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National Emergency News (FEMA News Feed) FEMA Delays Rent for Flood Victims in Temporary Housing (KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids) CEDAR RAPIDS — About three dozen Iowa families face a Jan. 1 deadline to begin paying rent on temporary housing they’ve been living in since the June 2008 floods, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said Wednesday. Families in FEMA trailers must begin paying rent Jan. 1 (The Gazette) About three dozen Iowa families face a Jan. 1 deadline to begin paying rent on temporary housing they’ve been living in since the June 2008 floods, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said Wednesday. That’s an extra rent-free month. FEMA announced in October its mobile homes could remain in Iowa through next June, but tenants would [...] FEMA announces change to Flood Insurance requirement (The Fillmore Gazette) Today FEMA announced that all of the changes on the Santa Clara River Valley are on hold until the completion of the Santa Clara River Watershed Flood Insurance Study in 2012. The 1,500 property owners in Fillmore will no longer be required to purchase flood insurance by January 20, 2010. Boone County officials want FEMA maps fixed (Jefferson City News Tribune) COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Columbia area officials say federal flood insurance rate maps based on old data could hurt local property values. Coast schools want $7.27M from FEMA (The Clarion-Ledger) Officials with the Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District will be in Washington on Jan. 5 for an arbitration hearing into their dispute with FEMA over $7 million in damage from Hurricane Katrina. Bay-Wave Schools Want More From FEMA (NBC 15 Mobile) Officials with the Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District will be in Washington on January 5 for an arbitration hearing into their dispute with FEMA over $7 million in damage from... FEMA approves levee (Park Hills Daily Journal) Ste. Genevieve’s big levee has been approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for another 10 years. FEMA sent Ste. Genevieve Levee District III Chairman Vern Bauman a letter earlier this month. The letter said the levee had been accredited by FEMA and that it offered protection from the baseline 100-year flood event. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave the levee an inspection ... Thibodeaux: County is not forcing people from their FEMA trailers (The Orange Leader) During a commissioners’ court meeting on Monday, Orange County Judge Carl Thibodeaux addressed some issues regarding FEMA mobile homes. Recently, some people have said it was the county forcing people out of the FEMA units. WikiLeaks Posts Alleged 9/11 Pager Messages (Gothamist) Yesterday, WikiLeaks began posting "half a million US national text pager intercepts," saying, "The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of our time. We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war." WikiLeaks also says, "Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA ... Cedar Rapids flood debris collection ends tomorrow (The Gazette) The city of Cedar Rapids will end the curbside collection of residential flood debris tomorrow, city officials said today. The service had been provided through funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but that funding will be ending this month. Here’s the news release from the city: The City of Cedar Rapids Solid Waste and Recycling Division [...]