GOVERNOR'S OFFICE Amendment to Proclamation of Disaster Emergency [35 Pa.B. 3656] June 16, 2005
Whereas, on September 17, 2004, I declared a State of Disaster Emergency in Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, and Washington Counties due to widespread and unusually severe storms, heavy rain, high winds and flooding, which struck the counties and caused extensive damage to roads, streets, bridges, private homes, and businesses and posed other adverse life safety impacts upon the general population of the counties; and
Whereas, on September 18, 2004, I amended said proclamation to include Beaver, Bedford, Bradford, Centre, Clarion, Clinton, Clearfield, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fulton, Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mifflin, Monroe, Northampton, Northumberland, Perry, Pike, Schuylkill, Snyder, Susquehanna, Union, Wayne, Westmoreland, and Wyoming Counties; and
Whereas, on September 19, 2004, I amended said proclamation to include Blair, Bucks, Cameron, Carbon, Greene, Lehigh, Huntingdon, and Somerset Counties; and
Whereas, on September 21, 2004, I amended said proclamation to include Franklin, Lebanon, Montour, Tioga, and York Counties; and
Whereas, on October 6, 2004, I amended said proclamation to include Chester, Crawford, Delaware, Lawrence, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and Sullivan Counties; and
Whereas, on December 16, 2004, I amended said proclamation to extend the period of the state of disaster emergency to March 16, 2005; and
Whereas, on March 16, 2005, I amended said proclamation to extend the period of the state of disaster emergency to June 16, 2005.
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. as amended), I do hereby amend my Proclamation of September 17, 2004, as follows:
1. The period of the state of disaster emergency is extended from June 16, 2005, to September 16, 2005.
2. I hereby direct that the other operational provisions of the September 17, 2004, Proclamation that remain applicable to the current emergency circumstances in the counties shall continue in full force and effect.
3. This amendment to proclamation shall take effect immediately.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Governor, at the city of Harrisburg, this sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord, two thousand and five, and of the Commonwealth, the two hundred and twenty-ninth.
Governor
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 05-1256. Filed for public inspection July 1, 2005, 9:00 a.m.]
