WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump signed an order Friday increasing the federal reimbursement for the damage that occurred in the June 2016 flood from 75 percent to 90 percent.
The damage recently topped the threshold for the additional 25 percent when FEMA awarded funds for the Nicholas County school replacement projects.
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito and Gov. Jim Justice each asked Trump to amend the original June 25, 2016 disaster declaration.
The additional funds will come in the area of public assistance, what the state, county and municipalities incurred in flood costs.