GOVERNOR'S OFFICE [26 Pa.B. 855] Amendment to Proclamation Whereas, on January 20, 1996, I amended my Proclamation of Disaster Emergency of January 7, 1996, in order to add seven additional counties to the designated disaster emergency area and to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to use all available equipment, resources, and personnel of the Department to clear debris and other obstructions from Federal and State highways located in the disaster affected area due to extensive flooding which occurred throughout the Commonwealth beginning on January 19, 1996; and
Whereas, because of the extensive flooding which occurred throughout the Commonwealth, the Department of Transportation needs to perform emergency repair, maintenance, reconstruction, construction and replacement work on numerous damaged highways and bridges and areas adjacent thereto located throughout the Commonwealth;
Now, Therefore, pursuant to the provisions of Subsection 7301(c) of the Emergency Management Services Code (35 Pa.C.S.A. Section 7101 et seq.), I do hereby further amend my Proclamation of January 7, 1996, as follows:
1. I hereby authorize the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to use all available equipment, resources and personnel of the Department, in whatever manner he deems necessary, to ensure that highways, bridges, roadbeds, and related facilities and structures, including Federal-aid highways, that have sustained damage in the disaster affected area are immediately repaired, maintained, reconstructed, or replaced or that new construction is undertaken where necessary. In addition, I hereby waive any laws or regulations that would restrict the ability of the Department to respond immediately and effectively in repairing, maintaining, reconstructing or replacing these damaged highways, bridges, roadbeds, and related facilities and structures, including Federal-aid highways, and areas adjacent thereto, or in undertaking necessary new construction.
2. The limit set forth in 35 Pa.C.S.A. § 7305(b) on the amount of individual and family grants is hereby suspended for the duration of this disaster emergency.
3. This amendment is retroactive to January 7, 1996.
GIVEN under my hand and Great Seal of the Commonwealth, this twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine-hundred and ninety-six, and of the Commonwealth, the two-hundred and twentieth.
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 96-279. Filed for public inspection March 1, 1996, 9:00 a.m.]
