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Legal counsel: state emergency-management agreement could help municipal utilities with hurricane-restoration costs

Fort Pierce Utility Board · October 1, 2024
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Summary

At the Oct. 1 meeting FPUA legal counsel said staff reached terms with the Florida Division of Emergency Management that could allow the division to pay restoration costs for municipal electric utilities and then seek FEMA reimbursement, potentially relieving municipal utilities of direct restoration cost burden in certain storms.

During the meeting’s announcements, the utility’s legal counsel described a recently reached agreement with the Florida Division of Emergency Management that could allow the division to step in to pay hurricane restoration costs for municipal…

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