FEMA Awards $23 Million to Kansas for COVID-19 Response
The
The grant funds, awarded by
The money reimburses 75% of eligible costs associated with buying essential Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and medical supplies and equipment during the months of March and April. The supplies include medical gowns, surgical masks, face shields, safety glasses and gloves, disinfectant, respirators and viral swab collections kits. The remaining 25% is paid by the grant recipient.
"Our close partnership with the state of
The Public Assistance program provides grants at a 75/25 cost share to state and local governments, tribal nations and certain non-profit entities to assist with eligible costs associated with responding to and recovering from disasters.
For COVID-19,
The current disaster declaration for
The disaster declaration also authorizes Direct Federal Assistance to help governmental entities and tribal nations with certain COVID-related actions that the states, localities and tribes themselves cannot undertake at this time for some reason, such as the inability to use their own personnel to perform a function or an inability to contract with someone else to do the work.
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