Mississippi to get by with $3 billion less
Tags: mississippi, federal aidFrom Recovery Costs May Be Less Than First Anticipated:
Gov. Haley Barbour said an initial estimate of federal money needed to recover from Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi is less than expected.
He said the request for $38 billion has been decreased to about $33.5 billion by "fine tuning."
Nothing was removed from the recovery package, Barbour said that the amount decreased because some recovery estimates were less than first anticipated…
He was in Washington doing some lobbying last week, and he says that Congress has already allocated $62 billion for AL, MS, and LA. And:
The governor said he will ask Congress to authorize Mississippi to spend part of that money to help people who don't have flood insurance, but whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Katrina.
Barbour said the federal government should take some responsibility because they determine what is considered a flood zone.
