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USDA Provides More Food Assistance to Southern California
USAgNet - 10/29/2007
Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner approved the state of California's request to operate a Disaster Food Stamp
Program in San Bernardino and is prepared to approve Riverside County. Both programs will run through November 20. This
is in addition to the DFSP approved Thursday for San Diego County.
"The Agriculture Department joins many other government agencies in providing both direct fire fighting support and assistance
to individuals impacted by the fires," said Conner. "We will continue to work closely with state and local officials in California to
help meet their needs."
The USDA Forest Service (FS), in conjunction with other responding interagency state and federal agencies, is mobilizing five
Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams. Members of these teams will assess threats to the burned areas, including
potential mudslides, and will identify stabilization and rehabilitation needs for the land.
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is dispatching Damage Survey Assessment (DSA) teams to the
burn areas to determine damage to natural resources, including impairments to watersheds as a result of the fires. The surveys
will begin after safety officials give NRCS permission to enter those areas. DSAs in Los Angeles and Ventura County are
expected to begin at the end of next week. Other county DSA's will begin in approximately 10-14 days. USDA will not begin
crop loss assessments until all human needs are met and the area is determined to be safe.
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