{"id":6319,"date":"2022-03-15T11:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:46:36","slug":"news-release-deadline-is-thursday-to-apply-for-kona-low-public-assistance-aid-governments-private-nonprofits-may-be-eligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/news-release-deadline-is-thursday-to-apply-for-kona-low-public-assistance-aid-governments-private-nonprofits-may-be-eligible\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS RELEASE: Deadline Is Thursday To Apply For Kona Low Public Assistance Aid; Governments, Private Nonprofits May Be Eligible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 15, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Release No. 2022-016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HONOLULU<\/strong> \u2014 The deadline is <strong>Thursday, March 17, 2022<\/strong>, for state and local governments and private nonprofits in O\u2018ahu and the County of Maui to apply for federal emergency grants related to the December Kona Low storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Feb. 15 signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/press-release\/20220215\/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-major-declaration-hawaii\">Major Disaster Declaration<\/a> covering damage resulting from the strong, spinning weather system that produced repeated bands of severe storms, flooding, and landslides from Dec. 5-10, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Declaration DR-4639 covers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-07\/fema_public-assistance-fact-sheet_10-2019_0.pdf\">Public Assistance<\/a> for emergency work and repair or replacement of disaster-damaged infrastructure and facilities in the City and County of Honolulu and in Maui County, including Moloka\u2018i and Lana\u2018i. Governments (including special taxing districts) and private nonprofits that perform government-like services may apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hawai\u2018i Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) is coordinating with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to manage Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation grants and applications. Additional information about the grants is <a href=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/news\/dec-2021-hawaii-severe-storms-flooding-and-landslides-dr-4639-hi\/\">available on the HI-EMA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applicants or potential applicants with additional questions should contact HI-EMA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For the City and County of Honolulu please contact Cara Binger, cara.binger@hawaii.gov, or Peter Kawamura, peter.kawamura@hawaii.gov.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For the County of Maui please contact Daniel Trexler, daniel.l.trexler@hawaii.gov, or Julie Fujimoto, julie.m.fujimoto@hawaii.gov.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FEMA application portal will not accept Requests for Public Assistance for this incident that are submitted after 5 p.m. HST on March 17, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"># # #<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adam Weintraub<br>\nCommunication Director<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">adam.b.weintraub@hawaii.gov<br> 808-620-5417<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 15, 2022 Release No. 2022-016 HONOLULU \u2014 The deadline is Thursday, March 17, 2022, for state and local governments and private nonprofits in O\u2018ahu and the County of Maui [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"8199,6189,6062,5989,8238,3322","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[224,354,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-severe-weather-flooding-events","category-354","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15561,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/hiema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}