NEW ORLEANS – A new federal government report says Louisiana could have gotten a much bigger share of a $388 million program testing alternatives to trailers as disaster housing if FEMA had given states more time and more information about how proposals would be rated.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency also should have set minimum and maximum amounts for its grants – something that could have let it support 10 projects rather than the five it chose, the Government Accounting Office said in a report this week.The report said Louisiana could have received more than $140 million for three projects, rather than the $74.5 million for one project that has not yet broken ground.
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GAO: FEMA could have given La. more Katrina cottage cash
October 4, 2007
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