03/07/2012
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"The Village of Nutok on December 24 applied for a presidential declaration of major disaster."
"Both of these communities have recently applied for major disaster declarations due to severe storms, flooding."
"Would you be in a position to help us divine what we could do to make it more efficient, to make it a more simplified process?"
"We look at this as one way to gain flexibility and it has not been raised in this discussion yet this morning."