He had joined seven others in signing an open letter to residents of the disaster area.
President Obama declared American Samoa a major disaster area, ordering federal aid to supplement local efforts.
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In 1995, I was a volunteer in the disaster area following the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
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There are already Disaster Area Declarations from Maryland to Massachusetts in place.
Now it solicits members for donations whenever it mobilizes to a disaster area.
To find out if your county has been declared a drought disaster area, view SBA's current disaster declarations page.
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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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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There were reports that army-led rescue workers had difficulty accessing the disaster area and were hampered by a lack of equipment.
Florida is virtually one major disaster area from top to bottom.
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David Satter recently published an article in National Review that make an extraordinarily forceful case that Russia is an economic disaster area.
"We are on the cusp, really, of that full-speed rebuild, " he said from the high-rise city council building near the downtown disaster area.
On Saturday, President George W. Bush declared a disaster area in 28 counties around Houston, making federal emergency aid available to the region.
Earlier, officials in Prague declared about a third of the country a disaster area, and several border crossings with Poland and Germany were closed.
Affiliate with existing non-profit organizations before coming to the disaster area.
"There is no specific designation outside of a disaster period that says we have to have sustained properties going to the disaster area, " Wiggins said.
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In the Haute-Pyrenees departement of France, there is anger that the area has been excluded from France's officially-designated disaster area, reducing the aid available to farmers.
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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Some 20, 000 soldiers and police arrived at the disaster area to help with the relief effort, and 30, 000 more were on the way, the Defense Ministry told Xinhua.
The disaster area is even divided into five named districts.
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).
The President has declared Puerto Rico a major 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.
"The Marcal river is dead, " said Tibor Dobson, spokesman of the Hungarian Disaster Management Agency - a reference to a smaller river which flows north from the disaster area towards the Danube.
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.
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.
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