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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release December 17, 1998

      PRESIDENT CLINTON RELEASES $102.2 MILLION OF EMERGENCY FUNDS
         FOR HURRICANE GEORGES AND OTHER TROPICAL STORM VICTIMS

Today, President Clinton released $102.2 million of emergency supplemental funding included for the Army Corps of Engineers in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999. These funds will allow the Corps of Engineers to carry out critical dredging activities and other repairs needed to maintain safe channels at dozens of navigation projects in the States of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, and in Puerto Rico that were damaged by Hurricane Georges and other tropical storms.

Of the total amount available, funds are distributed as follows:

Louisiana: $ 72.8 million

Puerto Rico: $ 11.0 million

Alabama: $ 10.8 million

Florida: $ 3.7 million

Mississippi: $ 3.5 million

Virgin Islands: $ .4 million

TOTAL: $102.2 million

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