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THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                        (Little Rock, Arkansas)
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For Immediate Release                                  January  17, 2001

                PRESIDENT CLINTON DECLARES AN EMERGENCY
                    EXISTS IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS

     President Clinton today declared an emergency exists in the State

of Illinois and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by record/near record snow on December 10-31, 2000.

The President's action makes Federal funding available to affected local governments in the counties of Bureau, Cook, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, Fulton, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, Livingston, Marshall, McDonough, McHenry, McLean, Stark, Will, and Winnebago.

FEMA intends to provide assistance for emergency protective measures undertaken to save lives, protect public health and safety, and property. The assistance will be provided for a period of 48 hours.

James L. Witt, Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), named James Roche as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.

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