 29, 2011, and continuing.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Florida and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by Tropical Storm Debby beginning on June 23, 2012, and continuing.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Oklahoma and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by the Freedom Wildfire during the period of August 3-14, 2012.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Wisconsin and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms and flooding during the period of June 19-20, 2012.
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