U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Dr. Basil Gooden and USDA Rural Development State Director for Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands Lakeisha Hood Moise today announced that USDA has selected projects in Florida, nine additional states and Puerto Rico to move forward in the awards process to repair or replace essential community facilities that were damaged by disasters in calendar years 2022 or 2023.
In Florida, the Hendry Regional Medical Center will use a grant to install an emergency back-up generator for its Convenient Care Center in LaBelle the ability to continue to provide much needed health care services to rural residents in the event of an unplanned extended power outage and/or an emergency event which might cause a power outage, such as occurred in 2022 with Hurricane Ian.
"We are proud to assist rural communities, like Hendry County, to recover economically through improved infrastructure," said Hood Moise. "Increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change through this type of economic support is critical to the rebuilding process in rural areas."
The projects selected to move forward in the process will also benefit disaster impacted communities in California, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont and Puerto Rico.
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