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On the recordMay 9, 1996
at issue here is not a matter of the insurance or anybody trying to scam the system. What has happened here, the Federal agency--by the way, I want to say FEMA did a good job in representing people when the President declared a disaster--but what has happened is someone in FEMA said, ``Okay, you bring the trailers back.'' This has nothing to do with an insurance measure. ``You bring them back, take the piece of ground and build a 12-foot cinder block foundation, put it up on top of there and you can come back.'' So if they do not do that, the entire city of Wheeling, WV, the entire city of Powhatan, OH, lose all their aid unless they make people do that. It is not a matter of insurance or whether they had it or not. It is a matter of whether they took the trailer out, away from harm's way, and took it back. They cannot physically place it on their own land unless a 12-foot cinder block foundation has been built.
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Bob Ney
Ohio

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Discussing FEMA's requirements for disaster aid related to trailer placements.

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