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September 29, 2004
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Deadline Extended for Museums in Declared Disaster Areas

Conservation Project Support Program

 

 

The deadline for the IMLS Conservation Project Support program has been
extended from October 1 to October 15 for museums in the following
counties that have been declared disaster areas by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.

 

2004 Federally Declared Disaster Areas As of 9/29/04

 

Alabama Counties

Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun,
Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Coffee, Coosa, Conecuh, Covington,
Crenshaw, Cullman, Dale, Dallas, Elmore, Escambia, Etowah, Fayette,
Franklin, Geneva, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Lamar, Lawrence, Lee,
Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Marshall, Marion, Mobile, Monroe, Montgomery,
Perry, Pickens, Pike, Shelby, St. Clair, Sumter, Talladega, Tallapoosa,
Tuscaloosa, Walker, Washington, Wilcox, and Winston.

 

Florida Counties

Alachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Calhoun, Citrus, Clay,
Columbia, DeSoto, Dixie, Duval, Escambia, Flagler, Franklin, Gadsden,
Gilchrist, Glades, Gulf, Hamilton, Hardee, Hendry, Hernando, Highlands,
Hillsborough, Holmes, Indian River, Jackson, Jefferson, Lake, Leon,
Levy, Liberty, Madison, Manatee, Marion, Martin, Nassau, Okaloosa,
Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam,
Santa Rosa, Sarasota, Seminole, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Sumter, Suwannee,
Taylor, Union, Volusia, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington.

 

Georgia Counties

Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Banks, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb,
Bleckley, Brantley, Brooks, Butts, Calhoun, Camden, Candler, Carroll,
Charlton, Cherokee, Clinch, Cobb, Coffee, Colquitt, Cook, Crawford,
Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Decatur, DeKalb, Dodge, Dooly, Dougherty, Early,
Echols, Elbert, Emanuel, Evans, Fannin, Forsyth, Franklin, Fulton,
Gadsden, Gilmer, Glynn, Grady, Greene, Gulf, Habersham, Hancock, Harris,
Hart, Houston, Irwin, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Johnson, Jones, Lamar, Lanier,
Laurens, Long, Lowndes, Lumpkin, Macon, Madison, McIntosh, Miller,
Monroe, Montgomery, Peach, Pickens, Pike, Pulaski, Putnam, Rabun,
Schley, Spalding, Sumter, Talbot, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Taylor, Telfair,
Thomas, Tift, Toombs, Towns, Treutlen, Turner, Twiggs, Upson, Ware,
Wayne, Washington, Webster, Wheeler, White, Wilcox, Wilkes, Wilkinson,
and Worth.

 

Louisiana Counties (Parishes)

Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St.
Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa,
Terrebonne, and Washington.

 

Mississippi Counties

Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson,
Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lowndes,
Marion, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Pearl River, Perry, Smith, Stone,
Walthall, and Wayne.

 

North Carolina Counties

Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon,
Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania, Watauga,
and Yancey.

 

Puerto Rico

All Commonwealth municipalities in Puerto Rico.

 

Pennsylvania Counties

Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Bucks, Butler,
Cameron, Carbon, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia,
Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Green, Huntingdon, Indiana,
Jefferson, Juniata, Lackawanna, Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming,
Mifflin, Monroe, Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, Perry, Pike,
Schuylkill, Snyder, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Washington, Wayne,
Westmoreland, Wyoming, and York.

 

West Virginia Counties

Berkeley, Brooke, Cabell, Hancock, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Marshall,
Mason, Morgan, Ohio, Pleasants, Tyler, Wetzel, Wirt and Wood.

 

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