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Show rr p r - - - r - t- s-- r r : May 12, 1983 The Page Seven Pyramid Federal assistance outlined for victims By Betty Ramsey PLEASANT With the disaster at Thistle bringing about the establishment of a Federal-Stat- e Disaster Field Office in Provo, questions have arisen as to just what is done for people and businesses at such a time, and who handles the problems. FEMAteam Mike Sweeney of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) this week that there are 31 members of the team in Utah because of the Thistle disaster. Usually the teams, which are sent in from other areas, are made up of several people who are experts in their field. The idea is to get in fast, get the paperwork done and get the aid for the people at the earliest possible moment, Sweeney said. When questioned about the large number of federal workers who were at the temporary Spanish Fork office for the one-da- y sign-up- , Sweeney said, the team is made up of people who know about all phases of loss in a disaster such as housing, Internal Revenue losses for taxes, etc. and they are there so the matters can be taken care of quickly. FEMA team members are on the payroll for a couple of weeks if thats how long it takes and then they are off of it, he said. He had flown in from Idaho to work on the Thistle team. No dollar limit Sweeney said there is no dollar limit on emergency funds and the people in Thistle who lost their property would not have received any more money if they were the only ones affected than they will with other counties involved. MT. 1 fl , Mi rail service through Spanish Fork Canyon. (Photo courtesy of Brandon Ford, Sun Advocate.) Workers from D&RGW work to complete this railroad tunnel through Billie's Mountain in an effort to resume The federal government provides emergency funds to those who are qualified no matter how many there are, he said. Rumors have been circulating that if Carbon and Emery County had not been included there would have been more money for Utah County and that is not so, Sweeney said. Available to people who have suffered a loss are housing loans, small business loans, grants and some unemployment pay, all acof coal and other commodities can cording to eligibility. AdSmall Business The begin flowing once again in and out of central Utah, Savage said. ministration is empowered to make The complaint filed with the court housing loans in a federally declared indicated there are approximately disaster area, Sweeney said. forty land owners who will be Borrowers are charged far lower compensated for the property which rates than through other lending the railroad seeks to condemn in this agencies. The federal government has no legal action. This hearing will not be to determine compensation but only the railroad claim that it needs to occupy this property immediately to deal with the emergency at Thistle. The'b&RGW has asked the court to give the railroad immediate Savage occupancy of the land, said, so it can restore intrastate D&RGW seeks occupancy of 107 acres for rail line around Thistle Is ! PROVO for land Condemnation hearings required to rebuild the railroad around Thistle Lake were held Wednesday, May 11. Acting on a request by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Judge Allen B. Sorensen has set the hearing for 10 a.m. in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District in and for Utah County, Utah County Court House in Provo. The action filed by D&RGW is for condemnation of approximately 107 acres of land needed to reroute the railroad so rail transportation between Price, and points west of Thistle, can be restored as soon as possible, according to E. Scott Savage, a partner in the law firm of Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall and McCarthy, D&RGWs legal counsel. Acquisition of this land, under provisions of Utahs eminent domain law, will allow the railroad to reconstruct about 6.1 miles of its main line along with necessary support facilities so transportation Friday forum EPHRAIM speaker Eberhard, Jr., Friday Forum will be Ernest who will talk on the 13 May How To Become a Celestial Billionaire. He resides in Centerville with his wife and six children. He has had extensive teaching experience at BYU and in the LDS Church Seminaries. He has authored many publications and was the originator of the Aaronic Priesthood Preview and Seminary Home Study topic V: to replace a home at no by the American Red Cross, cost, Sweeney said. The best the law Sweeney said. loan to allows is a Unemployment aid rebuild. An old person or a woman Another way of helping is for alone has an equal opportunity for workers who are unemployed loans. these There is no because of the disaster. Those discrimination on who can get them, workers are eligible for unemhe said. ployment but there is a waiting Business loans period for regular benefits to start. The SBA is also able to make loans The federal government will pay to businessmen without the same unemployment for that waiting repay capability required by a period. He said for example a railroad commercial lender, according to worker out of a job because of the Sweeney. Loans to businesses are given to Thistle disaster will be paid allow them to unemployment from the day his job hang in there during a time of loss caused by the ceased, and then go onto regular disaster, he said. They are not there unemployment after the usual to start a new business or help one waiting period. A similar situation survive which was already failing, would exist for miners should they become unemployed because of the Sweeney said. He said for instance that a grocery disaster. store which could demonstrate with The whole nature of the federal facts and figures that its business assistance program is to help people had dropped off because of the survive following a disaster and to disaster, would be eligible for a get back to normal as soon as loan. Businesses have a nine possible, Sweeney said. month period to show the loss. Of course, there is great trauma Comparison of this years sales to after such an event and disaplast years would be a way such a pointment that all cannot be he store could demonstrate loss, he replaced just as it was, said. said, and while it is a great loss and Grants available everyone sympathizes it cant be The third way of helping people is expected that the federal governthrough grants which do not have to ment can take care of it all. be paid back. Sweeney said grants There will be impact in lots of run up to $5,000 and are given on obscure and subtle ways for a long need. He said a person who lost his time following such a disaster, he home and belongings or either, is said. eligible for up to that amount. Need for a grant is determined by individual interview and is strictly on the basis of need. If a person has 100,000 dollars naturally he should MT. PLEASANT A new not expect the government to give him the money to cover his loss, club, The Goody Cooks, held their Sweeney said. There is no federal first meeting and elected officers. Melanie law to allow that. Smith was named The federal government leans president; Kamala Parry, vice toward being generous if anything, president; Stephanie Johnson, he said. secretary; Julie Peterson, reporter; .Smaller amounts such as the cost and Keri Ellefsen, party chairman. Their leader is Martha Larsen. of a doctors visit, etc, are handled program low-intere- st st Goody Cooks 4-- H SERVICE CLEANERS 0PM will 135-327- W Cmipllefi and interstate rail commerce through this vital Thistle Junction as soon as possible. If the court allows immediate occupancy, the line could be open for use by July I, Savage said, Of course, all property owners will be justly compensated for their land by the railroad as required by State law, Savage concluded. 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